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tetedur

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3. When in history has a powerful nation waged war on a much less powerful nation that decided to fight back

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Sat Apr 4, 2026, 06:37 AM

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(with help from some outside nation) succeeded in permanent conquest of that weaker nation?

Not the American Revolution, not the Vietnam War, not in Afghanistan with the either the Soviet Union or the United States, not with Russia and Ukraine.

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