If you're facing a one-front war, you have justification for your defense. If you're facing a two-front war, either you started some shit or you got tag-teamed by your neighbors, so a toss up whether or not you deserved it.
If you're facing a seven-front war, it is totally and unequivocally your fault. There has never been a country minding its own business that gets dogpiled to that degree in the modern era.
If you're facing a one-front war, you have justification for your defense. If you're facing a two-front war, either you started some shit or you got tag-teamed by your neighbors, so a toss up whether or not you deserved it.
If you're facing a seven-front war, it is totally and unequivocally your fault. There has never been a country minding its own business that gets dogpiled to that degree in the modern era.
Counterpoint: like a dozen different countries invaded Russia during the Russian Civil War.
*reactions to revolutions that threaten the entire current global order right in the backyard of the major empires not included
Counter Counterpoint: the Russian civil war was not in the modern era
Depends on where you put the start of the "modern era," really. By some definitions, it began about 500 years ago.
Fair; I'd not realized it was so contentious a period to classify
I have seen it as 1871 to 1945, but I don't remember the context for it