The Dumbest Russian Voyage Nobody Talks About | BlueJay | History Teacher Reacts

[@MrTerry]

What do you think of BlueJay? Do you think we have a powerhouse of the history community on our hands?

[@Nietzscheisdead-God1900]

It’s one of my favorite historical KZbinrs. His content has more of a dark and well timed humor style. But the topics he has covered are fascinating.

[@HavikXIII]

BlueJay has some of the best comedy combined with history I've seen since Sam disappeared. He fills a much needed void, im excited to see you react to more of his content

[@Leo_SC]

Definitely, BlueJay is like a homage to San O’Nella, but he manages to have his own style on top of it, it’s some pretty cool stuff.

[@philosotree5876]

How does everyone just not notice the fact that BlueJay is clearly plagiarizing several of Sam o'nella's jokes.

[@Leo_SC]

@@philosotree5876 it’s more of a homage for me, it’s not like he’s completely copying Sam

[@danialahmadariffinlee1510]

To paraphrase the words of Drachinifel, "Of course, this being the Russian navy, the phrase 'And then, things got worse' is in full effect".

[@kranodor]

The Drachinifel videos are SO GOOD. Much longer, but still so interesting.

[@ronmaximilian6953]

Ah. Yes. "Voyage of the Damned."

[@CvBrony]

You can attach that phrase to just about anything involving Russia.

[@mikitz]

@@CvBrony In Finnish, we have the term 'ryssiä', which means 'to fuck things up completely'. It literally means 'to Russian things up'. Russians should be aware that they're literally the epitome for failure somewhere abroad.

[@Nepomniachtchi_Austin]

Absolutely LOVE that dudes channel.

[@snszbyd]

The russian line that the parrot said literally means: "The enemies are coming from the east!", and for some reason I die laughing every time I hear it.

[@juliakovacs4885]

I'm pretty sure I recognize it as a voiceline from CoD

[@dominicclark5284]

XD I die laughing at this too

[@dominicclark5284]

Thank you so much I’ve been looking everywhere for what this means lol

[@panzerwolf494]

You aren't the only one

[@emeralddragon2980]

Weird, because when I translated it five times through Google translate, four times it came up as "Enemies coming up from the drains". But then again, I guess Google translate is far from perfect.

[@MrDdaland]

"The Kamchatka, the most effective Japanese ship to never serve in the Japanese Navy"

[@maximaldinotrap]

I posted this on VTH's reaction too but: As Drachinifel said in his second video said: The numerous threats faced by the Russian Second Pacific Squadron were: Imaginary Japanese torpedo boats, real English fishing boats, The Kamchatka, almost starting a war with a global super power, accidentally shooting up their own ships, The Kamchatka, disease, mountainous seas, The Kamchatka, poisonous snakes, prophets of the end times, The Kamchatka, highborn officers running rat hunts through the fleet, being saddled with a bunch of obsolete floating targets that only served to slow them down, and, of course, The Kamchatka

[@iliastephnadze]

"The Kamchatka"

[@jordanpeterson5140]

OK, but counterpoint: do you see torpedo boats?

[@killman369547]

Ah yes, the Russian 2nd pacific squadron. The words "Dumpster fire" are about as close as one can get to describing this absolute disaster of a voyage that literally drove some of the men involved insane. It was such a disaster the battle of tsushima was basically a mercy-killing.

[@Isolder74]

Blue Jay just hits the highlights. Watch Drachinifel’s Voyage of the Damned for the whole story and even Drach leaves stuff out!

[@josephvarno5623]

@@Isolder74 But Drach's follow up on the Kamcatka fills in more of it. I disagree with dumpster fire as it was more of a cluster f**k with napalm finisher.

[@Isolder74]

@@josephvarno5623 With a Tzar Bomba finisher.

