Fransisco Franco. Nationalist leader in the Spanish Civil War. Pal of The Fuehrer (Hitler, not Biden).
I think OUR military is more likely to restore The Constitution rather than install a dictator. I pray I am right.
Yet Franco refused to allow the Germans to install artillery so they could bombard Gibraltar, and kept Spain out of the war by not joining the Axis Powers.
And remember, the “Republican” Spanish took help from Stalin’s USSR. Think of all that GOLD looted from the Aztecs and Incas that was shipped to Russia for “safekeeping” that disappeared into the Russian vaults.
More like he took allies where he could find them. Same as Finland.
Both countries paid a price.