Russia Ukraine war, page-97174

"Russia s a great country, a nation that is used to fighting to the end, almost losing and then recovering", Borrell said in a speech in Madrid, bringing up the 1812 invasion by Napoleon Bonaparte's French empire and the 1941 invasion by Adolf Hitler's Germany as historical examples of this."

Both of those wars were about defending their own lands. Maybe he should have brought up Russia's invasion of Afghanistan as an example instead. Or perhaps he should have talked about the Russo-Japanese war, or what happened to the Tsar after they were humiliated in WWI, or how the Russians were forced to burn down Moscow as they fled the city when Napoleon's army was marching in.