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[LuckyR]

Up thread I made this attempt at a definition: "Typically bullying is aggressive behavior usually via a imbalance of power of the aggressor over the victim(s). It can take the form of verbally mocking to actual physical violence. We usually think of the big kid that pushes around smaller kids, but the kids that side with the big bully, to mock the victims, are themselves bullies, just not as physically aggressive.
On a larger scale, the US invasion of Iraq was IMO bullying as was the destruction of the Nord Stream Pipeling." The US used their power to illegally invade a country and dare anyone to stop them.

I'm not getting what you feel sets bullying apart from ordinary aggression or conflict.

Bullying is a specific form of aggression where one takes advantage of an imbalance of power to intimidate and dominate another. Terrorism is bullying on steroids.

So the goal is not to defeat or eliminate, but to subjugate. I don't disagree, but such a definition won't cover some of what is casually called bullying in the media.