Why has Russia always been like this?
>>65464150Wtf is going on in that picture?
>>65464160If I had to guess, it's depicting that time the Imperial Russian Navy had a blue-on-blue incident in transit to the theater of battle.
>>65464150That is a terribly cropped photoThis is the attack on Port Arthur
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>>65464150A long and convoluted history that would be incredibly hilarious, were it not for all the dead people, and the suffering that makes 40k come across as star trek.Also I don't care what people say, Russian ships are some of the sexiest ever produced.
>>65464496>looting commodeswar….war never changes
>>65464247>Russian ships are some of the sexiest ever producedBitch please, as if Pidors could ever make something like that.
>>65464150They were traitors
>>65464547>the Don Cossacks hate Russia with a perfect hatredthe identity of the Cossacks kind of puzzles me. A lot of the time they seem to be held up as symbols of Russian patriotism in the same way a cowboy is quintessentially American but they seem to have some sort of seperate ethnio-cultural identity and pseudo-independent rump state thing going on.
>>65465302Russia takes everything from others and tries to hold it up as symbols of its own superiority
>>65465302Cossacks were traditionally loyal to the Czars because they were given special privileges. Without the privileges, no loyalty.
>>65465306It's funny how it works for basically everything Russia is supposedly known for. Vodka? Polish. Matryoshka? Japanese. Ballet? French/Italian. Uraaaaaaa?! Mongolian. Bears? Polish. Borscht? You know where this is going...
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>>65465302Isn't this the same with historic US 'losing groups? Native Americans have beef with the colonizing Westerners, but are generally viewed as above average soldiers (at least books and movies are full of characters like that). Ex-confederate southern people like seething about the Federal Govt, but are some of the most pro military/defense people in the US
>>65465302This anon >>65465368 has it right. However, I am not an expert on Russian history, so take everything I'm about to say with the appropriate amount of salt.As I understand it, the Tsars used the Cossacks as a sort of Varangian Guard: different cultural and ethnic identity, so very helpful in crushing revolts from others because there was danger from racial loyalty, and they'd already been bought by the Tsars, so there was no risk of sudden betrayal in the name of more money or power.This, however, made them huge targets when the Revolution came. The Bolsheviks all but exterminate the Don Cossacks (along with most other life in Ukraine).
>>65464547Is that The Economist?
>>65464547I've read this a dozen times and it never gets old, what is the original work?>>65464150>>65464242>Vladivostok Russian rebel fleet defeated by UN sanctioned DPRK High Seas Fleet Peacekeepers in 2033, colorized.
>>65465952It certainly has its writing style, right down to the last paragraph which made it sound like the whole article was just an excuse to advocate for the abolition of the corn laws
>>65465976>>65465970>>65465952The economist, Oct. 14, 1854. pp. 1117-1119.https://archive.org/details/sim_economist_1854-10-14_12_581Also further ahead in this issue (p. 1126):>The Times was quite wrong in saying that each serf costs 1,900 roubles. A serf in Russia is worth on average 300 to 350 roubles assignate, including his wife and his land, so that in Russia as well as in Austria the loss of a horse is more regretted than the loss of a soldier, because they can get a recruit without paying for him, whilst they cannot have a horse without buying it.Not only does History repeat itself, she flagrantly copy-pastes herself.
>>65464150Russian military history is basically trying to build up a modern force, having it destroyed, and then narrowly winning or fighting to stalemate through using their people as cannon fodder and significant outside assistance.
>>65466103You forgot “get close to having an effective fighting force and then purging it because reasons”
>>65465302It's perfectly natural for the just, idealized image of a nation's people to hate the corrupt, self-serving reality.
>>65466045Thank you, i recently lost my collection of 19th century texts. It is not a hard copy but knowing where to start again is a good thing.
>>65466045>shit was that bad in Austria-Hungary in 1854How did that shitheap zombie empire survive till WW1?
