I’m racking my brain for a historical parallel to the courage and fighting spirit of the Ukrainians and coming up empty. How many peoples have ever stood their ground against an aggressor like this? It’s legendary
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As one of my favorites here has shown, I am getting the same awe watching Ukraine now as I do when I learn about the amazing power & strength of the indigenous peoples.
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Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Red Cloud, President Zelenskyy. 
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Poland? Finland? Vietnam? Hungary? Ethiopia? Greece? Ireland? Croatia? Bosnia? America?
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Serbia against Austria 1914,against Axes 1941, against NATO 1999,...
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The Lakota and Cheyenne. The Seminole. The Pueblo. The Chiricahua. The confederacy under Tecumseh. The Chickamauga Cherokees. The Red Stick Mvskogees. The Pequot. The Wampanoag. I'm running out of characters, but here's me gesturing broadly to North America.
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I strongly support the people of Ukraine and despise Putinism, but the struggle for self-determination and freedom is neither uniquely modern nor European.
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Haiti overthrowing the French
The Vietnamese resisting the US
Algeria pushing out France …
All outgunned and outnumbered and yet …
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Ethiopia (haile Selassie) v Italy
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Bosnia Herzegovina, newly independent, no army yet but a European and UN arms embargo slapped on it literally had to start defending itself against Europe’s 4th largest army, Yugoslav National Army and Serb paramilitaries with sticks and stones. Sarajevo Siege for eg1992-1995
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Paul, the Finns did so in 1939-40 against Stalin. They held their own. There are many similarities between the Finnish Winter War and the current Russian war of aggression against Ukraine.
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1992 siege of Sarajevo and Serbian agression on Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bosnians were in a much worse position than Ukranians because US imposed weapons embargo on ex Yugoslav states. We made IEDs to destroy tanks rolling into Sarajevo, no Stingers or RPGs.
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Perhaps the Finns during the winter war in 1939. Nobody came to our help against the Soviet army. There was almost 10 Russian soldiers against 1 Finnish soldier. And they had superior air forces, tanks, ships, submarines etc. Still we survived as a nation. 
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...but let's also keep in mind that during WW 2, Finland supported Nazi Germany. (but in fairness, protected its Jewish and other minority populations from broad persecution.)
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Bosnia and Herzegovina 
. Sarajevo defended itself for 4 years under siege.
is it amnesia or?
. Sarajevo defended itself for 4 years under siege.
is it amnesia or?![Image](data:image/svg+xml,<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="288" height="360"><rect fill-opacity="0"/></svg>)
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The War in Bosnia and Herzegovina 92-95 Srebrenica - GENOCID
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Srebrenica '95 - Genocide in Europe (3h04min Trial video)
#Srebrenica #Genocide
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The War in Bosnia and Herzegovina 92-95 Sarajevo
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BOSNIA: SARAJEVO: SERB SNIPERS WOUND 8 PEOPLE
(11 May 1995) Natural Sound The streets of downtown Sarajevo came under fire again Thursday, just hours after a French U-N soldier was seriously wounded by a...
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Greece in WW2, notoriously stood their ground against Italy and even pushed them back into Albania. Mussolini had to ask daddy Hitler for help.They put up a remarkable stand against the Germans too. Note that at that point they were only not-axis country standing on the continent
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Greece(1940-41) and Crete(1941) in WW2. The airborne invasion of Crete saw the first organized resistance by a civilian population in that conflict.
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I’m all for educating Paul on the resilience of people over centuries of war, conflict, revolution, colonialism, occupation, genocide, enslavement, apartheid, tyranny, independence & bravery here—but this pic of Mandela & Castro…
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Literally all the tribes that fought the European invaders in the land now called the United States.
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Tunisia (2010), Egypt and Bahrain (2011), Jordan (2011-2012), Morocco (2011-2012), Syria (2011-), Libya (2011), Yemen (2011), Algeria (2019-2020), UAE (2011), Turkey (2013), Lebanon (2015), Kobane (2014-2015), Sudan (2011-2013, 2019-2022), Hong Kong 2019-2020, Arstakh/NK (2020)
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13 American colonies 1775-1783
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Actually, Palestinians have been doing it for more than 70 years. They're just not white enough to get the same recognition.
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Czechoslovakian uprising 1968
no need to wrack your brain the examples are myriad
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Where my mind went as well.
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