Japan already opened a can on Russia in 1905.
What Russia's military did across the Manchurian area was simply amazing.
This is the problem I have with people on here thumping their chests for war. Both those countries, the Ukraine and Russia are barbaric in nature. They have little regard for life.
Russia will use whatever methods they see fit to gain an objective and now there is a man at the helm who is obviously gone off the cliff.
Only since the early 1990s had these two countries started to join the modern society. That is all gone now.
The Battle of Tsushima Strait was one of the most lopsided losses in naval history.
All because 1) Russia was too confident, 2) They had no idea about the Japanese technology (Japanese were actively trained in using Morse code while the Russians had crappy German sets that no one knew how to use) and 3) the win wasn’t about the Japanese beating the Russians, but the Japanese Navy outshowing the Japanese Army that were still engaged in Port Arthur