100% not an invasion. Anyone who conducts a Special Military Operation is an extremely stand up guy and is devoted to world peace with zero intentions whatsoever of starting a war against a sovereign nation. Trust me guys, I am definitely NOT being held at gunpoint by the secret police right now.
by AnnaKomneneMyBeloved<3 March 8, 2022

Is an Orwellian inspired New Speak word, popularized by a notable dictator, to describe a scorched-earth war of unimaginable devastation that seeks to eliminate all people that don't swear fealty to the dictator. This specific type of war begins with military exercises and conscripts being told that they're going into a territory just for training purposes. Upon arriving in a foreign land, the military orders their troops to commit themselves to destroying apartment buildings, schools, hospitals, power plants, sewage and waste water treatment plants, indiscriminately killing civilians, as well as committing numerous war crimes. During public interviews, special-military-operation will be used in place of all of these horribly messy details in an attempt to sanitize a brutal and inhumane war that the dictator has instigated.
To spend several days watching news broadcasts on the main state channels, as well as surveying state-controlled newspapers, is to witness the extent of the Kremlin’s efforts to sanitize its war with the Orwellian term “special-military-operation” — and to make all news coverage align with that message.
by Zappoblappo March 8, 2022

For when you're launching the full scale invasion of a country, however are too much of a pussy to call it what it is
by Comrade Koup March 24, 2022

by anonymous March 9, 2022

Carl von Clausewitz said that a Special Military Operation is the continuation of politics by other means.
by Camiguin September 8, 2022

The amended title of Lev Tolstoy's masterpiece to fit the Kremlin's internal misinformation campaign of the *** in Ukraine.
Russian news host for Vesti/Channel One/RT *asking a literature professor*: What are the names of Lev Tolstoy's major works?
Literature professor *trembling*: Umm...'Anna Karenina', 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich', and...umm...'Special Military Operation and Peace'.
Literature professor *trembling*: Umm...'Anna Karenina', 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich', and...umm...'Special Military Operation and Peace'.
by putinkhuylo March 27, 2022
