Re: Nations ? was: Pirates and Privateers

> > That is a very, very good question. Ummm... it's a nation to
> > those who recognize it.
> 
> What is it to the other ones?

Take your pick:
- an enemy occupied zone (East Germany to West Germans, even after the	
East German government was nominally established)
- a 'strange object' ['Gebilde'] (ditto)
- a breakaway province (China about Taiwan)
- a figment of imperialist machinations (China about an independent 
Tibet)
- a capitalist puppet regime (North Korea about South Korea)
- the result of Western-Zionist conspiracy (Arabs about Israel)
- a terrorist territory (Russia about Chechnya)
etc.etc.

Greetings
Karl Heinz