• Hazzia@infosec.pub
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    2 months ago

    I wanted to do a reverse of this with resistance forces so I could have Ukraine saying “cuz fuck 'em” but I don’t think I actually know of another place that successfully invaded the agressive country’s territory

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      2 months ago

      Theres the Hitler / Napoleon arc of conquering Europe then collapsing and having the allied forces invade and occupy the dictators country.

      There’s also the franco-prussian war where Bismarck goaded Louis Napoleon the dictator of France into declaring war and invading Germany. He then stepped two feet in Germany got surrounded and captured and the prussians/Germans marched all the way to Paris.

      These were successful invasions though and ended up with the resistance capturing the aggressors capital. It remains to be seen how well this “invasion” will turn out. As it stands the Ukrainian gains are limited and far from Moscow or any other key strategic locations, meanwhile the Russians are advancing, if slowly, on the main front. This seems more like an incursion then an invasion, like the u.s. invading Canada during the revolution / 1812 with no long term occupation as a result.

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        Yeah, AFAIK if you lost a war badly back in the day you lost territory, it was just expected regardless of the aggressor. This one’s weird mostly just because it’s a country that should have (in conventional combat) rolled over easily, by every possible measure.

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        How. How did I forget about those conquering arcs. Maybe because those were such a larger scale that my brain considered it a different category of “reverse invasion”?

        I KNOW I forgot about franco-prussia because of how quick/silly it was.