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Re:Russia to restrict Facebook access for 'censoring' its media by csee on Friday February 25, 2022 @05:10PM (#30472953)
Why do you use the Putin propaganda euphemism "current operation" and not just call it an invasion or war of aggression.
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Re:Russia to restrict Facebook access for 'censoring' its media by LAC-Tech on Friday February 25, 2022 @06:04PM (#30473454)
Because people tend to copy the terminology of the regime they live in, even if they don't agree with it.

We do the same thing. IE on English Wikipedia there's an article 2011 military intervention in Libya. I can't remember many prestigious western news sources calling it an "invasion" - so neither do most of us.

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Re:Russia to restrict Facebook access for 'censoring' its media by InitialLastName on Monday February 28, 2022 @09:49AM (#30500371)
From that article:

> The intervention did not employ foreign ground troops.

I'm no military theorist, but "foreign boots on the ground" is the lay-person's definition of an "invasion". Absent that, it could have been a war, a police action, a military intervention, or a bombing campaign, but it wasn't an "invasion".

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