You can say this started 3 years ago or you can say it started centuries ago. Picking an arbitrary date in between is just propping up an agenda.
Nicely put.
It's like saying the war between Israel and the Palestinians started on October 7, 2023. You can pick any date you like - 1973, 1967, 1956, 1948, before 1948, and so on, but the date you pick (if you want to pick one at all) is not meant to be historically accurate, but to promote whatever side you hope wins the war, when it eventually ends.