Cómo justificar una guerra: análisis crítico de los discursos de Vladimir Putin, Barack Obama y Donald Trump
Journal: Pragmalinguistica
Year: 2023

In this paper we analyse, within the framework of Pragmatics and Critical Discourse Analysis, Vladimir Putin’s speech on February 24, 2022, where he announced the war between Russia and Ukraine, euphemistically called “special military operation”. His declaration of war will be compared with those made by Barack Obama and Donald Trump at the start of the military conflict of the United States against Libya and Syria, respectively. According to our hypothesis, the principles of “just” wars (Just