Ukraine illegally invaded by Putin's Russia

Ecno wrote:It's the Russians pretending to be Ukrainian separatists trying to invoke counter battery fire so they can claim there's a genocide and then have the pretext for an invasion (or for domestic propaganda purposes)

It's the playbook from 2008.

Memento Mori wrote:His "but but NATO" cassus belli wasn't working so Putin's now pivoted to genocide.

Captain Kinopio wrote:
It's improved since 2008 and 2014 but our politicians and media still need to be a lot better and clearer in their calling out of Russia's constant lies.

Ecno wrote:Seems they'll be pushing ahead with the invasion, with the most transparent false flag operation available, which will only satisfy the most bad faith tankie and the odd member of the Russian public.

Alvin Flummux wrote:I found this pretty informative:

Moggy wrote:Johnson has now said Putin is planning to invade and it'll be the biggest war in Europe since 1945.

He's so strawberry floating desperate to be wartime Churchill. When in reality he will be a piss poor cosplay version of Suez era Eden.

Mommy wrote:

Moggy wrote:Johnson has now said Putin is planning to invade and it'll be the biggest war in Europe since 1945.

He's so strawberry floating desperate to be wartime Churchill. When in reality he will be a piss poor cosplay version of Suez era Eden.

So bigger than these...

1944–1956 Guerrilla war in the Baltic states
1945–1949 Greek Civil War
1946–1948 Corfu Channel incident
1947–1962 Romanian anti-communist resistance movement
1953 Uprising in East Germany
1955-1959 Cyprus Emergency
1956 Uprising in Poznań
1956 Hungarian Revolution
1956–1962 Operation Harvest
1958 Opération Corse
1958 First Cod War
1959–2011 Basque conflict
1961–1967 South Tyrol insurgency
1962–1964 Jura conflict[3]
1967 Greek coup d'état
1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia
1968–1998 The Troubles
1970–1984 Unrest in Italy
1972 Bugojno group
1972–1973 Second Cod War
1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus
1974 Carnation Revolution
1975–1976 Third Cod War
1975 Portuguese coup d'état attempt
1976–present Corsican Insurgency
1981 Spanish coup d'état attempt
1986 Evros River incident
1988–present Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
1988–1994 First Nagorno-Karabakh War
1988–1991 Karabakh movement
1988 Zvartnots Airport clash
1991 Operation Ring
1992 Capture of Garadaghly
1992 Battle of Shusha (1992)
1992–1993 Operation Goranboy
1992 Mardakert and Martuni Offensives
1993 Battle of Kalbajar
1993 Battle of Aghdam
1993 1993 Summer Offensives
1993–1994 Operation Horadiz
1993–1994 Operation Kalbajar
2008 Mardakert clashes
2010 2010 Nagorno-Karabakh clashes
2010 2010 Mardakert clashes
2012 2012 Armenian–Azerbaijani border clashes
2014 2014 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes
2016 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
2018 2018 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes
2020 July 2020 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes
2020 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war
2020 Madagiz offensive
2020 Battle of Hadrut
2020 Aras Valley campaign
2020 Lachin offensive
2020 Battle of Shusha (2020)
2021–present 2021 Armenia–Azerbaijan border crisis
1989 Romanian Revolution
1990–1991 Soviet attacks on Lithuanian border posts
1991 January Events
1991 The Barricades
1990 Log Revolution
1991–2001 Yugoslav Wars
1991 Ten-Day War
1991–1995 Croatian War of Independence
1992–1995 Bosnian War
1992–1994 Croat–Bosniak War
1998–1999 Kosovo War
April 23, 1998 April 23, 1998 Albanian–Yugoslav border ambush
December 3, 1998 Albanian–Yugoslav border incident (December 1998)
December 14, 1998 December 14, 1998, Albanian–Yugoslav border ambush
April 3, 1999 Albania–Yugoslav border incident (April 1999)
1999–2001 Insurgency in the Preševo Valley
2001 2001 insurgency in Macedonia
1991–1992 Georgian war against Russo-Ossetian alliance
1991–1993 Georgian Civil War
1992 Transnistria War
1992 East Prigorodny Conflict
1992–1993 War in Abkhazia
1993 1993 Cherbourg incident
1993 1993 Russian constitutional crisis
1994–1996 First Chechen War
1995 1995 Azerbaijani coup d'état attempt
1995–1996 Imia/Kardak military crisis
1997–1998 Cyprus Missile Crisis
1997 Albanian civil war of 1997
1997 Operation Libelle
1997–present Dissident Irish Republican campaign
1998 Six-Day War of Abkhazia
1999 War of Dagestan
1999–2009 Second Chechen War

Mommy wrote:

Moggy wrote:Johnson has now said Putin is planning to invade and it'll be the biggest war in Europe since 1945.