[@killman369547]

@@Isolder74 I have watched both videos he did on it, i couldn't help but burst out laughing a few times, especially for the insults rozhesvetsky came up with for ships that didn't follow orders or otherwise annoyed him. ESPECIALLY the Kamchatka

[@Isolder74]

@@killman369547 You should see the 5 minute guide on the Kamchatka.

[@MrAagaard]

another story about this "voyage of the damned" was that the admiral would keep certain ships as close as possible to his flagship. this was so that he could keep an eye on them, but also so he could hurl abuse at the captains. he also gave several ships less than savory nicknames.

[@maximaldinotrap]

Such as Lecherous Slut Also Known as Kamchatka I am gonna assume that Kamchatka was in that position the most

[@DanGamingFan2406]

"As accurate as Helen Keller playing laser tag." Yikes, that stings!

[@maximaldinotrap]

Hey that's not fair Helen Keller would have better accuracy

[@luisf2793]

@@maximaldinotrapit’s historically accurate that Helen Keller has less friendly fire kills than the Russian navy

[@jharri7908]

Pmsl

[@4partharmony208]

Basically a real-life Monty Python sketch

[@NJDRJ]

Mr. Terry, Drachinifel has a 40ish minute video on this voyage (The Russian 2nd Pacific Squadron - Voyage of the Damned). Would you consider making a multi-part reaction on it? This video was great but left out quite a bit.

[@jeroen6139]

Would be a awsome watch to see.

[@jaytucker7873]

What is absolutely insane is that the full story is crazier than Blue Jays version!

[@Demonslayer20111]

Yes!! Absolutely.

[@ronmaximilian6953]

Those are actually two videos

[@zombieoverlord5173]

@@ronmaximilian6953 One is about the voyage itself and the other is on the Battle of Tsushima

[@Mr.Heller]

But hey, they taught a snake to drink vodka, it wasn't a total loss.

[@RamdomView]

13:42 The ship that was hit was the Aurora. Twelve years later, a shot from the ship was among the first events of the October Revolution.

[@chedelirio6984]

Ah... so she waited patiently for payback...

[@peterwindhorst5775]

@@chedelirio6984 and payback she did - she also fought in World War Two defending Leningrad from the Nazis.

[@gloverfox9135]

@@peterwindhorst5775payback for what? The Russians shot themselves, shouldn’t they be shooting them selves back?

[@sumvs5992]

I think the parrot's "cursing" is just random russian from the earlier CoDs, so it's probably just saying something like "they're over there" or "cover me I'm reloading".

[@leserb9228]

"THE ENEMIES ARE COMING FRON THE EAST" Is what the parrot said, which is.... Accurate in that situation.

[@TheGallantDrake]

Funnily enough, historians suspect that if Russia had continued to ship troops in over land, they would have eventually won through sheer numbers. The Japanese army itself had taken serious losses, but with the calamity at Tsushima the Russians were facing a PR disaster and had to cut the war short in order to deal with internal unrest, again.

[@Isolder74]

Just remember that the ship that all of the other Russians kept shooting at on their own side was the Aurora. It was the ship hit and the crewman and the chaplain was on at Dogger Bank and the ship hit by the Kamchatka in the funeral salute.

[@trinalgalaxy5943]

And if I remember right, she was the ship towing the static target...

[@Isolder74]

@@trinalgalaxy5943 The records do not confirm it but it would not surprise anyone if it was.

[@doctoremil2678]

And the Aurora was one of the very few Russian ships that survived the battle.

[@HDreamer]

@@doctoremil2678 They apparently learned how to avoid getting hid during the voyage.

[@peterwindhorst5775]

@@doctoremil2678 then it was used to trigger the Russian Revolution and defend Leningrad (formerly Petrograd, formerly St Petersburg, formerly peter the great's log cabin, formerly a Swedish swamp) during the 100-day Siege of Leningrad.

[@onkelkonkel5]

12:53 - sharks following a ship is an old maritime superstition that means someone will likely die. Quite fitting really.

