Underdogs of history

Underdogs of history

>have huge advantages over all your neighbours
>Underdog
Great thread OP

>Fight against 2 superpowers,one which has 6x your GDP and the other 500+ million life count, and numerous small country at once.
>Your logistics are stretched beyond its limits, your troops continuing the fight solely on high morale
>resource poor country dominating anything at all
>having autistically high work output of your people, including pilots which had over double the flight hours than their american counterparts, autistically at their purpose until it is achieved.

Face it, if had same geographic/resource advantages as America had (with which are frankly impossible to fuck up), they would literally wipe the floor with shitty Americans.

>Talking about Japan exclusively in WW2
wew

Unironically these guys.
While they accomplished little, they never really stopped fighting for their own. They provided excellent warriors, writers and thinkers.

I was talking about their highest moments of decision, but ok, we can take it further back.

>Extremely small mountainous island in the middle of pacific earthquake fire ring, poor in resources, arable land and unforgiving climate.
>Meiji restoration
>Emperor Meiji literally making his country industrializing overnight, WITHOUT any human death toll taking part. (Unlike, Mao and Stalin did)
>Come Russo-Japanese war, first country to defeat an European one. Though Russians were no slouches, their fleet was fighting EXTREMELY long distances away from home, while Japan was fighting in its proximity. At the high cost of their peoples lives in war they are recognized as "the first Asian tiger". Defeating European power, was a literal world shattering move, that defined the wars and politics of 20th century.
>Come up with annexation of Korea as in its sphere of influence starts a Japanese hegemony in east. Invading a country with almost 12x time armed forces takes accomplishment, even if the country was struck with internal strife, continuing on to subjugate the rest of Asia, thus finally creating greater east Asian co- prosperity sphere.
>implying Australia would escape this fate would not the Americans intervene
>Come up after the losing war, Japan is demolished, although with the help of USA extreme injection of money into its economy, with sheer hard work, the country transformed into economic power. Not because the country had any natural resources, but extremely hard work and high education in the field work of an individual.
>In the 80's, Japan is an economic super power, threatening to overtake America,
>Come up 90's and 00's the miracle that they produced has disappeared into a thin air, eaten by house market bubble.

You can't tell me it hasn't been a good run.

>be a useless backwater archipelago since neolithic
>one day get off your ass and say I want an empire
>got to war with China for no reason
>get them to cede Taiwan to you
>start shit with Russia for no reason
>kick their ass up and down the street until they actually realize someone is fighting them and start sending reinforcements
>realize you're gonna get eaten alive by hungry ivans on some godforsaken peninsula nobody really wants
>scurry to America to get Roosevelt help you signing a peace treaty
>get off scott free and annex whole fucking Korea on top of it
>Germans are getting owned in WWI
>take all their islands because why the fuck not
>Russians revolt, turn red
>suddenly you're in love with the monarchy you fought 10 prior and agree with Wilson to send your troops to occupy Primorye with anglos
Peasant partisans grind you all down, anglos GTFO, you stay like an autistic faggot you are until Harding tells you to back the fuck off.
>later invade Manchuria, take all of it
>invade China proper AGAIN, 6 month later you're raping Nanking while anglos watch with glee, but you never really "win" just get tied up
>year later try to start shit with Russia AGAIN
>get BTFO by Zhukov
>take french indochina (Vietnam), anglos embargo your shit
>instead of fucking off back to your island with dignity, you start taking over more and more European territories in southeast Asia, including British Malaya
>Anglos are livid, you shrug and ally with Nazis and Fascists for good measure
>year later you go fullretard and sink half of US Pacific fleet for no reason
>Germany is now at war with Russia, you're on your own against fucking Murrica.
>you lose your shit, start taking over entire south east asia that wasn't already yours
>America hands Canada its fucking beer and goes to rape you in 50 different meanings of the word
>get your entire navy sunk, then get firebombed and nuked
>Soviets come back for shits and rape what's left of your army on mainland

>underdog

Anglo-Irish writers and thinkers

britain

>Threatening to overtake America
ISHYGDDT