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Russia will only lose some of its pre-2022 territory to Ukraine if it will lose the Battle of Crimea River lol! :D

The US did lose a couple of wars: Vietnam and Afghanistan. But they weren't vital wars like WWI was for Germany.

I have just watched this movie earlier today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Quiet_on_the_Western_Front_(2022_film) It shows just how horrific conditions were in World War I, especially on the Western Front. It really is surprising and quite shocking and amazing (in a very bad and sad way)...

But the US's existence was not threatened as a result of the Civil War. Even in the worst-case scenario, the US was simply going to lose its most backward and bigoted territories.

The US during the Civil War was not pushed to the limit that badly. It did keep most of its population, railroads, and industrial areas, after all.

Which cases were there when a country became extremely strong as a result of it being pushed to its limits? I can think of the World War II Soviet Union and present-day Ukraine, but which additional examples of this are there? Perhaps Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War, but what else?

An interesting article: https://archive.ph/somey

Which cases were there where a country hoped for a quick war or military campaign and then ended up being disappointed? I can think of: -Germany 1914 re: France, when it failed to win at the Marne and to conquer Paris. -Germany 1941 re: the USSR, when it failed to conquer Moscow. -Russia 2022...

Look again: Specifically, take a look at the surplus of females relative to males for various years in this graph. For 1939, there was a huge surplus of females relative to males for the very late 1800s-born German cohorts. For 1950, this also applied to the early 1900s-born German cohorts...

*1853 And the Rockies can be compared to Russia's Urals.

What are some of the best (theoretical) military defensive lines in the world based on natural barriers? I can think of the Alps surrounding Italy as well as the Carpathian Mountains, but what else? The Pyrenees? Also, what about the Daugava-Dnieper Line?

But what if they miss lol? :D Shoot more?

What if Germany attacked France through Switzerland rather than through Belgium in World War I?

Which additional wars were there where all of the combatants (at least the major ones) had below-replacement TFRs? I mean other than the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War, where both parties have a TFR of just 1.5 or less.

It's quite interesting that WWI, unlike WWII, only marginally damaged Russian male demographics: 1927: 1941: Compare with 1946:

In real life, World War II was ironically demographically a blessing for the West since it ensured that the two most dangerous enemies of the West (one short-term and one long-term) would demographically suffer much, much more than the West itself did:

If one excludes Jews, who was demographically hurt more by World War II, Russia or Ukraine? My guess is that the hurt was roughly equally distributed, no? Ukraine suffered more overall because it had many more Jews than Russia had. Also, just how much more difficult would it have been for the...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes%E2%80%93Picot_Agreement Russia should have been more ambitious and insisted on central Anatolia as well.

What about a 1916 Russian amphibious landing directed at Constantinople? Had Russia avoided losing WWI, it could have at least insisted that the Sykes-Picot-Sazonov Agreement also allow it to annex central Anatolia, no?

Had Russia ever conquered Anatolia, do you think that there was ever any chance of Russia subsequently using the Taurus Mountains as a natural defensive barrier again, along with all of their fortresses?