[@TBoneTony]

This is just about as funny as the tragic Burke and Wills expedition. The leaders of this Russian Voyage were so inept they would loose a war against the Dumb and Dumber characters.

[@the1andonlydrmixxel]

*lose

[@Ivnnih2774]

The admiral is actually the only competent person in this fleet and since the beginning he thinks the tsar idea is stupid but he can't go against his order He's an unfortunate man trapped between idiot tsar and completely incompetent crew

[@saintcynicism2654]

@@Ivnnih2774 He even tried resigning to get out of it at one point, and his resignation was refused.

[@dndgeek4112]

I had no idea this is what they meant by “Russian voyage”. I actually learned of this event from another teacher creator named history with Mike.

[@Tzilandi]

Mad props to Vice-Admiral Rozhestvensky; when his subordinates faced court martial for surrendering to the Japanese, he took all the blame (despite having taken a piece of shrapnel to the skull and being unconscious for most of Tsushima), getting the captains and crews off the hook, with the death penalty they all faced reduced to short prison sentences.

[@bkjeong4302]

The fact he even dragged this trainwreck to Tsushima says a lot about his skills as a sailor.

[@christiansee2500]

Ah... "The Kamchatka"- The wise words of Drach

[@Cyberc50x]

9:05 "Oh god, the Japanese have Torpedo Fish!"

[@BRoyce69]

Even if you reacted to different content and had the same job I think some people would pick up on your academic connection because your one of the few react tubers with not only good and informative insight but proper citation and academic integrity. Sometimes with these type of videos, I can't even find links to the original. Your doing a great job Terry! Keep up the great work

[@roshasensi2220]

i was not prepared to hear the phrase "its like if Oversimplified and Sam O Nella had a baby. its this channel"

[@B0risTheBlade]

The parrot said "the enemies are coming from the east"

[@MrAlex_Raven]

Probably plenty of people have pointed this out, but I will cite again, Drachinifel makes great note of how Admiral Rozhestvensky was actually a remarkably good admiral, just was in this case subjected to perhaps the worst combination of underfunding and overt royal corruption of any admiral in history. Even Japan honored his ability to perform despite the decisive victory.

[@Mauther]

When we studied this in my Surface Warfare course, the instructor pointed out that the Russians, for all of their epic mistakes, had managed to catch the Japanese fleet out of place for defending the home islands. If Rozhestvensky had opted to go around the east coast of Japan and use the straights around Hokkaido (he would have had to refuel one last time) he could have smashed and raided the coast and the small naval force left by the Imperial Combined Fleet before reuniting with the Pacific Fleet. Also one mistake with the video, the Russians weren't barred from using the Suez. The Russians were concerned their new battleships were too big for the Suez so they along with escorting cruisers took the long way around. The older battleships and smaller ships passed thru the Suez under the command of von Felkerzam.

[@stevenclark1662]

I commented on one of your videos, like 4 or 5 years ago. I wasn't as nice as I could have been, but I remember saying that I was expecting more added historical context from a history teacher. I've occasionally stopped in since then, and you have REALLY come in to your own here. You remind me of my humanities teacher in high school, and that's a major compliment! Keep it up, I'm really enjoying what you do!

[@RamdomView]

6:32 Repeating what I said from other videos: This fear was well warranted. Torpedo boats were scary back then - small, fast moving enemies that can one-shot a battleship in the days when eyeballs and telescopes were still the main means of fire control. Britain was allied to Japan at the time and had built much of Japan's navy. Japan started the war with a surprise attack. As far as the fleet knew, Japan had prepared torpedo boats or the British reflagged some of their ships in advance. The fleet recieved a report from a transport ship that "four torpedo-boats which only showed lights on the mizenmast-head so that at a distance, they might be taken for fishing boats". Of course, the transport's report was just plain wrong.

[@ronmaximilian6953]

I rather like Russian conspiracy theories which held that the captain of the Kamchatka was a Japanese agent.

