“State” in International Law means “country.” The United States is actually a federation of individual nation states. Each state in the USA is its own country. The USA exists as a country only because the individual states that comprise it agree to be federated. So, technically, this person - whoever he is - is not wrong to refer to Hawaii as a “country.” Something seems off about this, but remember, there is supposed to be a “gut punch” - we will be taken to a point where all will feel lost, and - at what will feel like the last second - we will he pulled back from “the precipice.” Is this the beginning of the gut punch.

If there are Hawaiians seeing this - DO NOT SURRENDER YOUR WEAPONS.