system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: How is a nuclear missile flying over another sovereign nation's airspace not deemed an act of war?
gpt
It could certainly be provocation for a war that other states see as reasonable. What matters isn't the act itself, it is how others respond to it. If nobody wants to make war over it, then it doesn't matter what some legalistic definition might say.