[@saintcynicism2654]

Funnily enough though, it'd been several years by that point since Japan had ordered a torpedo boat from the British (though I don't know about their other ships), and the last batch of torpedo boats they purchased from Europe were actually French-built. The British did build several, but by the time the war rolled around they were considered second or third class, not even important enough to have names (something reserved for the first class only, which by that point were domestically produced rather than foreign-made).

[@JK50with10]

What most people don’t realise is that the Japanese battleships and a number of their cruisers at the time were built by Britain. Two of the battleships were built by Thames Iron Works, one was built by John Brown on the Clyde in Scotland and the flagship was built by Vickers in Barrow. So the Baltic fleet was actually fighting a modern navy.

[@Shaun_Jones]

The Russian fleet was just as modern, four of their battleships were only about three years old at that point. But the difference in crew competency made all the difference. You could have given the Russians HMS Dreadnaught and it wouldn’t have changed a thing.

[@A_Name_]

2:00 "idk if they are going to get into the russo-japanese war" me: well this is going to be more fun than I thought 😂

[@comradekommandmentklaus1848]

I’ve watched almost all his content. He is by far one of the best.

[@WanderingWriter]

This was very fun and educational. It's cool they use an *animal* to tell the history.

[@artemperesada3454]

I just really miss Sam and hope he's doing okay

[@saiken811]

He uploaded a new vid a couple of weeks ago.

[@ronmaximilian6953]

Drachinifel, an amateur naval historian who has an eponymous channel on KZbin created two videos about this. The first is "Voyage of the Damned," coveringly trip over. He has a second on the Battle of Tsushima itself. It's rather amusing and depressing hour and 20 minutes of material. It's best enjoyed with hard cider. But we are civilized in the US and drink it cold. One of the reasons for the Russo-Japanese War was the fascist rants about Asians taking over the world by the German Kaiser, Wilhelm II. At that time, Kaiser Wilhelm II was trying to restore an alliance with Russia and kept goating his cousin, Tsar Nicholas II into acting against British India or Japan. It didn't work out so well for Russia, and probably did lead to World War I. Kaiser Wilhelm II was in a league of his own in bad diplomacy. To put things into perspective, he thought that he could force the British into an alliance by threatening their preeminence as the largest naval power.

[@Isolder74]

It’s a trilogy as you need to watch the 5 minute guide on the Kamchatka as well. In the order of release it’s voyage, Tsushima and Kamchatka but I would suggest watching the one on the Kamchatka second.

[@ronmaximilian6953]

@@Isolder74 I wonder if some brilliant person has branded binoculars with a logo of the Kamchatka.

[@maximaldinotrap]

@@ronmaximilian6953 The binoculars would be shit though.

[@xjp1998]

Omg that video was great, but they left a lot out. In the battle with Japan in the Strait, the Russians did more damage to their own ships than the Japanese did and the same with the Japanese they both stunk, just Russia did more damage to each other.

[@goli8699]

Honestly at that point that was to be expected

[@bkjeong4302]

The Japanese did do more damage to their own ships, but that pales in comparison to how much damage they inflicted on the Russians during that battle.

[@LeveyHere]

Nice! I completely forgot about his channel. I found BlueJay either when he started blowing up or just before I believe. I guess at some point I either accidentally unsubscribed or the KZbin glitch for that happened, because I'm not longer subbed. Now that I remember definitely gonna watch the videos and get caught up lol

[@kingaggaming1971]

Well, it's nice to see their logistics haven't gotten any worse over time

[@RamdomView]

No, they do seem to have gotten worse. The fleet would have made it to its destination if it were not intercepted. Russia was able to somewhat supply its army on the other side of a continent. This despite the fact that parts of the route didn't have rail access. By contrast, today's Russia's offensives stall out within a single truck's range of their depots despite said depots being in core territory and the destinations being former parts of their empire.

