After the drone raid Ukraine carried out yesterday annihilating some 40 strategic bombers, Russians started pushing parallels with Pearl Harbor. It is a totally misleading and wrong comparison because Pearl Harbour: 1) was an unprovoked act of aggression; 2) had no strategic importance; 3) Ukraine did not launch a treacherous attack against a country it’s not at war with.
Russias attack on Chornobyl was more like pearl harbory
Krabsandwich on
I believe the 1905 Revolution that almost cost the Tzar his throne was in part caused by the Japanese handing the Russians their ass in the war. Vova better be careful history is often a flat circle and the economic hardship and political repression are already there.
missionarymechanic on
Honestly, this deserves its own place in history. A landmark coup of asymmetrical warfare using subterfuge and even unwitting enemy assets to deliver the attack; which achieved strategic effects. And as far as I’m aware, there were no non-combatant losses, and no friendly losses, meaninging this was absolutely surgical.
ChicagoZbojnik on
I would compare it more to the Medway Raid by the Dutch against the English in the 2nd Anglo-Dutch War. The Dutch were losing the war and negotiations were underway, when the Dutch sailed a fleet up the Thames and sank the English fleet in Port and captured the English Flagship.
CardboardJedi on
TOTALLY pearl harbor. How were those poor Russians supposed to know they could be attacked just because they started a brutal war with their next door neighbor
7 commenti
After the drone raid Ukraine carried out yesterday annihilating some 40 strategic bombers, Russians started pushing parallels with Pearl Harbor. It is a totally misleading and wrong comparison because Pearl Harbour: 1) was an unprovoked act of aggression; 2) had no strategic importance; 3) Ukraine did not launch a treacherous attack against a country it’s not at war with.
It is just another Russian «[Tsushima](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tsushima)» — a moment when Russia got smashed by an enemy they arrogantly saw as subhuman.
Russias attack on Chornobyl was more like pearl harbory
I believe the 1905 Revolution that almost cost the Tzar his throne was in part caused by the Japanese handing the Russians their ass in the war. Vova better be careful history is often a flat circle and the economic hardship and political repression are already there.
Honestly, this deserves its own place in history. A landmark coup of asymmetrical warfare using subterfuge and even unwitting enemy assets to deliver the attack; which achieved strategic effects. And as far as I’m aware, there were no non-combatant losses, and no friendly losses, meaninging this was absolutely surgical.
I would compare it more to the Medway Raid by the Dutch against the English in the 2nd Anglo-Dutch War. The Dutch were losing the war and negotiations were underway, when the Dutch sailed a fleet up the Thames and sank the English fleet in Port and captured the English Flagship.
TOTALLY pearl harbor. How were those poor Russians supposed to know they could be attacked just because they started a brutal war with their next door neighbor
Reminder Japan 🇯🇵 sunk Russian ships in 1905