invasion
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Later he joined the international legion of Ukraine’s armed forces in 2022, after Russia launched its full-scale invasion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Military experts who spoke to the BBC also think an invasion is a long shot, pointing to the multiple ways the two countries work together on defence.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
South Korea has in recent years emerged as a major arms exporter -- particularly since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in early 2022 -- including through a multibillion-dollar arms deal with Poland.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Tens of thousands of US and British troops were deployed to the country in 1991 following Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Sophie Scholl was shocked by the Polish invasion.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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When Alexander, not yet 30 years old, crossed the Hindu Kush, his conquest tipped from plunder, expansion and avenging Persian invasions into an epic and increasingly confused fantasy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
The search for the source of the medbed conspiracy took me into the world of scammers and crystals and alien invasions and broken families and sci-fi movie sets and the Arizona desert.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
Last time a marine heatwave hit South Australia and Tasmania, there were starving penguins, fish kills, suffocating algae outbreaks, and jellyfish invasions.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
In both of these misguided invasions, Americans apparently convinced themselves that Canadians essentially did not exist, at least not as a people or a nation with a shared collective identity.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
Still nervous, still upset by his reaction to my mentioning the bathroom invasions, I asked, “The tape?”
From "Silent To The Bone" by E.L. Konigsburg
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