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 The reason I asked you about English being your first language - aside from using patently incorrect expressions like ""more clearer"", opening a sentence with ""hence"", lack of punctuation, or consistent non-capitalizing of ""I"" as in first person - is the consistent misunderstanding we seem to be having about an elementary grammatical absurdity: since the theater is still within the US borders, the subsequent mentioning of the US should acknowledge that. My optimal solution is to change ""United States"" to ""The rest of the United States"". It is simple, elegantly worded, and solves the issue. EauZenCashHaveIt (I'm All Ears) "