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What Does “Unprovoked” Mean?

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2023
Everyone knows that the Revolution and our present happy establishment were founded upon the principle of resistance.
– Earl of Egmont [1753]

HORNBERGER’S BLOG
February 3, 2023

What Does “Unprovoked” Mean?
Note the following sentence in a New York Times news story yesterday by Michael Schwirtz and Anton Troianovski about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: “Mr. Putin’s attempt to put a veneer of nobility on an unprovoked invasion that has killed thousands of civilians and turned millions more into refugees was made in the Russian city once known as Stalingrad, on the 80th anniversary of a …
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