Will The United States and NATO Wake Up To What Happened at the Meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization?
I am certain that most Americans do not have a clue what transpired this week at the meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (aka SCO). It is a clarion call, a defiant declaration, that the countries, which account for over half of the world’s pop...
SMO = Special Military Operation ATO = Anti-Terrorist Operation
The different is purely semantic on the legal end with the russians. (somewhat internationally) With a special military operation they are limited in what can be deployed and how the response can be formulated. With an anti terrorist operation those constraints do not exist.
Ah, I see - thanks for the explanation.