Man, can‘t think of a better channel to be receiving algorithmic love at this point!

@BlueJayYT

2 жыл бұрын

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@PakBallandSami

2 жыл бұрын

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@ericbyo9472

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I just got him recommended to me.

@piccalillipit9211

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah im commenting for the algo love...

@brandonmarthers

2 жыл бұрын

I love this channel

You left out one of the funniest parts. To help morale while sailing around Africa they bought all the sailors cigarettes only to find out that the cigarettes they bought were laced with opium. So all the sailor were getting high and addicted to opium. When the officers found out about there mistake they confiscated all the cigarettes leading to many sailors getting violently sick from withdrawals while detoxing

@monsecko4792

Жыл бұрын

source?

@icutthings649

Жыл бұрын

@@monsecko4792 ur nan

@likwidmagik

Жыл бұрын

@@icutthings649 LMAO!

@mnxs

Жыл бұрын

This is slightly incorrect, AFAIK. The opium-laced cigarettes was *smuggled* aboard by the crew; it wasn't a sanctioned procurement. But yes, they did have the pleasure of large swathes of the crew getting blasted on opium.

@pyropulseIXXI

Жыл бұрын

Opium is weak as hell. I've done oxys for an entire summer break and stopped when classes started up and didn't have withdrawals. I was high for literally one month every day

Favorite quote about the 2nd Pacific Squadron was when the Admiral made a remark about his first impression of the sailors; "half of these men know nothing, and the other half have forgotten everything"

@BlueJayYT

2 жыл бұрын

I love that quote haha I almost included it in the video

@samwecerinvictus

2 жыл бұрын

@Mail Degeese “Half of this lot knows nothing while the other half has forgotten everything, and on the rare occasion that they do remember something, it’s obsolete and out of date”

@athrowaway3487

2 жыл бұрын

Don't forget the Admiral he called "a vast empty space"

@robertfolkner9253

2 жыл бұрын

@@athrowaway3487 Or the one he referred-to as “A manure sack.”

@athrowaway3487

2 жыл бұрын

@@robertfolkner9253 I forgot that one!

FYI I'm Russian, and we wasn't taught this incident in detail, all we was told that Russo-Japanese war was the most disgraceful war in Russian history.

@ottersirotten4290

11 ай бұрын

I think the worst f*** up on Russias Side regarding the Russo-Japanese wasnt militarily but on the diplomatic Front, since the Dipülomats let that War happen in the first Place. Lets take a Look at the respective Intrests. Russia wants: One warm Water Harbour in the east(or basicly anywhere :D) Japan wants: east-Asia to be accepted as THEYRE Sphere of Influence, meaning no European Meddeling there. So given that Russia had no vital pol/imperial intrest in the far East beyond having ONE effing Harbour and Japan would had loved to have ONE friendly European Power. Russia and Japan were natural Allies with complimentary Intrests. The Incompetence by the Diplomats here is borderline Treason imo

@prabowodjojominarso6151

11 ай бұрын

I thought the most disgraceful war in russian history are the crieman war 😓😓 in 1853-1855

@KasumiRINA

11 ай бұрын

*most disgraceful war in russian history so far. Actually, that wasn't even it, losing first Chechen war to a country smaller than moscow and with basically no weapons, was even more disgraceful... And would have been, if not the 2-3 day special operation to take Kyiv that turned into 10-year siege of Mar'inka and Avdiivka.

@ottersirotten4290

11 ай бұрын

@@prabowodjojominarso6151 How so? They were defeated by a Coalition of Great Britain, France(Austria too?) and the Ottoman Empire, so not exactly a pushover of an military Coalition to say the least. Imo the only disgraceful thing about that particular War is that ANY European Country sided with the Ottoman Empire and thereby doomed large parts of south-east Europe to continue to suffer Ottoman Occupation... Btw: Thank you UK and France for ensuring that Constantinople stays Muslim forever :D

@ottersirotten4290

11 ай бұрын

@@fudgepacker2858 debatable

“With roughly 100 Japanese deaths” Does this mean that the Baltic fleet actually hit something?

@erwannthietart3602

Жыл бұрын

Well seeing as the Commander alone was more capable than the entire fleet he prolly did some shenanigans there lol

@435cyberteam9

Жыл бұрын

I like to imagine Britain just felt bad for Russia so asked Japan to fudge the numbers a bit to make it look like the Russians did something as to try and preserve a bit of their international prestige, at least a little bit

@BackYardScience2000

Жыл бұрын

I wouldn't doubt that it was a case of friendly fire on the Japanese side seeing as it was dark when it happened....

@bkjeong4302

Жыл бұрын

3 (actual) Japanese torpedo boats, and they did get in some hits in the Japanese flagship (albeit they failed to sink her).

@keithw4920

Жыл бұрын

Keith W 1 second ago There were some Japanese head injuries from what was widely reported as 'flying binoculars in the dark' by the injured. These reports were subsequently dismissed by Japanese Fleet HQ as post concussive trauma so are not in recorded history.

You gotta give them credit for even surviving the journey

@BlueJayYT

2 жыл бұрын

Well, some survived at least

@IgnoredAdviceProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Eeeeehhhhh.....bout that.....

@blinglog

2 жыл бұрын

@@magpie7373 it was either immense dedication to the cause or fear of the tzar, but either way they all get gold stars for effort

@tanith117

2 жыл бұрын

And then they got absolutely destroyed at Tsushima. 126000 tons sunk on the Russian side, vs 450 on the Japanese side.

@blinglog

2 жыл бұрын

@@tanith117 but they showed up, which is more than you could've expected

The cruel irony is that Rozhestvensky was one of the few good naval commanders Russia had and the only reason the Voyage of the Dammed even got to Tsushima is because he was actually skilled at his job

@bogdangabrielonete3467

2 жыл бұрын

Legend has it that one can trace back the entire voyage route, simply by following the path of pre WW1 binoculars randomly found at the bottom of the Oceans

@weldonwin

2 жыл бұрын

@@bogdangabrielonete3467 Or the trail of shells, fired by the Kamchatka at invisible Japanese Torpedo Boats

@bogdangabrielonete3467

2 жыл бұрын

@@weldonwin TORPEDO BOATS? WHERE?!?! 👀👀

@weldonwin

2 жыл бұрын

@@bogdangabrielonete3467 All around, from all directions!

@bogdangabrielonete3467

2 жыл бұрын

@@weldonwin I can count 8 of them ! OPENING FIRE !

Fun fact: A young Isoroku Yamamoto served on a cruiser during the battle of Tsushima. He lost 2 fingers to russian shells, if he’d lost a 3rd he would have been medically discharged from the navy. WW2 would have played out veeery differently all because of one finger

@kon8459

4 ай бұрын

Wasn't it the same for Admiral Nimitz?

@AtlasCrafted

4 ай бұрын

Hitler dodged many a bullet in WW1 including one that killed his close friend standing right beside him. Also survived a gas attack. It makes you wonder if this was the good turn out y'know? What if even more evil or ambitious potential leaders were killed instead of them? *duh duh duh*

@lillyie

3 ай бұрын

you're saying that russians actually hit something?

@painvillegaming4119

2 ай бұрын

@@lillyiehey even a broken clock is right twice a day

@CsGalaxyID

2 ай бұрын

​@@lillyie Pure luck I guess

I honestly feel so bad for Rozhestvensky. He was one of the few Russian admirals who would actually stick up for enlisted men if he found that they were being abused by their (aristocratic) officers. As mentioned by others, he was also pretty competent in general, and he was knocked out 30 minutes into the Battle of Tsushima and thus largely not responsible for the defeat, but he accepted responsibility anyway and died broke and disgraced later on. Also, while this video is a great summary, the absolutely horrible record of the Kamchatka cannot be stressed enough. That ship was such a fuckup that Rozhestvensky took to calling the ship the "lecherous whore" instead.

