• Pennomi@lemmy.world
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    1 年前

    Not exactly a proxy war when Russian troops are personally in Ukraine. That’s just a war.

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      1 年前

      The Korean War had over a million NATO troops and also tens of thousands of Soviet troops and, somehow, remained a proxy war. A particularly bloody one, but there was still no actual open full-scale warfare between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. Even China and America remained officially at peace, despite making up the majority of the forces on each side

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      1 年前

      Russia is actively in Syria from the end of 2015 as an official belligerent, it’s not something new for Russia to fight directly while others use only proxies.

      But I can see your point; still - officially - this is only a three days military operation. When that stance will finally change in the official channels, it will mean they can’t hold the mask anymore.

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      It’s a proxy war because the two major powers are fighting in an area neither of them own.

      Iraq was a proxy war, even though US troops were there.