people keep comparing russia invading ukraine to nazi germany invading their neighbors, or to the china taiwan situation. and...
people keep comparing russia invading ukraine to nazi germany invading their neighbors, or to the china taiwan situation. and it’s like. those aren’t great analogies but also there aren’t a lot of options. There just aren’t that many major military powers.
we coudl generate a stadard library of maybe 1000 political situations by realistic wargaming perhaps, and refer to those?
i wouldn’t read them though, im not that interested
or Russia invading Poland? England invading Scotland? Norway invading England? Japan invading China? France invading Russia?
japan and korea? iraq and kuwait? You know even out of what’s available people are leaning heavily on one or two
oh, saudi arabia yemen, i’ve heard that brought up, you used that well as a counterexample to the claim tht americans will not buy oil from a country that invades its neighbors
that kenyan representative compared the situation to kenya!
ASSIGNMENT: Compare and contrast russia’s invasion of ukraine with at least 12 other political situations
ok haha wait i dont even want to do that
im gonna uh. Wasn’t there something i was supposed to be doing? Oh right i have a JOB seeya
the American Union vs. the American Confederacy
Azerbaijan vs. Armenia
Argentina vs. United Kingdom (Falklands)
humans be invading things
I keep saying the situation (smaller entity used to be explicitly under territorial jurisdiction of adjacent larger but gained sovereignty on expectations of relations so friendly the larger one kept its naval base from which it dominated the regional sea, but then friendly administration was replaced by one making overtures to a rival great power bloc) is pretty Cuba/USA so like… a Bay of Pigs they didn’t wave off?