The news provokes this reflection.
At the turn of the 20th century, Czarist Russia, a nation/state, some 50x
the size of Japan, in land mass and population; decided to teach those
uppity Japs a lesson as to who wore the big boy pants on the Pacific Rim.
So in 1905, they sent their Grand Fleet to do Battle in the Strait of
Tsushima, adjacent to the Korean Peninsula.
Togo (yes him) sank 35 of those Russian Warships along w/their crews
exceeding 40,000 sailors and crippled the rest!
Pass that on to the next bozo who insists that China is the coming world
power who will stomp anyone who gets in their way.