@goldietheswagbear8288

Жыл бұрын

one competent general sadly doesn't make everything else competent

@kyuven

Жыл бұрын

​@@goldietheswagbear8288 I'd be a bit worried if your most competent naval officer was a general, since that rank isn't a naval rank

@leftysheppey

Жыл бұрын

@@kyuven there's generals in the russain navy It's the air naval force and the ground naval force, but still...

@khaibutton

Жыл бұрын

If I was in command of this fleet, I'd have anger issues too.

@tobyalder42

Жыл бұрын

You'd better feel bad for Withöft. He led the Russian Pacific fleet in in the battle of Yellow Sea in 1904 and almost made a breakthrough towards Vladivostok before the Japanese shell tore him apart.

The parrot swearing in Russian is where I lost it

@dmitryberdnikov9130

2 жыл бұрын

It said “The enemies are coming from the east”

@maximilianolimamoreira5002

2 жыл бұрын

@@dmitryberdnikov9130 it really sounded likely it

@OAlemaozinho

2 жыл бұрын

I nearly died

@RandomTrinidadian

2 жыл бұрын

Awk! *cusses in russian!*

@birgaripadam7112

2 жыл бұрын

I lost in Denmark so yeah you endure it well

Well, it's nice to see their logistics haven't gotten any worse over time. /s

@fighter1375

2 жыл бұрын

One thing that’s timeless: Russian logistics

@PrincessYolda

2 жыл бұрын

Looks like this is the second dumbest russian voyage now

@mr.minecraft5154

2 жыл бұрын

Nah it’s way worse at least the ships made it to where they were going 😂

@matthewlong4943

2 жыл бұрын

@@mr.minecraft5154 you mean the bottom of the ocean? (Save for Avrora and two other ships)

@AsianEspionage

2 жыл бұрын

I think it's a wonder how they messed up so many times on different places and still not mess up on logistics

Someone should make this into a historical comedy movie, it’d be hilarious.

@CountScarlioni

Жыл бұрын

I'm honestly amazed it hasn't been. Someone needs to beg Armando Iannucci to write it. This could be a great follow up to The Death of Stalin!

@sr7129

Жыл бұрын

@@CountScarlioni OOOHHH. Now that’s an idea. I was thinking Taika Waititi would have a field day with this but Iannuci would be amazing

@Bestnightcoreofalltime

Жыл бұрын

Pls with the cast of death of Stalin 😂😂😂

@LauftFafa

Жыл бұрын

maybe out of respect to the deads lets not . they were all poor farmers drafted into the navy in a hurry since the pacific fleet was besieged . russians themselves didnt trust them and called most of the ships as "self sinking ships" so they were basically told to go and die for the motherland and these funny things were just what happen when you put a farmer who fear war into a warship . they started panicking before they did even reach danemark seeing all strange ships as hostile japanese boats

@jonathandewberry289

Жыл бұрын

@@LauftFafa sooo... too soon?

That Admiral Rozhestvensky actually got this mobile disaster as far as it did makes him worthy of deep respect.

@goldietheswagbear8288

Жыл бұрын

he was actually compentent, it's just that his men weren't.

@captainufo4587

Жыл бұрын

He was Russia's second best admiral (the best one, Stepan Makarow, was already fighting in the Pacific and in fact his death was the event that made Russia send the Baltic fleet as reinforcement). And not as in "ah ah, imagine how bad the others were"; he was actually capable, respected by the sailors, and had a strong sense of honor. Too bad the rest of the commanding officers were instead a bunch of aristocrat idiots who got their grades via corruption, friends in the right place, and nobility ties, and the sailors were literal rural conscripts who had never seen a ship.

@Gothic7876

Жыл бұрын

Not much has changed since then it seems

@bkjeong4302

11 ай бұрын

@@captainufo4587 Not only had the rural conscripts not seen ships before, they were illiterate and sometimes had no idea that the ocean existed.

@magni5648

6 ай бұрын

I'd already respect him for having the patience to not suffer a stroke out of sheer rage about having to deal with this shit.

Fun fact: During the battle of Tsushima, a young Isoroku Yamamoto lost two fingers. Had he lost one more, he would have been deemed unfit for the navy, which might drastically change history.

@iwanwillemse7703

2 жыл бұрын

funfact a bullet just scraped his head if it had hit him between his eyes nagasaki MIGHT and bla bla blA AND IF THE ROOSE COULD WALK HE werent no cripple stop with the BS already pliease

@nicholausbuthmann1421

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, History is full of that sort of thing........I wonder how many times Rommel came close to similar matters.

@Chrischi3TutorialLPs

2 жыл бұрын

@@nicholausbuthmann1421 Probably a lot. Keep in mind, he was a stormtrooper during WW1.

@DrZaius3141

Жыл бұрын

Fun facts and all, but in reality history is almost never defined by single people. If one person hadn't been around, a very similar person would've taken their place. I'd argue that historical figures only ever affected time frames, never outcomes. Imagine the old "killing baby Hitler" thing - Germany at that time was extremely nationalistic, militaristic, xenophobic and suffered economically. There was never a peaceful way out of the Treaty of Verasailles with the atmosphere in the country, it simply had to be Fascism.

@prince-solomon

Жыл бұрын

@@DrZaius3141 " If one person hadn't been around, a very similar person would've taken their place. " You don't know that, nobody does. Pure conjecture. That's it. Don't make statements that you can't possibly back up with solid arguments & evidence. Fact is, there were those SINGLE INDIVIDUALS in history who CHANGED history and we still vividly remember today (e.g.: Hitler).

I heard a legend that, as the Admiral lay in hospital, he asked one of his captors if they sank the Kamchatka in the battle. The Japanese officer responded that they had, and reportedly the Admiral sighed in relief and thanked his captor.

My favorite part was “they were afraid of being ambushed by Japanese torpedo boats… near Denmark.”

You left out one of my favorite parts of the Dogger Bank Incident - after the British trawlers limped home, the British Admiralty *lost its shit* and sent the ENTIRE BRITISH HOME FLEET after the Russians. The Home Fleet alone was larger than the entire Russian Navy, nevermind the bitty little Baltic Fleet, and was made up of the largest and most advanced ships the British had. I think it was something like the Russian Baltic fleet had six battleships to the Home Fleet’s twenty-seven. Like imagine that for a second, being a Russian sailor probably already knowing that you’re sailing to your doom against the Japanese, waking up, looking out back, and seeing the most powerful fleet of the most powerful naval power in the world bearing down on your dinky little flotilla because you were stupid enough to fire on some British fishers accidentally and then were subsequently stupid enough to sail away rather than rendering aid.

@bkjeong4302

Жыл бұрын

It gets even better. The British ALSO sent the Mediterranean Fleet (which was ALSO bigger than the entire Russian navy of the time) after the Russians, and the admiral in charge of the operation figured just four of his British battleships could destroy the entire Second Pacific Squadron.

@RogueShadows

Жыл бұрын

@@bkjeong4302 Just, a comedy of errors from beginning to end.

@PhilippBrandAkatosh

Жыл бұрын

@bluejay pls update that

@luisf2793

9 ай бұрын

The Brits had the last laugh though since I believe many of the Japanese ships were actually purchased from Britain

@allewis4008

9 ай бұрын

​@@luisf2793Not just purchased, the Japanese officers went to school in Britain to be taught modern naval warfare

Best part was left out IMO - It's about the Russian repair ship (Kamchatka, a lead actor in this comedy) getting separated from the fleet for 3 days. When it finally found it's way back near Morocco, the captain was like "it's about time we found you guys; We fired hundreds of rounds at three Japanese warships and barely escaped with our lives!" Turns out they fired at a Swedish, a French and a German merchant ship, nearly alienating the whole of Europe by itself in a few hours. Perchance the gunners were just as incompetent as the captain. Ha ha ha.

