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I know this is gonna be controversal but technically speaking, there are no Russo-Ukrainian War, but Russo-Ukrainian Conflict since Russia did not declare war on Ukraine.

It has a scale of a war but it is not officially a war yet.

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If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.

Duck-typing for a war.

It's a special ornithological operation

In how many of the US's armed conflicts was war declared? To the best of my recollection, the US never declared war against any Indian tribes, but spent more than a hundred years periodically fighting against them. Then there were overseas engagements. I have never heard the fighting in Korea called anything but "the Korean War", but at the time the US line was that it was "a police action". The US had a lot of troops in Vietnam and dropped plenty of bombs on the north, without ever declaring war.

>> In how many of the US's armed conflicts was war declared?

The US has not declared war since World War 2.

The past 20 or so years of conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other places was officially "Authorization for the Use of Military Force" [1], not a war. (Notwithstanding the frequent use of the term "war on terror".)

Under the US Constitution, war declarations are typically made against opposing nation-states and are performed by the US Congress [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Milit...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Powers_Clause

So you can murder someone, and say it wasn't murder, and then it's not murder?

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