History

Haven't watched the tiktok but there are a few parallels to WW1 for sure. For one there's the advancement of weapons technology in colonial wars being used by peer/near-peer combatants in parallel with old tactics to disasterous results (machine guns and artillery in WW1, cheap drones and anti-tank weapons in Ukraine), the aforementioned period of colonial "policing" leading people to drastically misunderstand what modern war entails (look at how war was treated as an adventure prior to WW1 and compare to how the brigades were talking about it), mass media controlled by the ruling class misleading and outright lying to the general population (I'm sure everyone has seen the modern day examples, and for an example for WW1 let me plug a post I made on news coverage on the Battle of the Somme )