Yeah, the russkies had already experienced the jap navy at Port Arthur (the Tsar’s navy destroyed). Always important to realize the russians are really orientals, despite the great russians resemblance to Westerners.
“...the russians are really orientals...”
True now as then, and first observed by Winston Churchill in 1890:
“The Russian is a delightful person until he tucks in his shirt. As an Oriental he is charming, but it is only when he insists on being treated as the most Easterly of Westerns rather than Westerly of Easterns that the Russian becomes a racial anomaly most difficult to handle. One never knows which side of his nature is going to emerge next.”
Does anyone really regard Vladimir Putin as a Westerner? Oh yes, I forgot, our wonderful Obama regime does, and gets played like a cheap fiddle in Moscow.