• Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works
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    4 hours ago

    An opinion piece doesn’t change shit. And isn’t the authority on the subject.

    They include opinion pieces in newspapers as well.

    The definition is what you didn’t k know

    “Amazing you don’t even know what proxy is”

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      4 hours ago

      Since you appear to claim that Groh is not an authoritative source, then perhaps you’d prefer Andrew Mumford. Who in in Proxy Warfare spends an entire chapter titled What is Proxy War? unpacking the levels of engagement and making it painfully obvious that not all indirect assistance qualifies. Or perhaps, Geraint Hughes and his book My Enemy’s Enemy: Proxy Warfare in International Politics which builds a whole framework around the specific strategic relationships that turn a conflict into a proxy war. And of course, we can’t forget the Routledge Handbook of Proxy Wars which is four hundred and fifty five pages long and exists entirely because the concept is so much more complicated than your little copy pasted internet definition could ever dream of being.

      But sure, a definition you googled frantically is so much more authoritative 🤣