5th generation warfare

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If anyone wants to know, "Beweglichertorpfostenkrieg" is literally just "moving goal posts war" disguised as a german compound word.

As a German, this word was compounded incorrectly anyway. Adjectives don't get compounded. So it would be "Beweglicher Torpfostenkrieg"

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It's actually quite easy to correct, so why not mention it?

Make that "moving goal post war" a "goal post movement war" and now it's all nouns and valid to compound them.

German...Grammer...Nazi...

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This is wrong. That would describe a certain type of war, but specify that the war is movable.

I think the "Torpfostverschiebekrieg" mentioned in another comment would be the best solution.

But surely wouldn't that imply the existence of such thing as a 'goal post war'? Because the term is meant to mean '(moving goal post) (war)', and not '(moving) (goal post war)'

On the other hand in Finnish that's can be one word: maalitolpansiirtosota. No sense implied.

Hmm they can try using that as the new Паляниця (Palanitsya).

Is it not a German compound word?

„Torpfostenbewegungskrieg“ would be correct. I‘d prefer „Torpfostverschiebekrieg“ though.

Putin after the war: „And with that, I declare our special operation to lower our male population a great success!“

Bro your speech mark fell off and it’s at the bottom of the word now ._.

It's 5th generation warfare because it takes 5 generations to recover from it

Huh, I just thought it was an autocorrect of "5th grade"

Putin is that kid on the playground that kept announcing new rules every time he was losing.