Hello, I'm Mike, and I'm not banned in Google.
1. Go look up definition of the word war.
There is no such term in the Russian military doctrine.
There are terms:
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e)
armed conflict – an armed conflict of limited scale between States (international armed conflict) or opposing parties within the territory of one State (internal armed conflict);
f)
local war – a war between two or more States pursuing limited military and political goals, in which military operations are conducted within the borders of the opposing States and which it mainly affects the interests of only these States (territorial, economic, political and others);
g)
regional war – a war involving two or more States of the same region, waged by national or coalition armed forces using both conventional and nuclear weapons in the territory of the region with adjacent waters and in the airspace (outer space) above it, during which the parties will pursue important military and political objectives. goals;
h) a
large–scale war is a war between coalitions of states or the largest states of the world community, in which the parties will pursue radical military and political goals. A large-scale war can result from an escalation of an armed conflict, a local or regional war involving a significant number of States from different regions of the world. It will require the mobilization of all available material resources and spiritual forces of the participating States;
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2. Then go look up the definition of "SVO" in RF (it doesn't exist)
Hi, Anton. I'm Mike, and I'm not banned in Google.
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Special operations or
spec ops are military activities conducted, according to
NATO, by "specially designated, organized, selected, trained, and equipped forces using unconventional techniques and modes of employment."
[1] Special operations may include
reconnaissance,
unconventional warfare, and
counterterrorism, and are typically conducted by small groups of highly trained personnel, emphasizing sufficiency, stealth, speed, and tactical coordination, commonly known as
special forces.
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3. Look at
RF criminal code that makes planning and conducting agressive wars a crime:
Chapter 34. Crimes Against the Peace and Security Mankind
Article 353. Planning, Preparing, Unleashing, or Waging on Aggressive War
1. Planning, preparing, or unleashing an aggressive war Shall be punishable by deprivation of liberty for a term of seven to fifteen years.
2. Waging an aggressive war,Shall be punishable by deprivation of liberty for a term of 10 to 20 years.
War, or not war, it was not agressive. De jury, it was defense of allies - Donetsk and Lugansk People Republic, recognized by Russia.
4. Understand why Putin propaganda insists on not calling it war.
Mostly because real escalation to the level "local war" means further economical losses from, say, ending Russian gas transit through territory of Ukraine.
5. Understand you sound insane to people outside of RF when you deny there is a war going on. It's like denying that sky is up and rain is wet.
As a figure of speech I can use the term "war", it's ok. But when we use it - I prefer to make clear that the war (called by the Ukrainian government
counter-terroristic operation) has started in 2014. Same way (as a figure of speech) we can say that the USA fought wars in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Serbia, etc..