>>65466290put on your trip norktard so that your drivel can be filtered
>>65466309have you been conscripted for the SMO yet?
>>65466319That is obviously not him.Also, holy shit, I've never seen a zigger try to defend Russian performance in the Russo-Japanese war before.
Is this RapeChink?
>>65466290>>65466301>North Koreans are killing Ukrainians and this board is run by pro-Ukrainians who hate North Korea stupid rapebaby.>You sided with nafoids who hated North Korea in an argument without looking at any context.Actually i'm on record many times supporting Ukraine, i've even gone so far as to tell their drone operators how to hit Koksans and that is a matter of record in the archives. I hate Russia and don't think the DPRK should be supporting them as a US/DPRK alliance would pay them more in the long run. I hate Russia and want them all dead, the fact that i'm a Nork appreciator does not mean i am a Russia supporter. It is quite the opposite, i think that the Nork people get great benefits from this war and the longer they support Russia the more Russians die which i think we can all agree is a good thing. If Russia and their people ceases to exist then everyone from Kiev to Pyongyang will rejoice. My stance has been proven by history, the Nork's combat record, the Norks are better people than Russians who are not people at all, merely vermin to be exterminated or in the DPRKs case explioted.I do not support the DPRK's involvement in Ukraine but i understand it. A few years ago i made a couple of Ukraine themed stained glass windows and devoted the money from selling them to Azov, i'm wearing a somewhat worn out Azov T-Shirt as i am typing this*>>65466319That post wasn't me. *OK i wasn't wearing it when i started this post but i pulled it on half way through just so i wouldn't be a liar. TZD.
>>65466309Holy reddit spacing, Batman!
>>65466410>>65466423The DPRK will never listen to nonsense like you are broadcasting, they understand the 'firehose of disinformation' people like you spray out. Lucky for them they don't have to listen to it, they aren't listening because it is physically impossible for your bullshit to reach their ears. One of the greatest gifts the Kim Dynasty has given their people is protecting them from hearing the poison that things like you say.
Rapechink is a russian shill too?
>>65466473Oh shit, is this him?*Looks back at the half-dozen posts about Jap rapists*Okay, in hindsight, that does make sense.Kind of excited, actually. I've only arrived to the aftermath of his threads before.
Ha ha, holy fuck this is hysterical
oooo neat, a shizo thread
Rapechink meltie, his standard issue IJA sleeping mat ancestors cry out for vengeance.
they were enemies, saboteurs, adventurers, and traitors
>>65464150Poseidon cannot stand so much drunken sodomy less than a day out of port and his cold hands and trident reach out to remove such abominations from the seas
>>65464150Give the size of the Russian landmass and the fact that they tend to recruit from the poorest parts of Siberia, it's quite likely that the average Russian sailor had never seen the ocean in his life before he joined the navy.
>>65464150Disciplinary rape I assume.
>>65464150You're essentially why an animal acts according to its instincts. A cat can't help but chase a toy because its hunting instincts get activated by toys. A dog can be enticed to excited merriment by humans because it is its instinct.Likewise, being a useless naval nation of drunk, submissive homo sovieticuses obsessed by man ass and punitive homosexual rape is the instinct of the Russian.This is not to throw shade on cats and dogs, who are noble, caring creatures and friends to humanity. Russians are none of those things.
>>65466384Nah, no China involved here, so he wouldn't care. Must be his long lost russian cousin.
>>65466943Japan was mentioned, that was probably enough to set him off because of his>Japanese Grandfather
>>65464547It makes me wonder how Russia was kept together for centuries, when all they had were dirt roads and no infrastructure.Even with the Trans-Siberian Railway it took more than a week to cross the country.And thanks to climate change, the north is soon going to become sailable all year round, and Siberia is warming up - and quite soon, I read that by 2030, the northern seas will be open all year. God keeps handing these people w's, yet they manage to fuck it up somehow yet not badly enough to go away permanently.
