I would agree with you if he would be talking about the border regions alone. But he is (at least in the translations), speaking about the whole countries not being a country because of those border regions. And that is stupid and Oniony.
Border regions not being under the control of the central government is a legitimate thing to criticize the countries for, but not a reason to call them not countries. Otherwise Ukraine would also not be a country by that definition, since it doesn’t control all their regions currently.
I’m not a translator but I’m not going to read into that one noun form. The next sentence refers to certain areas within their borders, and everyone knows exactly where he’s talking about. For the last year there’s been 1,000 rockets a month launched indiscriminately at Israel. Not hard to step out where they’re coming from, right? Before that, it was dozens, hundreds, or sometimes also tousands, months to month.
I’m sure you can find some maps of territory held by terrorists in the region and which countries sponsor and ally with them, and which ones designate them as such. Terrorists don’t get to have a state.
I would agree with you if he would be talking about the border regions alone. But he is (at least in the translations), speaking about the whole countries not being a country because of those border regions. And that is stupid and Oniony.
Border regions not being under the control of the central government is a legitimate thing to criticize the countries for, but not a reason to call them not countries. Otherwise Ukraine would also not be a country by that definition, since it doesn’t control all their regions currently.
I’m not a translator but I’m not going to read into that one noun form. The next sentence refers to certain areas within their borders, and everyone knows exactly where he’s talking about. For the last year there’s been 1,000 rockets a month launched indiscriminately at Israel. Not hard to step out where they’re coming from, right? Before that, it was dozens, hundreds, or sometimes also tousands, months to month.
I’m sure you can find some maps of territory held by terrorists in the region and which countries sponsor and ally with them, and which ones designate them as such. Terrorists don’t get to have a state.