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There is no war going on. Wars happen between nations and between armies.

Whatever this is it is not a war.

Here’s an historical corollary:

“ The ethnic cleansing of Zamojszczyzna by Nazi Germany (German: Aktion Zamosc,[4] also: Operation Himmlerstadt)[5] during World War II was carried out as part of a greater plan of forcible removal of the entire Polish populations from targeted regions of occupied Poland in preparation for the state-sponsored settlement of the ethnic German Volksdeutsche.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing_of_Zamojszc...

Right, so Germany declared war on Poland, and during their occupation of Poland during that war, they conducted genocidal activities.

I don't see how your comment refutes anything.

Genocidal activities with the goal of removing the ethnic people entirely from a region. I didn’t wish to “refute anything”, not sure what you are commenting on.

You are not wrong but the point I was making was that framing this as a war is incorrect.

Wars have armies on both sides.

Wars aren’t fought between an army and a bunch of trapped civilians who can’t escape between people with the latest high tech military equipment and another group who have some small arms, ancient equipment and rocks.

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