The number would be closer to 100 000 russian soldiers according to the pentagon, with 70-80% of it engaged inside ukraine already. But yes that's still just a

The number would be closer to 100 000 russian soldiers according to the pentagon, with 70-80% of it engaged inside ukraine already. But yes that's still just a fraction of the total russian army, and the ukrainian army had very similar numbers on the ground at the start of the war. So it's not equivalent to ww2 at all. But yes, the current situation is actually very different to WW2 with even the few similarities being at most superficial. But every war is compared to WW2 since it's a nice way to push for escalation under the pretext of stopping the next hitler. Yet WW1 is almost always a more appropriate example, but a pretty inconvenient one since it does not fit into war mongering narratives. Because I'm just not sure that saving serbia back in 1914 was really worth the lives of 10 million people in hindsight.