The Russian Navy is on the verge of collapse

The Week ^ | 04/01/15 | David Axe

[okie01]

‘The Japanese Kicked the Russian fleets ass in World War Two. Bite Me Putin!’

The Japanese kicked the Russian fleet's ass in the Russo-Japanese War...but they haven't confronted each other since.

[Paid_Russian_Troll]

As a prince before being crowned Russian czar Nicholas II has toured Far East with his friends.
On April 1991 in a town of Otsu, Japan Nicholas was beaten by local cop named Tsuda Sanzo, allegedly infuriated by disrespectful behavior of foreigners. Ironically, Nicholas’s shirt which was an evidence in a case againt Tsuda, was kept long enough to be used as a DNA source and was useful to identify his remains (Nicholas and his family were shot by Communists in 1917, their remains were put in a truck and dumped in an abandoned mine), fond exactly a century later.
In is rumored Nicholas hated the Japanese since the incident and it has largely contributed to an idiotic decision to send Baltic Fleet to Korea across half the World to fight the Japanese on very uncomfortable terms.
Quite a predictable outcome has also added to a Japanese pride a lot and it might be one of reasons why they went with further expansion in Pacific.

[okie01]

Ironically, Nicholas’s shirt which was an evidence in a case againt Tsuda, was kept long enough to be used as a DNA source and was useful to identify his remains

Now, that is an interesting story. I was also unaware of Nicholas' tour of the Far East.

Thank you.

[Desron13]

Agreed, the Russians are tenacious fighters on land. Smart fighters, not so much. Stalin himself said that quantity has a quality all it’s own. If that’s what you think of your soldiers lives you understand why so many people died under this dictators leadership.

[Paid_Russian_Troll]

Otto Scorzeny - a notorious Nazi military leader and a founding father of modern special operations disagree. He said individual Russian soldier is superior to the German and so does the leadership up to a regimental level. Overall, he believed Soviet military in general were inferior because higher command were toadies fearing civilian politicians and pursued inferior strategy developed by said civilian politicians and the Soviet generals were butchers more cruel toward their own troops than to the enemy.