There is important precedent for a small, determined, patriotic army saving a nation from falling under the sway of Russia. And that precedent is the 105-day Winter War in 1939-40 between Finland and the Soviet Union, the precursor to Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
The courage of the Finns inflicted huge losses on their fearsome adversary, as the Ukrainian army is doing today.
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