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Cladding terms like these in euphemisms is no accident. Even a child can tell you that war is a bad thing.

But if you don’t call things what they are, and make them sound academic or legal — well then all of a sudden it seems like it must be something elaborate and maybe even complicated.

No no, we’re not invading another country. We are re-evaluating the legality of historical territorial boundaries. Or something like that.