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Are you buying military equipment any time you deal with a company that does business with a military? Would "man buys equipment from missile manufacturer Honeywell" be an appropriate description of me having bought an air humidifier from them?

So "paramilitary" is still a clickbaity exaggeration. Their website mentions Target markets such as state DoTs, retailers (specifically Lowe's), oil companies, construction. Hardly a roster of paramilitary forces.

‘Nation-state’ doesn’t mean what you think it means. It’s not a fancy way of saying ‘countries’. It means one small subset of countries such as Japan that are both nations and states at the same time.

Hmmm. I didn't know this.

What are some countries that aren't nations?

For example the UK is not a nation-state because it’s one state but four nations.

Walmart sells guns; that doesn't mean everything they sell is a gun. If these are just cameras, does it matter where they came from?