For the initial attacker, proportionality does not exist. If you see Putin as the initial attacker of Ukraine there is no proportionality. IF you see Catherine the Great as the first attacker then you see how going back to 1948 for the Palestinians confounds the issue. Arbitrarily drawing lines in history just justifies war forever. Perhaps some want to bring up the Crusades. To speak of war as fair and has rules is a delusion. Perhaps you have heard the folk saying "all is fair in love and war".
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