rogue state

noun

1. a state that conducts its policy in a dangerously unpredictable way, disregarding international law or diplomacy

Example Sentences

Dictators and rogue states would be ascendant, nuclear weapons would proliferate, and the president-elect would never make good on his bluster about ending the war in Ukraine in 24 hours.

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“I’ve started to say to governments, you should think of AI systems as kind of like countries that are arriving into the world, and misaligned AI systems as like rogue states,” Clark said.

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Fear of using force against rogue states’ nuclear programs has often paralyzed decision makers until it was too late.

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It then dropped it, deciding it could not run after its presenter went on BBC Radio 4'sToday programme and called Israel 'a rogue state that's committing war crimes and ethnic cleansing and mass murdering Palestinians'.

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In a recent post on X, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy described Democratic-led cities that do not cooperate with the administration’s mass deportation plans as “rogue state actors” that will not receive federal funding.

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