? nobody mentioned Israel. Well - you did, but not sure why. I take that back - I have an idea why. I’m sure I’m going to regret responding to a 2d old burner account - but, here we are.
right. Well - we’re not talking about Israel at all here, sorry. I’m sure there’s lots of space to discuss it not in an explicitly Ukraine themed thread.
Well, no. It was supposed to be the start of Putin putting the USSR back together but those gloriously pesky Ukrainians keep kicking the shit out of that shithole.
IDK, really. True that NATO doesn’t want direct involvement and wants Ukraine to kick Putin’s ass. But it begs the question: is Russia a proxy for China or we just force the interpretation of the proxy war onto reality?
a proxy war is an armed conflict where at least one of the belligerents is directed or supported by an external third-party power
So the Ukraine war fits squarely in that definition. Other examples I found cited online were Korea, Vietnam, and the Soviets in Afghanistan - all of which have a major power as one of the direct belligerents
Didn’t think I would be alive to see anti-Israel post here
? nobody mentioned Israel. Well - you did, but not sure why. I take that back - I have an idea why. I’m sure I’m going to regret responding to a 2d old burner account - but, here we are.
Because I read the title and it did sound like what Israel has been saying for days
right. Well - we’re not talking about Israel at all here, sorry. I’m sure there’s lots of space to discuss it not in an explicitly Ukraine themed thread.
You must be thinking of the genocide, this is the proxy war
Well, no. It was supposed to be the start of Putin putting the USSR back together but those gloriously pesky Ukrainians keep kicking the shit out of that shithole.
IDK, really. True that NATO doesn’t want direct involvement and wants Ukraine to kick Putin’s ass. But it begs the question: is Russia a proxy for China or we just force the interpretation of the proxy war onto reality?
It was a throwaway quip but Wikipedia says:
So the Ukraine war fits squarely in that definition. Other examples I found cited online were Korea, Vietnam, and the Soviets in Afghanistan - all of which have a major power as one of the direct belligerents
Yup, looks like it fits the definition without a stretch