Comment by Y-bar
10 days ago
Ukraine, Georgia, Afghanistan, Chechnya. These are clear-cut with Russia as the driving aggressor. All the other 20 or so in eg. Mali and Dagestan might be less so, but should probably also be counted.
10 days ago
Ukraine, Georgia, Afghanistan, Chechnya. These are clear-cut with Russia as the driving aggressor. All the other 20 or so in eg. Mali and Dagestan might be less so, but should probably also be counted.
I would take the Chechnya away from that list, you can't be in war with yourself, Chechnya is part of Russia.
By that logic the US independence war (1775-1783) was not a ”war” either because the colonies were part of England. Neither were the war of 1861-1865 between the northern and southern states. Can’t be at war with yourself?
Not really (unless it was at least recently a different country), I wouldn't call what ETA or IRA were doing a war, Google calls it (separatist) campaign and I tend to agree, though first words which came to my mind were separatist movements and terrorism (though I can see their reasoning).
With Palestine vs Israel I would tend to call it a war since Palestine's own country was taken and it is occupied by different artifically created country, so I would say it is two countries at war.
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Apparently the US can. They have ICE ready to fight inland terrorists like people with signs or nearby a poorly maintained pool.
Operation Cyclone is largely understood as one of the main reasons for the invasion of Afghanistan by Russia. So US again is to blame as much.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone
To blame as much as Russia, who actually invaded? No.
US invaded by proxy through arming and supporting Islamists to destabilise a fairly legitimate government because it was aligned with Russia.
Think if Russia today arms an anti-democracy militia in Canada in order to destabilise USA. Any subsequent invasion of Canada by US would be a natural order of power play.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_war
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