@bkjeong4302

2 жыл бұрын

That could have started WWI a decade early and with Britain and Germany on the same side…..

@musaran2

2 жыл бұрын

Were they even aware there were other people than Japanese on the sea?

@sherk3286

2 жыл бұрын

@@musaran2 a russian peasant in 1905 mighr not have known there were countries outside russia before the war lol

@MoonfirePone

2 жыл бұрын

The Kamchatka is my favorite comedy

@MoonfirePone

2 жыл бұрын

@Ashakita Russian ship fired at European merchants thinking they were Japanese

As a Finnish person I can gladly attest we were all told this story in history class.

@sneakyinvader4454

Жыл бұрын

Gotta love the Finnish for shitting on Russia in history class

@sanneberg1728

Жыл бұрын

I'll bet just about anything that this isn't taught in Russia's history classes.

@sablatnic8030

Жыл бұрын

@@sneakyinvader4454 I am Danish, and was told about it too.

@mnxs

Жыл бұрын

@@sablatnic8030 I too am Danish, and I wasn't (I think).

@sablatnic8030

Жыл бұрын

@@mnxs I'm old and went to school in the 60s, when it was a rather recent disaster. That could be the reason for telling us.

And suddenly it makes a lot more sense how a nation that doesn't even have a navy managed to sink a Russian warship in 2022

@marcofava

Жыл бұрын

Not any warship, a flagship of the Russian Fleet

@Bruh-td7ex

11 ай бұрын

​@@marcofavanot to woosh but thats the flag ship for the blacksea fleet but still, they lost a cruiser.

@marcofava

11 ай бұрын

@@Bruh-td7ex YEah exactly what i meant of four russian fleets one has lost it's flagship

@Bruh-td7ex

11 ай бұрын

@@marcofava oh, should have read it but that's for clarification

@Bruh-td7ex

10 ай бұрын

@@allahuackbera you do realize neptune missile are made in Ukraine.

Good thing to see that the Russian navy has remained consistent over the past century.

@nocturne7371

Жыл бұрын

Yes in 1981 a Soviet Baltic submatine got stranded deep into Swedish waters.

@volodymyrzakolodyazhny7740

10 ай бұрын

Deep russian navi traditions.

@danh6720

4 ай бұрын

@@nocturne7371and was possibly sold to Pepsi afterwards, going from whiskey on the rocks to whiskey and cola.

In his defense, Admiral Rozhestvensky was one of the few competent admirals in the Russian navy, despite his temper. He was convinced from the get go the whole operation was dumb, bad and would end in disaster. He did everything he could to make sure his ships were as ready as possible including gunnery practice every chance they got, although with results similar to the one time you did mention, making sure to clean off the coal dust from the mass they left on deck before battle to avoid it catching fire if shot, trying to avoid combat and simply slip into Vladivostok without engaging the Japanese, and intentionally trying to ditch a second fleet of reinforcements so obsolete they'd only slow him down out of battle and sink in it. But he was given what was basically a suicide mission, so there's not much he could've done to change the outcome.

@BlueJayYT

2 жыл бұрын

You’re not wrong, he was competent. Although from my understanding, he didn’t run gunnery practice all that often due to ammunition shortages. They were only given ammo for the battle ahead, and they’d already wasted a lot in incidents like Dogger Bank. But overall yes, he was a competent admiral given a bad hand.

@dingusdean1905

2 жыл бұрын

@@BlueJayYT You’re absolutely right. I probably should have said “In the few chances he got” rather than “Every chance”, since that makes it sound like he wasn’t extremely limited in the times he could do it. Interestingly enough he managed to survive the battle, and was visited by Togo in hospital. When he got back to st. Petersburg, the entire command was put on trial for the failure, and despite everything he claimed complete and total responsibility, covering for his more incompetent subordinates who he had been chucking binoculars at during the voyage even though it meant the death penalty.

@BlueJayYT

2 жыл бұрын

At the end of the day he was a good man for sure!

@wheelmanv

2 жыл бұрын

Really did him dirty in the video though

@dingusdean1905

2 жыл бұрын

@@wheelmanv It was played up a bit for comedic effect. Gotta have the tainment part of Edu-tainment after all

Don’t forget the first officer who lost his mind on the voyage, and began to wander the deck of the ship, half naked, asking random passers by if they feared death. Not a reference, not a lie, truth is weirder than fiction. Also the image of a bunch of Russians in the Siberian tundra opening boxes expecting winter duds and instead getting crates packed with large caliber artillery shells is hilarious af

@park5782

2 жыл бұрын

That’s so fucking funny

@davidtoledotremblay7962

2 жыл бұрын

@@casualsatanist also the american soldiers in korea expecting ammo but found crates full of tootsie rolls

@chasm671

2 жыл бұрын

Wait, is that where the Pirates of the Caribbean writers got the idea?

@casualsatanist

2 жыл бұрын

@@chasm671 presumably, though I would guess there were less tentacles involved

@chasm671

2 жыл бұрын

@@casualsatanist I don't know, they were at war with Japan.

This needs to be a movie in the same vein as "The Death of Stalin".

You left out the best part about the Dogger Bank incident: The *entire* British Navy at anchor in Scapa Flow was under way within 12 hours of the trawlers being attacked, steaming south at all possible speed. There really, really was almost war between the UK and Russia and that would've been such a trip.

@TomFynn

8 ай бұрын

"Well, where is this Russian Fleet? I can't see it." "We ran over it, Sir." "Did we? Good thing, too."

@aircraftcarrierwo-class

8 ай бұрын

​@@TomFynn One of my favorite trivia bits about the Baltic Fleet is that Rozhdestvensky left a large number of ships behind because they were old, dated junkers that he called the "Sinks-by-Itself Squadron". And then the Admiralty sent them through the Suez to reinforce him while his fleet was going around Africa and he spent months evading them.

@bkjeong4302

14 күн бұрын

Not only did they come insanely close to a war, both of the two British fleets sent out were individually far larger than the entire Russian navy.

@aircraftcarrierwo-class

14 күн бұрын

@@bkjeong4302 The admiral in charge of the British said he could take on all the Russians at once with just a handful of ships. I think 6? Given the vast gulf in training, I believe it.

@bkjeong4302

14 күн бұрын

@@aircraftcarrierwo-class 4 actually, and since they somehow caused more casualties to themselves when shooting at an unarmed neutral stationary civilian fleet, I’d argue even that’s overkill.

Im russian and when i found out about this part of our history, i couldn’t believe the sheer stupidity of such a maneuver. And when u start learning about the details, oh boy..

@martinpenwald9475

2 жыл бұрын

Do you know the story of the WWII destroyer USS William D. Porter? Its crew almost inadvertantly killed president Roosevelt. Twice. During war time. And that's not the most stupid they did.

@Samski1987

2 жыл бұрын

@@martinpenwald9475 haha no i haven't heard about this story, i will look into it. thanks for bringing it up. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity (c) :)

@martinpenwald9475

2 жыл бұрын

@@Samski1987 In both cases, the incompetency comes from the higher-ups who didn't want to spend time and money in training.

@dofehino5444

2 жыл бұрын

id assume they do all that so that the chiefs make them return

@seawind930

2 жыл бұрын

@@martinpenwald9475 Can't believe the Captain made Rear Admiral and the Ship kept fighting in the war and died to a Kamikaze attack.

You left out one of the best parts. One of the cruisers (Vladivostok, IIRC) managed to escape the carnage of the battle. But its crew was so scared of the pursuing Japanese, that they sank the cruiser. Or rather, tried to, because they failed even at that, running the ship aground instead. A few weeks later, they managed to reach Port Arthur. On foot. Without their ship.

@rxonmymind8362

2 жыл бұрын

I can only laugh...🤣

@spamquisition4046

Жыл бұрын

Well, some of them accomplished their objective of reaching the port at least lmao

@simonnachreiner8380

Жыл бұрын

You had One Job

@rawpotato1767

Жыл бұрын

You.. WHAT?

