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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

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.

InitialLastName 5y ago
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".