Countries that "pre-empitively" and illegally invade other, smaller countries for completely spurious reasons always end up finding out there's nowhere left to run....eventually.

Sometimes it takes quite a long time, though.

And their true loyalists here and there never give up, no matter how hard it gets, no matter how unpopular their cause. I have a friend whose uncle was a retired SS colonel from WWII, living in Canada. When he'd get drunk, he'd rampage around yelling "Ve vill rise again!" and showing off his Nazi tattoos to the dumfounded and often outraged people in the bar. (What a great way of making new friends, eh?...ha! ha!) Like I said, some loyalists of this or that bloody great conquering empire never give up...no matter how bankrupt their case has become to most of the other people in the world.

We'll hear a few like that, long after this debacle is over, still saying that it was weaklings like us war critics who "couldn't cut the mustard", and that caused the defeat in Iraq. Yup, uh-huh. Righty-ho! Have another beer, Herr Koronel...