• ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
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    Broke: Germany started WW2 with the invasion of Poland

    Woke: Japan started WW2 with the invasion of China

    Ascended: Soviet Union started WW2 by invading Poland 2 weeks after the Germans

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      I don’t like to refer to military initiatives of the USSR to be invasions. I think it cedes ground to capitalists and falsely equivocates. The correct term is liberate.

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        Its still an invasion by definition. What the intentions of the assaulting army are don’t matter in regard to whether a military undertaking is an invasion or not.

        We can’t just pick and choose good sounding names and assume that changes reality, or that by adhering to a definition that that somehow cedes ground.

        Invasion: A military offensive in which large numbers of combatants of one geopolitical entity enter territory owned by another such entity, generally with the objective of either: conquering; liberating or re-establishing control or authority over a territory, forcing the partition of a country; altering the established government or gaining concessions from said government; or a combination thereof.

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            I understand, but we reach a point where that is simply not our problem anymore. We cannot try and make every little detail adhere to their worldview.

            If they make the equivalence, then so be it.