@realhuman5688

Жыл бұрын

wtf lol

On one hand, throwing binos overboard is a really bad practice, but on the other hand, considering the quality of his crew Im kinda surprised that he did not suffer a stroke long before the voyage even started.

@bkjeong4302

Жыл бұрын

It’s a testament to his skill that he actually managed to drag this trainwreck all the way to Tsushima.

@peterfireflylund

9 ай бұрын

I think his second in command did.

@seanbigay1042

Ай бұрын

@@bkjeong4302 Calling the voyage of the 2nd Pacific Squadron a trainwreck is an insult to all trainwrecks everywhere.

I remember when my history teacher told us this story in history class - took about 10 minutes and it was absolutely hilarious. Loved it.

@nocturne7371

Жыл бұрын

Every history techer should have this story as a thing to tell when students need a great laugh.

I once attempted to sign up for the Russian navy. Unfortunately, as I was able to give an accurate definition of what a ship was, I was immediately disqualified.

@raven4k998

Жыл бұрын

lol you were to smart I love it explains why the Russian military is so stupid on the battle field🤣

@keen8549

Жыл бұрын

​@@raven4k998 *too *Battlefield

@raven4k998

Жыл бұрын

@@keen8549 love is a Battlefield battlefield battlefield🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@andrewince8824

10 ай бұрын

I tried to join the Russian Infantry but I can tell my arse from a building full of civilians so that left me overqualified.

@donaldgraham6414

9 ай бұрын

A Russian ship or a NATO ship? Huge difference. NATO ships float.

Nice to see they've fixed their logistical issues, major lapses of discipline, tendency to fire on civilians, and penchant for nearly starting world wars with their terrible aim.

@grantbarday5760

Жыл бұрын

Given what just happened with Russia and Britain, this comment is even funnier

@akbeal

Жыл бұрын

Hahaha

@zacharytracy3797

Жыл бұрын

Oh that’s ESPECIALLY juicy after they fired a missile that landed in Poland and killed two people.

@grantbarday5760

Жыл бұрын

@@zacharytracy3797 it was confirmed to be a Ukrainian missile

@DreamskyDance

Жыл бұрын

At this point Russia is just a comic villan of the world...like team rocket from pokemon or something like that.

Imagine the thoughts of those fishermen at Dogger Bank, who had no clue wtf was happing lol "Are we at war?" "Since when?" "Whose bloody ships are those?" "Are they firing warning shots?" 10 min later "Why are they still firing warning shots?"

@TomFynn

7 ай бұрын

"Are we Japanese torpedo boats?" "No." "Bloody foreigners."

This was the craziest russian expedition until "Kyiv in 3 days".

@Bakarost

3 ай бұрын

Weak post

@praphet6669

3 ай бұрын

​@@BakarostNah its true

@Bakarost

3 ай бұрын

@@praphet6669 no, its not, its a typical left wing slander. Didnt even spell the capital right. Its Kiev. Crazist russian expedition would be expanding into sibera. Basically = the us west. But go ahead and get your browine points from your political faction. Wont help anything at all

@praphet6669

3 ай бұрын

@@Bakarost Ok

@ghostcreeper243

Ай бұрын

@@Bakarostoh great another hardline fascist conservative wannabe

The parrot bit killed me, and I can't believe the bit at the end with misidentifying the Japanese battleship. The whole thing is just a Cohen Brothers movie.

@user-zv4jf8ag8p

2 жыл бұрын

The whole Russia thing is just a Cohen Brothers movie.

@coldown_ivan4864

2 жыл бұрын

Now i need this

@seanbigay1042

Ай бұрын

Wait ... the parrot bit and killed you?

By the way, Japan attacked Port Arthur without warning nor declaration of war. This strategy was hailed at the time by the British as "brilliant", because, you know, Japan would not dare repeating the same strategy against anybody else, right ?

@maxthexpfarmer3957

2 жыл бұрын

To be fair, I don’t think Russia was particularly angry about it.

@WlatPziupp

2 жыл бұрын

Is history really so full of mostly morons that attacking without telling them you're about to attack was hailed as a brilliant strategy?

@alecshockowitz8385

2 жыл бұрын

@@WlatPziupp Attacking without telling an opponent that you are declaring war is a VERY bad move diplomatically. It completely alienates and isolates you diplomatically from the rest of the world, and every other country will react MUCH more harshly to events that could lead to war, but usually don't. If the Russians had a reputation for attacking before declaring war, the British navy might have just sunk the Russian navy in this video, instead of simply blocking off the Suez to them, for instance. Slight advantage in a war, but BIG BIG costs, and it rarely pays off, as seen in Pearl Harbor.

@Daeyae

2 жыл бұрын

@@alecshockowitz8385 pearl harbour was a japanese victory, wdym it didnt pay off? They sunk and damaged a bunch of ships and then ran circles around the Americans got months afterwards

@alecshockowitz8385

2 жыл бұрын

@@Daeyae They literally didn't meet any of their goals for the battle. They failed to sink the enemy carriers the main objective. They attacked an enemy who effectively had their eyes closed for the combat, I would count it at best as a slight Japanese victory.

october 2022, we are witnessing the russian black sea fleet being crippled by a country without a navy yet another shinning accomplishment in russian naval history

@temkin9298

8 ай бұрын

Russia: I want warm seas Sea: I don't like you Octupus face: Ah, another love story for the ages. Calipso: I still want your heart. Pirates of the Baltic: The Flaming Port

@monkofdarktimes

5 ай бұрын

Wait Ukraine never had a navy

@dessirangelova2676

3 ай бұрын

Ukraine had a navy but it was destroyed also what are you even talking about ukraine has only destroyed like 3 russian ships

@PabloVelasco-hr3ko

22 күн бұрын

the issue of having a conscript based army and a corrupt officer class

As a Russian, I’m not saying I’m ashamed, but definitely not surprised that everything went the way it did

@pneumon6990

10 ай бұрын

Tbf it was ordered by Nikolas Tsar...

@vladnegin5918

10 ай бұрын

@@pneumon6990 his wife would make a better tsar than him

@RW77777777

9 ай бұрын

Homer: what's the opposite of shame? Bart: pride??? Homer no, no that's too far... Bart less shame??? Homer Yes; less shame

@peterclarke7240

6 ай бұрын

As a brit, I can say, with a heavy heart, that having realistic expectations of your country's capabilities (or lack thereof) is something we share. 🤣

Lol! I'm dying laughing from the rapid switch at the end "while our gallant sailors hold their own against the Japa - The baltic fleet was *decimated*' This channel is awesome!

@BlueJayYT

2 жыл бұрын

Haha I'm glad you liked it!

@ArousedRat1

2 жыл бұрын

@@BlueJayYT you are good.

@DawnOfTheDead991

2 жыл бұрын

It was quite more than decimated or 1/10th of the ships were sunk.

@drakkenmensch

Жыл бұрын

"Way to go buddy, let's add that one to the scoreboard... oh. *Oh dear.* "

Russian sailors: "I fear no man, but that *Thing* ..." *[looks to the repair ship Kamchatka]* "It scares me."

@BlueJayYT

2 жыл бұрын

The greatest terror of the high seas

@MrSleepy677

2 жыл бұрын

Do you see Torpedo boats?

@DerpyPenguin4747

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrSleepy677 I have a shirt depicting the Kamchatka saying "do you see torpedo boats?"

@MrSleepy677

2 жыл бұрын

@@DerpyPenguin4747 Drachinifel?

@keithharper32

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrSleepy677 No, I don't see any torpedo boats. OPEN FIRE!!!

It's a joy to see the Russian military still strives for the same stellar strategies today.

@carlycrays2831

11 ай бұрын

Wait, they use strategies?

