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Russia invaded Ukraine. You can point to their "little green men" invading Crimea in 2014, for example.

I don't mean this in a bad way, but your start date for the hostilities is very american-centric. Israel and Iran were attacking each other in 2024 and 2025, for example. The "Twelve-Day War" was in June 2025, but the war only started when the US got involved and hit the girl's school? That doesn't make sense to me.

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>Israel and Iran were attacking each other in 2024 and 2025

Reality: Multiple surprise attacks launched by Israel, including killing Irans diplomatic negotiators while actively negotiating.

If they were negotiating something, then clearly it didn't start there either. This supports my position that 1) this isn't a simple black and white question and 2) "who started it" depends on the date we decide to pick.

We can argue if it's right to do that while negotiations are going on, but that's a different question.

I think it's rather obvious that it didn't start with israel killing negotiators.

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