Hell, even in the Chincha Islands War you had two Peruvian presidents get thrown out of office right after another as a result of their unwillingness to declare war on Spain. They weren't even at war yet and already you had popular uprisings!
Real talk I fucking hate all the historic revisionism that's been going on in the past year. Like I've seen people arguing in real life for hours if Russians are mongolians or Ukrainians are just peasant Russians.
People like forming opinions and giving hot takes, there is no new thing under the sun.
Biden is a 'generic POTUS' - lawyer, has a military episode, has cash. Every 'generic president' (not Nixon, not Obama, not Trump and such abominations) probably will have similar reaction to ongoing war involving ruzzia or China.
And the funny part is that in Iraq and Afghanistan US military succed: they smashed to shit Iraqi army and smashed to shit most of Afghan. Part they loss Afghan was after war, when they didn't know what to do with this shithole, so they pointed randoms without any support to rule that country.
But they are mongolians. Definetly history of ruzzia is dominated by they connections with Mongolians and also they state have extreme different construction than any other slavic state.
Yeah I get that but the Kiev Kyiv debacle was also a whiplash for me. In an instant all the news outlets, governments and media started using a name I've never heard once before that point.
Such flip isn't unprecedented when Peking/Beijing and Koran/Quran happened pretty much same way.
I thought it was just a silly Twitter thing, until I started to see "Chicken Kyivs" in the supermarket.
It's like the "freedom fries" thing except this time it fits popular opinion. Freedom fries is funnier though
Sort of. The NVA-proper got whupped in every engagement with US troops, only the US's continued refusal to send ground troops past the UN-mandated ceasefire line saved North Vietnam from getting curbed.
But the nation didn't implode and wasn't conquered.
again, that's all internal stuggling and its not like the replacement governments weren't 90% the same people.
The effort to change English transliteration for Ukrainian from Russian spelling to, well, Ukrainian, has been apparently happening for some time before the war, mostly in academic circles it seems. And it sort of makes logical sense, except it seems like such a pain in the ass and all for questionable gain.
The whole reason why this battle goes so long already seems a bit fishy. "Bleed the Russians dry at low cost" - from my limited expertise the UAF is bleeding as hard as the Russkies in this area. So why hold on for this rather insignificant town?
Because from what we actually know, this is simply untrue. Recently there's been articles claiming that Russia is likely suffering losses as high as 5:1 compared to Ukraine (not necessarily true, but it's best we have). Which fits the commonly accepted idea that to overwhelm defended positions, you need superior numbers, which is what Russia is trying to do, failing to achieve any significant gains. It stands to reason they would incur heavier losses by throwing more people into the grinder constantly against defending forces.
Paraguay didn't implode? Wasn't conquered? Are you on crack? It was utterly destroyed, and remained a total basket case for decades. Its government was overthrown and it was occupied by its enemies for six years, not to mention that it lost large chunks of territory forever. And 10 000 deaths? Try 300 000. Both sides included, the war had casualties in the same tier as the US Civil War and Franco-Prussian War. And that's in absolute numbers. In relative numbers, it was one of the deadliest wars in history.
He's also forgetting that Brazil was the third power to purchase a dreadnought battleship. Granted they had to buy it from the UK's yards due to a lack of native industry but even so they kicked off a dreadnought race that saw Argentina buy two dreadnoughts of their own from the USA.
I mean, he's not entirely wrong. The term Russia comes from when Peter the Great was declared Tsar of all the Rus (Or Tsar of all the Russias depending on translation). Plural, which implied there were more then one, which there were. Those fucking Swedes got around among the local Slavs in the area up and down the various rivers. Moscow has spend the last 300 years since building up this national mythology of all Russian Speakers somehow being a common fraternal nation (under Moscow of course).
I disagree with that, that border was internationally recognized as being that of North Vietnam. The US pushed the envelope of what Russia and China would accept when they started their bombing of the North. If they had sent troops Russia and China would have intervened, as they said they would (and as China did in Korea).
