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Re:Russia confiscates passports of senior officials to stop ... by red-iron-pine on Monday April 03, 2023 @09:26AM (#35423155)
The Winter War is a bad comparison. Finland didn't have massive international blocks backing it, nor did the Soviets. NATO -- 30, soon to be 31 countries -- are backing UKR, while India, China, Iran, and a few others are backing Russia to varying degrees.

The real comparison is probably closer to Iraq-Iran in the 1980's. Iraq launches a huge mechanized offensive, gets into Iran, runs out of steam, and slowly gets pushed back, at high cost for both sides. It gets ugly, fast, and kills a whole bunch of people. It goes in for ~8 years before it eventually just peters out, and lasts that long because of international support for each side: Iraq had the US and similar 1st worlders; Iran had the USSR and COMBLOC.

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Re:Russia confiscates passports of senior officials to stop ... by ammonammonammon on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @03:28AM (#35450575)
Iran nor Iraq shelled their own minority citizens leading up to and partially instigating the invasion. Additionally NATO was not knocking on either one’s doorstep.
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