Tucker Carlson: “We're fighting a war against Russia right now on the premise…”

“So certainly in the modern era, definitely since the fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, you've had clear borders between countries. 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.” (38:36–38:42)

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