How to End the Russo-Ukrainian War Like the Russo-Japanese War

The Russo-Japanese War shares many similarities to the Russo-Ukrainian War, except Imperial Japan behaved more like modern Russia…

Russia expanded further and further East despite assuring Japan they wouldn’t.

Japan increasingly felt threatened by this encroachment so as a last-ditch effort to avoid war they offered a compromise, but Russia declined it, in part, because they thought they could rely on Germany’s support who’d ostensibly offer it on moral grounds, but who really wanted to see them fight each other in order to advance their own geopolitical goals.

Japan sensing the West’s long-term desire to colonize/“civilize” them attacked first.

Attack on Port Arthur

And then they attacked again.

Battle of Mukden

And again.