Ukraine struck an Iranian commercial vessel, killing at least one sailor and wounding several others. The ship, laden with steel, was sailing from Russia’s Astrakhan Port to Iran’s Anzali Port when it was hit.
Reason for title laid out in the article.
I think this is okay here. Mod please advise.
Crosspost from https://lemmygrad.ml/post/12341161
It unquestionably is a war de facto, but de jure within the state of Russia, it’s a “special military operation.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_war
I don’t know Russian law and what approval may be needed from the Duma, but if we’re being honest and not overglazing Putin, I wonder if it’s some similar reason to this:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/call-war-trump-reveals-real-172604512.html
Wikipedia has a list of United States military conflicts, since our inception (it’s long), and very few have been officially declared war.
I’m imagining Russia and any other state operated on similar bases, but obviously an not positive. And right now I cba ti ho digging, as I’ve other things to sort. Maybe I will if I have time and remember. Or maybe anyone else will.
Yeah, that’s why. In all contexts but one, this is a war. It’s only in the context of the Russian state, as a sovereign state with a body of law, that it’s an SMO.
No one disagrees that the Korean War was a war, but in the context of the US government & law at the time, it was a police action.