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Originally Posted by Jimbuna
None as far as I'm aware but in the final months of 1936 saw the arrival of foreign troops, International Brigades joining the Republicans and Italian CTV, German Legion Condor and Portuguese Viriatos joining the Nationalists.
All invited and welcomed by either side of the conflict.
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Certainly right.. Adolf Galland wrote an excellent book also describing what happened in Spain.
However none of the foreign powers involved were in the game to grab land. In the Ukraina Russia certainly was, one of the reasons being the Black Sea harbour of Sevastopol.
Even if the US had managed to keep or convert the whole of Ukraina to the West, and/or the EU to join them, none of them would have actually occupied and kept whole regions, and certainly not by concealed military.
I can understand Putin strategically so to speak and all that, but it does not change one yota from being a war.