the existential threat the dominion faces doesn't have a real parallel. i'm not even sure there's an analogous ambassador to assassinate or analogous response to said assassination for any of the third world nations to have done during the cold war to get help aganst a US coup or invasion.
The analogy would be something like if the USSR framed America for shooting down Kissinger's plane before him and Nixon could 'normalize relations' with China, leaving an 18 minute long section of falsified tape recordings in which the invasion of the PRC to reinstall the ROC government was discussed; forcing China to openly side against the USA in the cold war.
the existential threat the dominion faces doesn't have a real parallel. i'm not even sure there's an analogous ambassador to assassinate or analogous response to said assassination for any of the third world nations to have done during the cold war to get help aganst a US coup or invasion.
The analogy would be something like if the USSR framed America for shooting down Kissinger's plane before him and Nixon could 'normalize relations' with China, leaving an 18 minute long section of falsified tape recordings in which the invasion of the PRC to reinstall the ROC government was discussed; forcing China to openly side against the USA in the cold war.
... brb, breaking the temporal prime directive
wait no stop framing the US for killing a Chinese diplomat, would be better, rather than their own guy and kissinger wouldn't die anyway.