“””””It’s hilarious to me that the Russian ‘flotilla’ consists of one destroyer, an oiler, a tug, and a sub.”””””
Something is better than nothing.
It does give the state controlled Russian media something to work with and can also be positively written about in the state controlled medias of Russia’s friends and allies such as North Korea and Iran.
One of the main reasons Russia has a boil water Navy is the same reason the Germans did it World War II. Just national pride. You’re nobody if you don’t have a navy.
The population of the island of Java is larger than the population of Russia.