There are parallels in every prior war, I am sure, to aspects of the Russian war on Ukraine but I am reading now about the American Civil War:
"(One of the characteristic aspects of this utterly confusing war was the general feeling, among active secessionists, that it was somehow perfidious and unnaturally evil for the Federal government to resist when war-like measures were taken against it.) Catton, The Coming Fury (348)
Who fired the first shot? The South Carolinians.Who invaded whom? Russia invaded Ukraine. How dare those damn Yankees/Ukrainians shoot back!
Who bombed whose capital city first in World War II? Hitler bombed, almost to rubble, London first. How dare those English stage a show raid on Berlin in response!
People are crazy, man.
