dear lord, can you please stop calling Manning "she/her". he's a guy, he has a penis, he has a Y chromosome, he has male DNA. nothing about him is a "she"

if he is a she, then im the queen of england.

I also quoted sources at major universities. Anyway, an easy way to refute these United States as a nation-state is this logical proposition. 

- Assume the U.S is a nation-state. If this is true, then why are there sovereign states (50 of them as of today) which separate the nation? This is a contradiction. 

A nation-state contains the whole nation and only that nation. It doesn't divide the nation among many other co-sovereign states. If you look at the period right after the revolution, you'll notice quite explicitly that there was no natural union among the colonies besides their geographical status. That's why the articles of confederation were tried, and that's why the U.S constitution was so contested. As time passed, these U.S became even more diversified with immigration.  

You can look at Musollini's Italy and Nazi Germany to get examples of nationalism rooted in ethnicity. You can look at Serbia's succession from Austro-Hungary for nationalism rooted in history. You could look at modern day sessionist movements, such as Catalonia for how nation-states form from imperial ones. 

Death penalty. 

It's called federation, a lot of nations' form of state is federation, more or less centralized.

BTW Italy and Germany are prone examples of a newly established nations out of multiple states. The fact that Nazi Germany practiced ethnic cleansing doesn't rule out a fact that this was an attempt to build a nation after demise of WW1 on a very shacky ground of combination of Land's that could fell of rather easily dumping all previous efforts in nation-building since Bismarck. Hence the practices of repatriation of volksdeutsche (with very loose definitions of who is "deutsche" and who is not) or Austrian anschluss, which was very welcomed by Austrians. Why? Because they had similar problems after WW1 and dissolution of Austria-Hungary, the crisis of self-identification as a nation. Israel is another fresh expample of nation-building that didn't go too well, tons of such examples. Nationalism was discredited multiple times after all these years obviously.

So, all in all I think the problem of misunderstanding is in the following:

1) Our definitions of nation and ethnicity aren't perfectly aligned.
2) You perceive a nation as a modern person with modern mindset, where nation and nationalism are strictly negative things, descredited multiple times throughout the hsitory (happens with all political doctrines). Doesn't look like you get historical context here.
3) You think the US case is unique, which is true and not true at the same time. True to the degree of historical uniquness of said nation, not true because it could be easily typified and put in box as much as everyone else.

yeah it's just politically convienient for Russia as Snowden can be used as a weapon against the US, but perferably i would want all countries with spying programs and such to just stop now. Russia especially don't look good with Chechnya and the whole anti-gay laws now. 

So the US constitution doesn't count all of a sudden? I mean wouldn't you do the same if you discovered that your job was wrong in it's actions? People had to know about the NSA whether or not the government wanted to say anything. 

The NSA is spying on you, meaning your right to privacy (4th ammendment) is being ignored. Don't that bother you? 

So i guess their activities are illegal but because government does it, it don't seem to matter whether it is legal or not. It's still wrong though. Especially, when your country has a proper constitution to protect such rights. I suggest you learn what your rights are, otherwise they might as well not exist. 

And finally i don't think Manning will have a chance for appeal, he should of ran while he could. 

what alleged war crimes did she expose exactly? the biggest thing i recall from this leaked information was the killing of the reporters who just happened to be with people who had AKs and possibly an RPG.


snowden could be considered a whistleblower i think, but i do not recall anything of that quality being released with the information by this woman.