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		wiz21c on Sept 26, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The SR-71 Blackbird Astro-Nav System worked by tra... FTA: > to collect information about hostile and potentially hostile nations using cameras and sensors. I will sound very picky but, well, I'm pretty sure a rather big part of all civilians of all nations are not hostile. So I disagree with the wording. A nation is not hostile. A fraction of it is. This was tuesday's afternoon rant. Thanks for clapping. But well, the SR71 was really impressing when I was a kid, mysterious too.

grotorea on Sept 26, 2023 [–]

I think we all know that in casual use nation, state, country and nation-state are all synonymous.

Or if you'd prefer, the WW2 interpretation of air warfare probably leans towards treating the entire populace as hostile.

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