Comrade 'pelipsky, I have to disagree. An analogy is only valid if the similarities between the actual domain are congruent with those of the analogy. In the case of Alaska and Ukraine there is no comparison whatsoever....it so resembles invasion of Texazistan, each of your observations must be true.
Alaska is not an independent nation and—as part of the United States—an attack on Alaska would be an act of war against the United States as a whole and would invoke a U.S. response with obligatory NATO involvement. It would be a war of one major nuclear-armed power against another.
By comparison, Ukraine is an independent nation without mutual defense agreements and not part of NATO. The war there is one major nuclear power (with allies) against a weaker non-nuclear power with sympathetic but non-obligatory support.
By no stretch of the imagination does the analogy work. Perhaps a better analogy would be less far-fetched fiction and more historical fact, like the Nazi annexation of Poland, which Germany conducted with indefensible justifications exactly as Russia's invasion has been.
Incidentally, there is a small and insignificant group of Russian nationalists who have been trying to push the idea that Alaska was stolen by the U.S. but few are saluting that flag.
The jackalope is grieved to point out the analogy was between the States of Alaska and Texas. (Texazistan). Both states are under invasion without any Federal Government response pursuant to The Constitution you mentioned. The discrepancy should be alarming, but evidently it’s no big whoop. Texazistan even shares the delusion it was stolen from Mexico, just as Alaska’s story it was stolen from Russia as you mention.
There was no comparison to Ukraine.
Statistics: Posted by jackalopelipsky — 11/26/2024, 5:36 am