1. This showed the Asian leaders from Sun yat in China to Nehru in India, that western powers could be defeated. After a century of defeats, Asia began its renewal.
2. This led to the 1905 Russian revolution. If the tsar had accepted long term the results of the 1905 revolution there would have been no 1917 revolution and no Bolshevik takeover. Instead, he acquiesced with the 1905 demands and the a few years later reversed al, of it, abolishing parliament, leaving the people no recourse but revolution
Russian Empire 1904-1905: European power, Western power. In possession of Ukraine, Kyiv. 🤔🧐
And almost 104 years since the newly reborn Poland defeated Russia in 1921, and turned down taking all of Belarus and half of Ukraine at the Riga peace talk. Without Western allies covering for Russian backwardness, Russia can and did lose wars to smaller countries.
And this took place just 41 years after Admiral Perry “opened” Japan to modernization.
One problem among many was that Russia only had WW1 dreadnaught battle ships while Japan just built modern battleships. No match.
Another problem was that Russia had to send a single battleship all the way from the Baltic IIRC.
Russia got their revenge at Khalkin Gol in 1939. It totally changed the direction of WWII, and yet few know about the battle.
Many Jewish leaders in the West worked against the Tsar, some financing the Tsar's enemies, some condemning the Tsar in the Western press, some petitioning Western politicians to oppose the Tsar.