Life — May 2, 1918 — page 20: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

I can see this is a black and white illustration from Life magazine showing a military procession of mounted soldiers in elaborate uniforms and tall hats, traveling along a muddy road. The soldiers appear to be from a European army, likely from the 19th century based on their ornate dress uniforms and styling. However, without visible caption text or clearer OCR data beyond "comicbookseemiy" (which appears to be a scanning artifact), I cannot definitively identify which specific historical event, military campaign, or political situation this satirizes, nor can I identify which particular figures are being caricatured. To properly explain the satire's point to a modern reader, I would need the accompanying caption or title that originally accompanied this illustration.