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The phrase Jiang uses for Putin's current framing of the Ukraine war to show that Russia has not officially shifted into a full total-war footing.
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special military operation
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...Putin still maintains that the war in Ukraine is a special military operation. It's not a full -scale war. If the moment that Putin..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...Putin still maintains that the war in Ukraine is a special military operation. It's not a full -scale war. If the moment that Putin..."
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Jiang argues that Russia has not yet fully shifted into total war because military spending remains moderate as a share of GDP and Putin still frames Ukraine as a special military operation rather than a formal war, leaving room for a later surge in mobilization.
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Jiang agrees that many ordinary Chinese do not support Russia in the special military operation.
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Alexander says Russia has been extremely alert to the danger of false-flag operations and has warned about that possibility many times throughout the special military operation.
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"...Putin still maintains that the war in Ukraine is a special military operation. It's not a full -scale war. If the moment that Putin..."
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"is callus right okay um she's right so so let me explain why the American system is really really clever okay 1980s um China..."
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"...on top of the possibility of false flags beyond the special military operation they warned about them many times Nico says who would have"
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"...look ever since february um uh 2022 when when the special operation uh uh special military operation was launched nato was at war uh..."
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"...perspective, which is like in 2022 when they launched the special military operation they knew that it would not be confined to Ukraine alone..."
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"special military operation um so again I think that there'll be a showdown uh in Odessa so I think Odessa will be the final..."
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"Now, as you know, in February 2022, Putin ordered a special military operation against Ukraine, okay? And this is a military operation against Ukraine...."
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