This is very true- I arrived in the UK just after the Falklands war and remember the feeling there, I was also living in Russia during the annexation of Crimea. The national myth around Crimea is even greater than around Ukraine. I also recall When fighting first started in eastern Ukraine years back, Russians got quickly tired of their sons dying in “training accidents” in this shadow war, suddenly Putin pivoted to Syria, and then when that bogged down announced they were leaving with everything done(they never left).