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And the bombing of Hiroshima leveled an entire city. Still wasn't an invasion.

While true, the US did actually invade Imperial Japan. They captured nearly all the Ryukyu islands before the atomic bombings.

Yes, that's an invasion! And the Japanese invaded the Aleutian Islands during WWII. Taking even a barely inhabited frozen rock by force is an invasion. Has nothing to do with the scale of destruction.

“Invasion” implies the intent of sustained military occupation/control over some portion a country’s territory. There’s no suggestion that was ever the objective here.

Idk, Trump seems to have strong intent to control the oil production.

Agreed. However what happened Jan 3rd wasn't an invasion.

That doesn't make it an invasion. It was a capture/extraction operation.

Was it a large scale one, sure. But it was not an invasion.