@KasumiRINA

11 ай бұрын

@@carlycrays2831 One of most popular is "scuttle our entire navy at Sevastopol so enemy won't take them". Nakhimov was praised for that so much a cruise ship was named after it... SS Admiral Nakhimov. Look it up... It never left port. Just drowned, with all the people on it.

@johanstjern4118

8 ай бұрын

Strategies? I thought Russia played this 5d chess every vatnik is talking about.

@johanstjern4118

8 ай бұрын

Gesture of good will.

Bluejay: "Marking the first time in history that an eastern power defeated a European one." Genghis Khan: "Am I joke to you?"

@JLS639

Жыл бұрын

If Bluejay does any videos on Genghis Khan? Yes

@whathell6t

Жыл бұрын

@@JLS639 Cue the Mongol montage

@KasumiRINA

11 ай бұрын

Wasn't that Batu? Temujin never really went into Europe, no?

@UnDead483

11 ай бұрын

@@KasumiRINA Personally? No. Though Temujin authorized a 'great raid' undertaken by his generals Subutai and Jebe in 1220. They made it as far west as the outskirts of modern Kiev and inflicted several defeats on the Georgians and Rus. Most of the subsequent Mongol campaigns against Europe were undertaken during Ogedei's reign, I believe.

@brandonlyon730

8 ай бұрын

Ottoman Empire: Am I am even bigger joke?

I'm kinda upset that you didn't cover all of Kamchatka's achievements. She was the greatest ship of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

@hadracks

2 жыл бұрын

This is an irony video and defeating people who shoot each other does not seem a major achievement.

@GaldirEonai

2 жыл бұрын

@@hadracks The Kamchatka was part of Rozhestvensky's fleet. Technically.

@hadracks

2 жыл бұрын

@@GaldirEonai I just looked up the Kamchatka and see why it was so helpful to the Japanese navy. It had a terrible record.

@masterskrain2630

2 жыл бұрын

Do you see Torpedo Boats???

@MonkeyJedi99

2 жыл бұрын

@@masterskrain2630 "We're sinking!" - "Oh wait, just a leaky steam pipe."

Russians: Theres one thing that scares me *pans over to Norwegian fishing ships* Russians: Japanese torpedo boats…

@Bacopa68

2 жыл бұрын

And no thought how Japan would get torpedo boats to Norway or Doggerland.

@craigstephenson7676

2 жыл бұрын

@@Bacopa68 ninjutsu

@ritikshaw5868

2 жыл бұрын

@@craigstephenson7676 Flying Raijin Jutsu

@nathanwilcut3360

2 жыл бұрын

No it's the kamchatka russia navy has never used the name since

@Tatwinus

2 жыл бұрын

They are also afraid of islands in the baltic. Like that time they actually managed to get a submarine stuck on swedish land while spying.

You'd think Russian incompetence was a Soviet heritage, but seems like it's in their character from olden days.

@Darkgun231

8 ай бұрын

You can change change the Russian government, but you can't change the Russian spirit!

You have to appreciate that the Russian Navy said, "Yeah, this is working. Let's make this our primary strategy." This stellar process lives on to this day. The Admiral of the Russian fleet was killed today in Crimea.

@BrianWestlakes

4 ай бұрын

Did this tragic event take place near a river? A Crimea river? 🤣

Rochovinsky was actually a pretty good officer and was really the only one with any sense. He personally ran around yelling at gunners to hold fire during the donner bank incident. But he could not ever be free or his achilles heel... The komchatka. The levels of stupidity reached by that single ship eclipses anything ever seen by man.

@pitioti

Жыл бұрын

I feel pity for this man that got litteraly send to a painfully long journey where he was sure to die.

@Jotari

Жыл бұрын

It was really just because of a single ship! Man, that needs to be made into a feature length comedy.

@goldietheswagbear8288

Жыл бұрын

no wonder why he was so angry you would get angry too if you had to deal with that shit.

@scooterdescooter4018

10 ай бұрын

"do you see torpedo boats?"

@garethmurtagh2814

8 ай бұрын

I’ve just looked it up, built as a collier, converted to a repair ship, hardly an auspicious beginning! 🤣🤣🤣

Russian fleet: nobody wilp defeat us. Fishing boat: *comes* Russian fleet: *Panik*

@cookiesupervisor2211

2 жыл бұрын

... Russian are making World of Warships ...

@adankmeme651

2 жыл бұрын

@@cookiesupervisor2211 ironic

@hawkeye5955

2 жыл бұрын

@@adankmeme651 : After the mass exodus of the CCs from WoWs, it seems WG is on its way to sinking itself.

@adankmeme651

2 жыл бұрын

@@hawkeye5955 yep

Imagine commanding a Russian fleet in the early 19th century only to discover that the crew are imperial storm troopers in disguise.

@93MANIAC

Жыл бұрын

Dude don't compare the sailors to Imperial Storm Troopers even they had better aim then our Russian friends had

@archer8849

Жыл бұрын

20th century

So... nothing's changed then.

Oh boy, this channel was a find. The algorithm finally got it right. Much love from Brazil!

@BlueJayYT

2 жыл бұрын

That’s great to hear, thank you so much! I actually was curious if I had a part Brazilian audience, I have a question for you: what do Brazilians think of Dom Pedro II? I’ve been reading about him some recently

@gabrielalmeida5047

2 жыл бұрын

Encontrar você aqui foi definitivamente a maior surpresa da minha semana. Fico feliz de saber q tenho um gosto parecido com o do meu youtuber favorito :b

@gabrielalmeida5047

2 жыл бұрын

​@@BlueJayYT I once saw a video that said he was very smart, and wasn't as much of an asshole (for a monarch standard). And that's literally everything i know about him.

@thiagowillian4452

2 жыл бұрын

@@BlueJayYT He has a pretty cool guy, opened some schools, a lot of these schools function to these days, he commanded the army and won a war between us and Paraguay (we had an alliance with Argentina and Uruguay to stop Paraguay, but the majority of the battles happened in our grounds) he spoked 15 languages (I don't exactly how many, but it has a lot of languages) he has trained since birth to be Emperor. He has hold at high regard at the time by the general population, and Brazil at the time has hold at high regards in Europe, but after they abolished the slavery they suffered a Coup d´Etat by the republicans who ran the coffee plantations. For some reason, no one fought for the royal family, it was a very peaceful Coup in comparison to others around the world And after the Coup d´Etat happened, he returned to Europe, and died in Paris, France (pneumonia) and his last words has ''God, grant me these last wishes peace and prosperity to Brazil''. While they prepared his body to be buried, they found a message and a package with it that said: '' This is the soil of my land, I wish that to be placed on my coffin''. The package had soil of the provinces of all Brazilian lands. So.... in a nutshell for us history dudes, he has generally seen as a cool dude with the best of intentions but, for the average Brazilian today, they just don’t care to look at his history.

@thiagowillian4452

2 жыл бұрын

@@BlueJayYT There is a great video about him kzread.info/dash/bejne/hoF6p9egfZWnnto.html

I love how nobody trained them for something as basic as identifying a hostile ship

@user-ji1if8qj6n

Жыл бұрын

as we can see now, history repeats itself

@bkjeong4302

Жыл бұрын

Oh, it gets better. Most of the sailors were literally illiterate conscripts who didn’t know that oceans and seas existed.

@keen8549

Жыл бұрын

​@@user-ji1if8qj6n nope, not today

@joseayala2940

11 ай бұрын

Exactly!!

@AndrewGivens

11 ай бұрын

In fairness, the many, many Russian torpedo boats they'd seen before this war cruise (which were very like the enemy ones they'd soon be 'seeing' everywhere), with low, sleek silhouette and turtleback bows - some might almost say 'dagger-like' - *did* look incredibly similar to the short, stocky, comically tall-funnelled & high-bowed - some might almost say 'crescent-shaped' - trawlers they actually saw everywhere.

