You're forgetting the most important distinction: this time, they're the side that's attempting to encircle and subjugate another country. A country a third of

You're forgetting the most important distinction: this time, they're the side that's attempting to encircle and subjugate another country. A country a third of its size (in population), that -- very much like the Soviet Union itself in WW2 -- is resolutely determined not to be subjugated.