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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. Calli
by tokai 4y ago
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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- ComodoHacker 4y agoTroops 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.
- Sakos 4y agoExcept 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.
- butthatsit 4y agoYou'd be surprised how many people think the opposite. For example in Slovakia more than half of the public blames Ukraine.
- hericium 4y agoPutin'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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30450498