The truly amazing thing about this video? It's from 2021. That is, the year BEFORE Russia started a war in which it kept losing its naval units (including the "state of the art" flagship) to a country with no navy.

and here we are in the modern day, where a Russian flag ship was sunk by a country that doesn't have a navy

This has a potential to be turned into a comedy tv series. Pure gold.

@ezorod8060

2 жыл бұрын

And we even got a season 2 now.

@ivanmoiseiev

2 жыл бұрын

@@ezorod8060 season 3 already.

@MrAaronvee

2 жыл бұрын

Ridiculous idea; this just has to be a movie! As a bonus, Putin would be sure to think that it was indirectly making fun of him.

@ChrisK312

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrAaronvee A Mini Series. There´s too much for a movie but not enough for a real series. But 4 or 5 one hour episodes would be great.

@MrAaronvee

2 жыл бұрын

@@ChrisK312 And who do you see in the lead roles?

I knew immediately that this was going to be about the Battle of Tsushima voyage xD . Goes to show that only truth is stranger - and funnier - than fiction xD .

@j.f.fisher5318

2 жыл бұрын

omg yes. The Kamchatka et al. I haven't even watched and I'm already laughing out loud hahahahaha.

@philvanderlaan5942

2 жыл бұрын

Do you see torpedo boats ?

@germanyjones2700

2 жыл бұрын

Drachifinel has some good stuff on this one. The bit about the binoculars was too good.

@philvanderlaan5942

2 жыл бұрын

@@germanyjones2700 ‘ …. And then things got worse. ‘

@OnlyKaerius

2 жыл бұрын

This has to be the second funniest voyage I ever heard about, after the epic booze trip of the USS Constitution, with the added benefit of being true.

This needs to be a movie or TV show. Especially today.

This content aged well, very well, like a fine wine.

You've spoken so much about this fleet's incompetence, but when they manage to bring a *venomous* snake on board from *Madagascar,* even you have to admit that takes talent. They must've found the ONE mamba on the whole island, in a zoo in Antananarivo, and successfully pilfered it. Oh, and did I mention that Tana is in the Malagasy highlands in the middle of the island?

@bkjeong4302

2 жыл бұрын

I actually think they started bringing their exotic pets aboard in Africa (Russian sources indicate such), where black mambas live. Or they picked up a Leioheterodon in Madagascar: those are only mildly venomous.

@Meregolo

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, my thoughts exactly! My rule of thumb for geagraphically placing unfamiliar animals is: Weird af + wants to kill you > Australia Weird af + doesn't want to kill you > Madagascar I couldn't really process how they managed to find a deadly snake in Madagascar.

@itscurved567

2 жыл бұрын

Don't forget the crocodiles brought on board.

@onamattapeeya

2 жыл бұрын

@Alan Lewis well everyone has to have hopes and dreams ☺️

@zimriel

2 жыл бұрын

@Alan Lewis it's also possible it wasn't a venomous snake but that the bite was infected. infected snakebites can kill you just as dead.

I like how there are actual constellations on the starry sky, not just random dots, it's a really nice touch.

@BlueJayYT

2 жыл бұрын

I like to put work into my drawings :)

Japan to Russia "You don't seem to understand, China Isn't Yours to conquer".

@TomFynn

Жыл бұрын

China to Japan: Nor yours.

Another thing about the coal on the deck, it coated the ships in coal dust, resulting in them becoming huge Fuel-Air Explosives during the Battle of Tsushima.

This wasnt the Russo-Japanese war! It was a Russo-Japanese "Special Operation"

@FirstnameLastname-vd5cw

2 жыл бұрын

And that's going just as well as this fantastic voyage...

@wolfgangpagel6989

2 жыл бұрын

Only a Russian one. The Japanese just happened to be in the way.

@sto1238

2 жыл бұрын

They were simply trying to denazify the IJN!

@yosecretsquirrel

2 жыл бұрын

Special? As in Special Olympics?

@billfarmer7984

2 жыл бұрын

Japan loved sneak attacks then.

IM NEVER GETTING OVER THE RUSSIAN PARROT, IM SOBBING

There's a scene where they cut a underwater cable with an anchor. There's probably a story there where they couldn't figure out why one of the ships was moving slow until they figured out they had a anchor deployed.

@RogueShadows

Жыл бұрын

It happened after Dogger Bank. The British Admiralty flipped its shit and launched the entire British Home Fleet against the Baltic Fleet. The Home Fleet was by itself larger than the entire Russian Navy and made up of the largest and most powerful ships in the British Navy. They forced the Baltic Fleet to make port in the French colony at Algiers until the Russians could 1) Apologize profusely enough, and 2) pay Britain enough money to not sink their ships in retaliation. Bunch of Russians running around French Algeria went about as well as you’d expect. I’m sure the Kamchatka did something funny. But anyway when finally the British had been paid off and the Russian fleet got underway, one of their anchors severed the telegraph cable connecting Algiers to France. I get the sense that the local French governor was probably watching them leave, glad to finally be rid of them, then hearing shouting and seeing the Russians sever the cable as they’re leaving. And he just kind of sighs.

If I was in charge of the Russian Baltic Fleet I'm sure I'd have anger issues too.

@altsyung

3 ай бұрын

Me too 😂😂😂

Ah, Kamchatka. The greatest Japanese ship in the Russian navy

@gabrielho1874

9 ай бұрын

How did that got captured, what happened?

@terrancehood5292

4 ай бұрын

​@@gabrielho1874 Obligatory r/wooosh joke. Now that that's out of the way, he made that joke because the Kamchatka was such a detriment to it's own fleet due to the incompetence of it's crew.

2:13 "This group of inexperienced conscripts..." and "f & ck it, what better way than a trial by fire, right?" Me in 2022: Yep, the foreshadow is strong with this one.

Russian gunnery hasn't improved much over the last century.

@KasumiRINA

11 ай бұрын

Or drone aim. Like I know several places hit by drones and BOI that McDonalds really could use a redecoration, no?

yeah, that's pretty much the best way to make an abridged version of Drachinifel's video about that trainwreck

@the13inquisitor59

2 жыл бұрын

Eyyyy.

@117steveng

2 жыл бұрын

That video had me laughing so hard

@kieranh2005

2 жыл бұрын

@@the13inquisitor59 you have to watch the Drachinifel video. It's called: Voyage of the Damned

@dchegu

2 жыл бұрын

Throw binoculars in anger into the sea

@jeffhousen8968

2 жыл бұрын

@@kieranh2005 and the second half kzread.info/dash/bejne/dIykzJine5jfnNI.html just when they thought it couldn't get any worse KAMCHATKAAAAA!!!!

As a sailor I struggle to comprehend this level of incompetence, these days everything is so precise in modern western navies that even slight mess ups bring huge shouts of incompetence.

@angelarch5352

2 жыл бұрын

except Msokva... oh you said "Western" navies, never mind,

@thelastholdout

Жыл бұрын

While the enlisted were mostly untrained farmers and other peasants, the officers had their ranks literally just because they were sons of aristocrats. The incompetence was at every level in the Imperial Russian Navy.

@occamraiser

Жыл бұрын

It's a function of training and Vodka.

@goldietheswagbear8288

Жыл бұрын

@@thelastholdout and they don't seem to have improved

I just hope Private Camo survived, he seemed like a competant and well mannered seaman.

😂 Russia has a long history of sending untrained people into war

I love how they, not only, almost sparked a war with the LARGEST NAVAL POWER IN EXISTENCE at the time, but they also almost kicked off a war with: France, Germany and Sweden by attacking their merchant ships.

@accckiy

2 жыл бұрын

Well that proves the point - "Don't stand on a Russian way!"

@youraveragescotsman7119

2 жыл бұрын

@@accckiy Well, you can. They'll just shoot at you and completely miss for the next 20 minutes.

