Considering the current state of the once world leading Eastern superpowers, I doubt your leader skills would be any worse than your predecessors'.
Purely by numbers, you had a chance of a (temporary) regional victory as we had only K61 in the region, which you assaulted by surprise while our troops were away on the Storm/MOJO fronts. With strong allies and appropriate members, this could have been a great and long lasting war due to our regional difficulties.
The amazing part (for us) was that K61 members turned to be genuinely attracted by the chance of finally having a war without 200+ hours nobling distances and even the semi-inacives came back to give you a beating (resulting in a superb morale) while yours easily routed on the fronts (due to poor morale and cooperation), allowing us to have a very swift break through and a quick change in regional dominance percentages.