AlexanderNorthAH

Forgot to post this here for suggestions: got an idea for a parallelism scenario based on a joke a friend made about the North Korean soldiers currently fighting against Ukraine being the modern equivalent to the Hessian mercenaries fighting against the United States during the American Revolutionary War- so, the Russian invasion of Ukraine parallels the American Revolution and its aftermath, with Ukraine as the fledgling USA and Russia as Britain. All Korean-speaking areas collectively parallel Germany, obviously, and either Crimea, Luhansk, and Donetsk or Belarus are Canada. Maybe the analogue to the post-Articles of Confederation United States is a pan-Slavic state pulling together Ukraine, Poland, Czechia, and Slovakia? Uncertain what countries to use as analogues to the major powers of the time- I'm thinking the European Union parallels Spain/its Latin American colonies and the United States and the countries dependent or semi-dependent on its military (South Korea, Taiwan, Japan,

I think my roommate's cat can tell that something's wrong, because for the past several days he's been bounding back and forth between me and my roommate headbutting and kneading us, flopping his entire body against us, and purring loudly like he's trying to comfort us, all with the most concerned look I've ever seen on his little face.