@Darca1n

2 жыл бұрын

What makes it even funnier is that on the second occasion they managed to nearly do this. Yes, the second occasion, the utter incompetence of the ships was so blatant that they were kinda just told to please leave as quickly as possible so they wouldn't be causing more trouble.

Innaffective Russian Military operations.. The more things change the more they stay the same...

And now the russian Black See fleet proudly took the torch and is already half-obliterated by the nation without any navy at all.

@KolyaUrtz

10 күн бұрын

today you dont need navies to fight navies. Argument "lol ukraine doesnt have a navy..etc" makes no sense considering they took it with anti ship land to sea missile. Also only 10-15% of black sea fleet has been destroyed...while 100% of ukrainian fleet has been destroyed. Your ridicule of the rus makes no sense as it always doesnt.

The part where that parrot swore in Russian got both me and my friend in class 😂

The "Voyage of the Damned" would make a great inspiration for a comedy. Also, the main reason for why many neutral ships were mistaken for Japanese torpedo boats was because of mass hysteria and drinking a little too much vodka from the captain and crew of the supposed repair ship Kamchatka (nicknamed by Admiral Rozhestvensky as "Lecherous Sl*t"). Edit: Accually did some more searching around and it turns out that most of incidents were all involving the Kamchatka and the only good thing it's ever done is just absorb Japanese shells + sinking at Tsushima.

@MrSleepy677

2 жыл бұрын

Do you see Torpedo boats?

@bogdangabrielonete3467

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrSleepy677 8 of the actually. They have us surrounded !

@nukclear2741

2 жыл бұрын

@@bogdangabrielonete3467 WE’RE SINKING! Oh wait, it was a broken steam pipe.

Russia’s real only claim to being the Third Rome is apparently their shared inability to use boats

@FirstnameLastname-vd5cw

2 жыл бұрын

And apparently tanks, land vehicles, pretty much anything that would make a good target for NLAWS...

@neshirst-ashuach1881

2 жыл бұрын

Theres a video going around of Ukrainian soldiers destroying a Russian helicopter with an anti-tank missile. I'm not sure theres any piece if military equipment they know how to use.

@FirstnameLastname-vd5cw

2 жыл бұрын

@@neshirst-ashuach1881 Bonus points.

@dunruden9720

2 жыл бұрын

And ships.

@crypt1c_865

Жыл бұрын

It's the connection of Ivan the Terrible, the first Tsar of Russia and the byzantine princess who was his grandma if I remember correctly (ik this comment was a joke). The Romans were able to use boats against the Punics, by using their land tactics on boats utilizing the corvus, they were masters at adaptation

There definitely needs to be a comedy film or mini series about this voyage alone. Everything that could’ve gone wrong, the amount of things that did go wrong, went wrong. 7 whole months of hard knocks and whacky shenanigans.

This would make a great comedy movie.

Meanwhile in 2022, Russian officers told their soldiers to dig trenches in Red Forest of Chernobyl

@donjohn5542

2 жыл бұрын

Russian idiocy has no limit.

@lupohutchington269

2 жыл бұрын

And by "mistake " shot their own ensing flag ship, shot their own troops by mistake, told the enemy their exact positions using no encryption, sent the supplies to late and weapons instead of food

@lupohutchington269

2 жыл бұрын

Russians following tradition

@stonem0013

Жыл бұрын

@@lupohutchington269 yes, acting this way is only possible if you have a russian soul

@pandamilkshake

Жыл бұрын

@@lupohutchington269 The Russian army...as effective as ever. Russia and their military is what happens when you put all your points on defense and none on offense.

"The Dumbest Russian Voyage Nobody Talks About" Drachinifel: *Am I some kind of joke to you?!*

@bartfoster1311

2 жыл бұрын

That is a great one! It was still a robovoice the first time I saw it.

@hallamhal

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking exactly this!

@robertortiz-wilson1588

2 жыл бұрын

That channel is fantastic!

@angelakjhorvath

2 жыл бұрын

Yes.

20th century Russian Gunnery must've had the aim of stormtroopers

Dude, I'm a Ukrainian and I've opened this video again just to say:yeah, there is a bit of another emberassement happened down at Crimea recently, Moskva, a russian warship went and fucked itself, it was awesome

@phantomwraith1984

9 ай бұрын

If you've read the maintenance report on that ship, it reads more like a horror story. Moskva was in no condition to even be sea worthy let alone in an active combat zone

@handsomejamesgrandinternet2106

9 ай бұрын

@@phantomwraith1984 yeah , it’s a bit of a running theme . Also, the main power of this ship was russian propaganda since they officially started the invasion on Zmiyiniy island. That is the titular ship that went to fuck itself :)

@spinyslasher6586

6 ай бұрын

What are your opinions on Israel-Palestine war?

@MrCobalt

5 ай бұрын

​@@spinyslasher6586Nice attempt to derail things, Ivan. Just relax and enjoy this funny video about how pathetic your military has always been, comrade.

@spinyslasher6586

5 ай бұрын

@@MrCobalt I don't know a lick of Russian brother. Nice try though.

Whenever I hear this story, I always wish someone made a movie about it.

@thesoliloquist1940

2 жыл бұрын

This would be an awesome comedy

@derekr1282

2 жыл бұрын

Monty Python, maybe? I definitely could have seen John Cleese portraying Rozhestvensky in the style of Basil Fawlty.

@oddballsok

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah..you d expect a Blackadder series of it played by russian actors..

@michaelkensbock661

2 жыл бұрын

Matt Evans - way too unrealistic even for Hollywood(!)

@thelastmelon9446

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe a prequel to the Death of Stalin

As a russian, who is only ever-so-slightly into history - we do talk about it. Because as much as we are brainwashed into being loud and proud of everything our ancestors did, there is nothing quite like shitting on insanely stupid major operations. You know, Russo-Finnish war, Afganistan, SELLING THE GODDAMN ALASKA FOR A HANDFUL OF SPARE CHANGE... Our history is full of impressive examples of stupidity of our proud people. Really like your delivery, great stuff, tovarisch

@ryanharris6850

2 жыл бұрын

what did the angry parrot say?

@glorygloryholeallelujah

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for Alaska 🙏 I lived there for a few years and it is beautiful! My friend and I got snow-trapped on *Yesterday Island* for almost an extra week while visiting her family there… It was so hard seeing Russia across the strait all day, every day and being tempted to walk over and say “hi!” 😜💖 It’s sucks that our countries can’t get their shit together and play nice with each other…because we share a shocking amount of similarities.🤣

@neanna209

2 жыл бұрын

@@ryanharris6850 It said Враги подходят с Востока! which means Enemies are coming from the East!

@sophiefilo16

2 жыл бұрын

Knowing you guys are salty about Alaska makes me smile...

@KilledByBird

2 жыл бұрын

@@sophiefilo16 yeah, we ain't smiling about it for sure. Hard to smile thinking about the fact, that if we kept it - there would be untouched native tribes not slaughtered by the righteous forces of American "Liberation with blood" attitude. Salt is real, my friend, and tears only make it more salty

I just can't imagine anything like that happening today. It's amazing!

And they never improved since, the end:)

@MitsukiHashiba

4 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

It's February 2022 and I gotta say, this explains a lot right now.

@angelarch5352

2 жыл бұрын

It's April 2022... even more prescient now..

British fishing boats: *exist* Russian navy: "Those are Japanese submarines! FIRE!" Russian navy ships: *also exist* Russian navy: "Those are Japanese, Fire!" *Japanese submarines roll up* Russians: "Ah don't worry, Those are our own ships" *Genius*

@CzechMirco

2 жыл бұрын

Not submarines, but torpedo boats. Very fast small SURFACE vessels armed solely with torpedoes (plus perhaps an odd machine gun). They were the reason why destroyers were created (the full name of that class of ships was originally "torpedo boat destroyer") because torpedo boats were too quick and agile for larger ships to either evade them or sink them with their big and slow-firing guns.

