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Re:Russia’s apparent resilience is being kept up by policy t... by pandaman on Saturday December 10, 2022 @12:52AM (#33930286)
I don't see how is this possible, are you counting each operation as a separate "invasion" so you get two invasions in Ukraine (2014 and in 2022) for Russia, then I imagine Syria and Georgia? But what is fifth - is it Transnistria/Abkhazia/Ossetia in 1990s? Then the US had 20+ invasions in the same sense (Yugoslavia, multiple ops in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and various countries in Africa) over your lifetime.
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Re:Russia’s apparent resilience is being kept up by policy t... by jcranmer on Saturday December 10, 2022 @01:20AM (#33930421)
Russia invaded Ukraine twice (once in 2014, once this year), Chechnya twice (1994 and 1999), and Georgia once (in 2008).
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Re:Russia’s apparent resilience is being kept up by policy t... by pandaman on Saturday December 10, 2022 @01:34AM (#33930477)
Chechnya is a region of Russia and always has been, how can Russia invade itself? And let's say Chechnya is some kind of independent country that Russia really invaded, in 1994. So you had been born before 1994 and only recall three US invasions since then???
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Re:Russia’s apparent resilience is being kept up by policy t... by tptacek on Saturday December 10, 2022 @02:32AM (#33930749)
Chechnya, apparently, deserves to be part of Russia.
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Re:Russia’s apparent resilience is being kept up by policy t... by foverzar on Monday December 19, 2022 @02:48AM (#34049569)
> Chechnya twice (1994 and 1999)

In 1994 Chechnya was legally a part of Russia. By that principle, are you considering that Ukraine had invaded Donetsk? Not trolling, just wondering if it is a point of principle or doublethink.

In 1999 Chechnya had invaded Russian Dagestan, which triggered a military response - exactly how does this consitute as "Russia invaded"?

> Georgia once (in 2008)

Georgia attacked Russian peacekeeping corps in 2008:

https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/new-report-on-rus...

https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/a-shattered-dream...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/30/georgia-attack...

I am really puzzled by how people are so reinforced in their ignorance, despite facts being easily available for anyone who cares to spend 5 minutes to learn something.

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Re:Russia’s apparent resilience is being kept up by policy t... by foverzar on Monday December 19, 2022 @03:19AM (#34049740)
It is safe to assume that they just never even heard of the half of those US military actions. Ironically, things like "Nothing happened in Tiananmen Square on 4 June 1989" (nothing happened in Yugoslavia, nothing happened in Yemen, nothing happened in Syria, nothing happened in Somalia) are extremely common in Western info-bubble.
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