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the DuPlessis burglary: the Reconfiguration grievance's first compact statement

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the U.S.A.’s Experialistic ‘gift’ or ‘return’ of the so-calledly ‘Reconfigured’ Great Convexity to its northern neighbor and O.N.A.N. ally constituted an intolerable blow to Canadian sovereignty, honor, and hygiene

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The book's first tight statement of the grievance the entire insurgency runs on, and it is deadpan-exact: experialism dressed as a "gift" or "return," the territory rebranded "Reconfigured," the whole coerced transfer smuggled under the vocabulary of O.N.A.N. alliance — and the injury it inflicts is to "sovereignty, honor, and hygiene," the last word quietly making waste-politics the real wound. Every later A.F.R. war aim is a gloss on this sentence's scare-quotes.

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