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Re:Three Nord Stream gas pipelines damaged in one day by tokai on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @07:21AM (#32993875)
I don't see it as smoothing at all. "sent its troops into" is literally the definition of invading. Also the Russo-Ukrainian war started over 8 years ago. Calling the feb. 24. date for day-0 of the invasion is actually smoothing Russians aggregation even more.
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Re:Three Nord Stream gas pipelines damaged in one day by ComodoHacker on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @07:36AM (#32994016)
Troops could be sent for other purposes, though. Like they were sent to Kazakhstan before Ukraine, without invading. So it's kind of smoothing. I'm not sure was it intentional or not.
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Re:Three Nord Stream gas pipelines damaged in one day by Sakos on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @07:43AM (#32994092)
Except there's no need to account for that nuance because we know why Russia "sent their troops" to Ukraine. It was an invasion and they started a war.
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Re:Three Nord Stream gas pipelines damaged in one day by butthatsit on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @10:29AM (#32995666)
You'd be surprised how many people think the opposite. For example in Slovakia more than half of the public blames Ukraine.
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Re:Three Nord Stream gas pipelines damaged in one day by hericium on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @08:18AM (#32994404)
Putin's propaganda during the first hours of war was a rescue operation[1] and you can definitely send troops to help someone.

Wording chosen by the Reuters editor leaves unnecessary room for interpretation imo.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30450498

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