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The Open Battlefield

f we say the First Gulf War, from August 1990 to February 1991, was the firstever live-broadcast military conflict in the television era, then the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in February can be considered the first mass combat scene of the social media era. Although the actual fighting occurs on Ukrainian territory, people on all continents are involved

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