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It's not an invasion, it is just a special military operation.


A Superb Military Operation, some even say it's Super, one of the best military operations they've ever seen!


First US need to lose 220,000+ of military personnel dead there and then you can call it that. Otherwise comparison with Russia is kind a dull.


It was called a military operation long before they lost 220,000+.


Which is just a euphemism for a certain kind of invasion


Yes they’re referring to what Russia called invading Ukraine


If any other country ran what they called a “special military operation” like this in the US, we’d call it an invasion.


> If any other country ran what they called a “special military operation” like this in the US, we’d call it an invasion

It's a reference to "the official term used by the Russian government to describe the Russian invasion of Ukraine" [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_military_operation


Don't need to go that far. Refugees coming to the U.S. is called an invasion.


Heck, the US claims Venezuela has been and is conducting an invasion of the United States, based on...a whole lot less than that.


When did we stop calling them “police actions” when side-stepping Congressional approval?


I think the term is “humanitarian aid”




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