He's so strawberry floating desperate to be wartime Churchill. When in reality he will be a piss poor cosplay version of Suez era Eden.

So bigger than these...

1944–1956 Guerrilla war in the Baltic states
1945–1949 Greek Civil War
1946–1948 Corfu Channel incident
1947–1962 Romanian anti-communist resistance movement
1953 Uprising in East Germany
1955-1959 Cyprus Emergency
1956 Uprising in Poznań
1956 Hungarian Revolution
1956–1962 Operation Harvest
1958 Opération Corse
1958 First Cod War
1959–2011 Basque conflict
1961–1967 South Tyrol insurgency
1962–1964 Jura conflict[3]
1967 Greek coup d'état
1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia
1968–1998 The Troubles
1970–1984 Unrest in Italy
1972 Bugojno group
1972–1973 Second Cod War
1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus
1974 Carnation Revolution
1975–1976 Third Cod War
1975 Portuguese coup d'état attempt
1976–present Corsican Insurgency
1981 Spanish coup d'état attempt
1986 Evros River incident
1988–present Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
1988–1994 First Nagorno-Karabakh War
1988–1991 Karabakh movement
1988 Zvartnots Airport clash
1991 Operation Ring
1992 Capture of Garadaghly
1992 Battle of Shusha (1992)
1992–1993 Operation Goranboy
1992 Mardakert and Martuni Offensives
1993 Battle of Kalbajar
1993 Battle of Aghdam
1993 1993 Summer Offensives
1993–1994 Operation Horadiz
1993–1994 Operation Kalbajar
2008 Mardakert clashes
2010 2010 Nagorno-Karabakh clashes
2010 2010 Mardakert clashes
2012 2012 Armenian–Azerbaijani border clashes
2014 2014 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes
2016 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
2018 2018 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes
2020 July 2020 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes
2020 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war
2020 Madagiz offensive
2020 Battle of Hadrut
2020 Aras Valley campaign
2020 Lachin offensive
2020 Battle of Shusha (2020)
2021–present 2021 Armenia–Azerbaijan border crisis
1989 Romanian Revolution
1990–1991 Soviet attacks on Lithuanian border posts
1991 January Events
1991 The Barricades
1990 Log Revolution
1991–2001 Yugoslav Wars
1991 Ten-Day War
1991–1995 Croatian War of Independence
1992–1995 Bosnian War
1992–1994 Croat–Bosniak War
1998–1999 Kosovo War
April 23, 1998 April 23, 1998 Albanian–Yugoslav border ambush
December 3, 1998 Albanian–Yugoslav border incident (December 1998)
December 14, 1998 December 14, 1998, Albanian–Yugoslav border ambush
April 3, 1999 Albania–Yugoslav border incident (April 1999)
1999–2001 Insurgency in the Preševo Valley
2001 2001 insurgency in Macedonia
1991–1992 Georgian war against Russo-Ossetian alliance
1991–1993 Georgian Civil War
1992 Transnistria War
1992 East Prigorodny Conflict
1992–1993 War in Abkhazia
1993 1993 Cherbourg incident
1993 1993 Russian constitutional crisis
1994–1996 First Chechen War
1995 1995 Azerbaijani coup d'état attempt
1995–1996 Imia/Kardak military crisis
1997–1998 Cyprus Missile Crisis
1997 Albanian civil war of 1997
1997 Operation Libelle
1997–present Dissident Irish Republican campaign
1998 Six-Day War of Abkhazia
1999 War of Dagestan
1999–2009 Second Chechen War

Mommy wrote:My point was more that people don't realise how many conflicts there have been in Europe since the second world war.
Is the Chechen wars the most deaths? Approx half a million dead or missing.