In fact, we're fighting a war against Russia right now on the premise that they violated those borders by moving into eastern Ukraine. So The US Government takes borders very seriously, obviously not including our own. but as a matter of statecraft and diplomacy, that really, really matters. So you would never use a phrase in an official communication that referred to a place whose territory you couldn't define that would be 100% crazy to do something like that. (38:41–38:47)
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