I have the Russian invasion of Ukraine as the Japanese occupation of Manchuria. It’s not really a close match because it’s not as much of a proxy war, but it does match with imperial powers expanding their territories to their neighbors
That’s a pretty good comparison, I just likening it solely on the basis of “supposed military power gets repeatedly embarrassed by numerically inferior enemy”
I think we’re a few years out from that, feels more like 1936-ish, like the Italian invasion of Ethiopia
The Italian invasion of Ethiopia I’d say is Russia in Ukraine.
We’re at the beginning of the appeasement of Trump.
So. 1936ish feels apt, but … once he goes for Cuba it’s 1939
I have the Russian invasion of Ukraine as the Japanese occupation of Manchuria. It’s not really a close match because it’s not as much of a proxy war, but it does match with imperial powers expanding their territories to their neighbors
That’s a pretty good comparison, I just likening it solely on the basis of “supposed military power gets repeatedly embarrassed by numerically inferior enemy”
Yeah, it’s never quite an exact match, it just rhymes!