The Preferred Name for the Russo-Ukrainian War

The professional media, as well as some political commentators, have created various names for the Russo-Ukrainian War, just as it ignorantly and yet arrogantly creates its own often-grammatically incorrect names for other wars, usually without any consistent convention, and regardless of the official names of these wars, as I have posted previously. The names for wars are in important shrothand way to describe them. In this post, I shall explain why some of the common names should be rejected and suggest which name is the proper one for the war. One of the most common is the “Ukraine War,” which is as grammatically incorrect as the “Iraq War” or the “Vietnam War,” as opposed to the “Korean War” or the “Mexican War.” “Ukrainian War” or the “War in Ukraine” are other names that are sometimes used. Although these names are grammatically correct, they fail to name the aggressor in the war: the Russian Federation. They thus imply that the war is strictly a civil war, which it has not been since it began in 2014, when Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine, despite a treaty after the breakup of the Soviet Union with the former Soviet Republic to recognize Ukrainian independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity, including Crimea, in exchange for Ukraine’s relinquishment of former Soviet nuclear weapons. A deal was also struck between Russia and Ukraine for a base in Crimea for the Russian Black Sea fleet. The ethnic Russian separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine have been fomented by Russia, led by ex-Soviet intelligence officer, Vladimir Putin. Russians in the free representative republic of Ukraine are far freer than Russians in autocratic Russia. The Russian tyrant’s motive for starting the war is to nothing other than to restore the Soviet Union. The name “Russia-Ukraine War” includes Russia, and lists it first because it is the aggressor, but is grammatically incorrect, just as the “Ukraine-Russia War” is. The name that is the most grammatically correct and which most accurately describes the war is the “Russo-Ukrainian War,” which also is the most consistent with the usual convention for the naming of wars. Moreover, I note the inclusion of the word “War” in the name, as opposed to a “conflict,” as some media or political commentators describe it, as if there is some legitimate dispute between the two States, and not an unprovoked attempt by one to conquer the other. Therefore, it is also acceptable to refer to "Russian aggression against Ukraine," or some similar formulation. Start using "Russo-Ukrainian War" in writing and speech.