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[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Come on, you're more well-read than this. You know that military occupation and annexation are not the same thing.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You still haven't answered what you think the intent of the military action was. Do you claim any military confrontation is occupation?

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd more say that the military occupation was done for the sake of confrontation (this is similar to the official Chinese line). It was a really senseless invasion, as far as I can tell (and I disagree with the Vietnamese line that the war was expansionist).

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

I think we can agree on that