I was thinking battle of the bulge with tump as the americans and the media minions as the germans demanding surrender.
Americans took a lot more casualties than the Germans at the Bulge, despite attaining a key strategic victory, which didn’t fit the point I was trying to make. I like Austerlitz because it keeps with the Napolean theme, and is the classic example of the stronger force (media/GOP-E) taking the bait set by a master, and despite having the best ground, troops, and numbers inflicting only insignificant casualties on their adversary, while suffering the destruction of their army in the process.