@Isolder74

2 жыл бұрын

The Japanese ship they miss-identified was a scout cruiser so there really was no excuse.

@ulfnarverud1661

2 жыл бұрын

They probably thought it was a false flag operation. 😜

@joshuaa.kennedy8837

2 жыл бұрын

None of them was a submarine!!!😂🤣

@tanith117

2 жыл бұрын

There actually was a submarine scare at one point when they were docked around Spain. They discovered that there was a miniature submarine in a shipping container on the docks and panicked thinking it was a Japanese ploy, nope the Russian government bought a submarine and forgot to tell the navy.

Good to see that the Russian navy has maintained the same standard of competence all this time.

Ah man, i feel bad for admiral Roz. He was quite capable despite his anger management problems. He saw that those were trawlers in dogger bank and tried to have his ship pointing the search lights up to signal "do not engage". His officers were corrupt to the bone due to aristocratic descent, even shadowing their vessels on battleships relative to the flagship so they could go ashore to get drunk. He had very limited amno even to take gunnery exercises. He had to order confiscation of opium cigarretes his officers grabbed along the way. He fell sick during the voyage, allowing his officers to do moar shenanigans. He was injured during the battle and captured. He faced court martial after that. Parrots live a lot, right? I like to think there is a parrot somewhere cursing around in Russian today.

@bkjeong4302

14 күн бұрын

The parrot died in Russia and its skeleton is currently in a museum IIRC.

You forgot the part during the Dogger Bay where the crew of the Borodino thought they were being boarded by the Japanese so they started to abandon ship.

@nagasako7

2 жыл бұрын

Ahhh the Ninjas of Norwich England. Don't mess with them

@Bragosso

2 жыл бұрын

He also forgot the part when the captain became an opium addict by accident xd

@Pikkabuu

2 жыл бұрын

I wonder what kind of vodka rations the Russian sailors were on for thinking that there were Japanese behind every rock...

@dimesonhiseyes9134

2 жыл бұрын

@@Pikkabuu all of them. They were on all of the vodka rations.

@jonsmitt9769

2 жыл бұрын

No Igor, that’s not a samurai in a kimo waving a sword, that’s a grumpy fisherman’s wife with a spoon.

You forgot to add an important note, this war was so overwhelming for Russians, showed so many flaws in the system that it catalyzed the first Russian revolution in 1905.

@Vlad_the_Impaler

2 жыл бұрын

It actually forced them to escalate conflict with Germany in to IWW in order to compensate for lost Russo-Japanese war first and that one caused revolutions.

@CorsetGrace

2 жыл бұрын

Let's hope Ukraine is another catalyst for revolution and democracy returns to Russia.

@Vlad_the_Impaler

2 жыл бұрын

​@@CorsetGrace It was catalyst for WWI, which was catalyst for First Russian Revolution of 1917, which was catalyst for Bolshevik Russian Revolution of 1917. I highly recommend to wiki Russian Revolution. As for perspective of democracy in Russia, no so fast. Regular Russians for now very much in support of what Putin did for last 20 years and support what he does now. More than 50% for sure. How much they support it is other question. They call it "collective Putin". It is set of ideas which lives in both minds of elites and regular people. Unless Putin losses are spectacular, which Ukraine can't deliver by itself, nothing will happen. West is afraid of Putin and doesn't actually want for fall of Russian Federation because it will be very bloody process, with loss of natural gas and oil supply capacities from Russia.

@CorsetGrace

2 жыл бұрын

@@Vlad_the_Impaler Economically, Russia isn't very important except for two words, Oil and Gas. It's actually sad to think that the Russian people like totalitarianism and thought police. George Orwell is either spinning in his grave or feels vindicated.

@Vlad_the_Impaler

2 жыл бұрын

@@CorsetGrace Russian/Moscowit statehood, as we know it now, was formed in XV century under influence by Golden Hoard and later reinstated in XVII century and can only function under rigid rule of one person. They call it Axis of Power. Whole history of Russia is loosening of it or tightening. People in it almost always existed to serve state or its ruler, which in many cases meant same thing. No mater what they try to build, they end up with an Empire ruled by an Emperor, under different names but with same roles and if you look carefully at the history of Russia, it is more or less history of conquest and colonization of it's neighbors, as result it needs "strong arm" to keep it together.

This aged REALLY well !!!! Their flagship only had some old amunition, it happens a lot. But they do know how to protect a bridge

@KasumiRINA

11 ай бұрын

Flagship, most protected bridge, strategic pipeline, the Kremlin... I had only three of these in my bingo card for "DO WANT" targets.

I see the Russian Navy has kept there traditions alive into the modern era

@KolyaUrtz

10 күн бұрын

how so?

Weirdly, we the British did this before the Russians, against the Russians. During the Crimean War, we had the oh so bright idea of attacking the far Eastern coast of the Russians. So, Rear-Admiral David Price, an excellent seaman, but also old and soft-hearted, had the task of getting a British fleet from assorted British ports to Petropavlovsk in Kamchatka. Well, the fleet had less problems than the later Russian fleet, but, thanks to Price's soft-heartedness, drunkenness was rife on board the ships, and yes, they also took pets from Africa - mainly parrotts - but Price had far less international incidents thanks to some superlative seamanship, and lost far less men to boot. Now the fleet's job was manifold but to land men on the Kamchatka Peninsular, provide support for said landing, and drive off any Russian ships that might interfere with the landing was the most important parts of it. And, in the moment of his greatest triumph, having got his fleet in reasonable order to execute this landing, an achievement of with he should have been justifiably proud, Rear-Admiral David Price, er.......shot himself. Why? Well I mentioned that Price had got rather soft-hearted with age. Well, the poor guy had driven himself into a state by thinking of the soldiers and seaman in his care, and the closer he got to Kamchatka, the more he fretted about sending these men to their possible deaths. And finally, it was too much. Unlike the sailing of the Russian fleet, this had a moderately good outcome, the British took Petropavlovsk, although casualties were high, and managed to hold it, much to the annoyance of the Russians. But think of Rear-Admiral David Price and ask - was it all really worth it? Edit: A slight edit. Eventually, the Russians did manage to drive the British off Petropavlovsk, but the Russian's did admit that the action had cause a lot of worry and diversion of resources from the main theatre of war in the Crimea.

@saastasilakka8667

2 жыл бұрын

Well shit now I feel bad for a british Rear-Admiral that I didn't even know existed.

@iuriikoboziev7263

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this story. I never heard about the Far East theater of the Crimean war.

@thomaseriksen6885

2 жыл бұрын

Shot himself the way Gary Webb did, or for real?

@robertwilloughby8050

2 жыл бұрын

For real. Really sad, BTH.

@askpwnsall6747

2 жыл бұрын

Was the Price too high? I'll be here all week

The Russian Baltic Sea Fleet: It was bad, but at least we lost against a navy of an emerging power. Nobody can do it worse! The Russian Black Sea Fleet: Hold my vodka!

@russkatherealoriginal6904

Жыл бұрын

Either if Russia lost it to missiles, through an internal fire, or something stupid they came up, one thing is clear, the Russians were hell incompetent.

@Dubanx

Жыл бұрын

9 months and a war between Ukraine and Russia later...

@jaredgarbo3679

Жыл бұрын

Who was it?

@luisf2793

Жыл бұрын

They somehow lost to a non existent navy

@tobyalder42

Жыл бұрын

What a silly thing to joke about. No need to have a ship on your own to sink an enemy ship

i do not know how many times i have watched this (and the reaction of a historian to this video) but i have to say, it is always hilarious and cheers me up.

You know BlueJay's dedication to the measurements when he calculates the precise number of gumballs

@MrSplicer3

9 ай бұрын

I mean its just simple math. 1 mile=X gumballs so Y miles=X times Y gumballs