[@RamdomView]

Update: It's even _worse_ now. Imperial Russia was able to supply and train millions of soldiers well enough to not immediately crumble against Germany. Modern Russia's mobilized army is already showing serious cracks with significant surrenders, routs and even officer fragging.

[@cocacola4blood365]

If L. Ron Hubbard had had an admiralty, this is what it would look like. For that don't know it, he commanded a patrol boat in WWII and shelled a Mexican island thinking it to be a deserted American one, five hours into his first voyage as captain of a sub chaser (fresh out of sub chaser training) he spent 68 hours in combat against a "known magnetic deposit" he thought to be two Japanese submarines. Other accounts say it was a log.

[@SemIdeiaDeNome4]

hey so now that you're reacting to BlueJay content can you react to his video called "How to survive Victorian London" ? it talks about how life was in victorian london for the rich class and the working class

[@maximaldinotrap]

90% of the problems faced by this fleet was thanks to one ship The Kamchatka.

[@mixedup6354]

I recommend reacting to bazbattles videos especially the battle of north cape. There's alot to learn from it

[@dontcare803]

If to recommend, drachinifel has a good long video about the voyage of the second pacific squadron, he keeps it too comedical, he goes even into more detail. the thing is, the admiral got more flak in blue jay video then he deserved, he was i think considered one of the competent admirals at the time. he was one of the only ones not corrupt, but having major anger issues and taking it out on his crew if they screwed up.

[@RRW359]

Which is kind of understandable when THIS is what he had to deal with.

[@Isolder74]

Rozzy clearly played the part of only sane man.

[@dontcare803]

@@RRW359 drachinifel even mentioned when the guy became too frustated, he threw his binoculars overboard, but his staff was aware of that habit, so they had an entire box full of them i believe

[@Isolder74]

@@dontcare803 A box holding 50 pairs of binoculars. So many commenters wondered if he ran out by the end.

[@dontcare803]

@@Isolder74 wow, didn't know it were that many

[@MattnessLP]

Bluejay's intro about the Russian navy reminded me of those "The Russian Navy sucks" videos I keep getting in my recommendations

[@TheMalfunctioningAI]

Captain's parrot says "ВРАГИ ПОДХОДЯТ С ВОСТОКА!" Hope this helps ;) "Enemy coming from the east!" if you need translation. Its words from some game I don't remember name of....

[@oliversherman2414]

I bet there could be a pretty good dark comedy film about this subject kind of like The Death of Stalin

[@katjosephperez8772]

Snakes typically hate vodka. “Snake Discovery” here on KZbin is Emily and Ed, and it’s gone from her filming in her house to them owning a freakin zoo. Years ago they made a video about getting snakes to stop biting you, and one safe way to do it was to splash a bit of vodka at the snake (& your skin). Ed said that’s the best use for *cheap vodka* 🤢🤪

[@scottsthoughtschannel9538]

FACEPALM!!!! What a disaster!!! Also, a great history lesson!!! :)

[@AdurianJ]

What happened at the same time as the Russo-Japanese war was the Swedish-Norwegian union crisis in 1905. With the Russian Baltic fleet gone Sweden could concentrate far more on rebellious Norway like moving it's entire fleet to the West coast and war plans would be much simpler. Sweden was much stronger militarily than Norway and this helped alleviate the crisis because Sweden showed good faith in negotiations, had the odds been more equal the more hotheaded Norwegian faction which wanted a war for independence might have gained the upper hand. Germany was egging Sweden on to go to war as well. There was some real stumbling blocks in the negotiations between Sweden and Norway that could easily have been used as an excuse for war. The negotiations in Karlstad was about honor. The Norwegians had insulted the Swedish king (who was also king of Norway) and thus Norway needed to accept something equally humiliating for a peaceful resolution to be reached. The results was the dismantling of Norwegian border fortifications and a demilitarized zone between Sweden and Norway (which lasted until the 1990's). An interesting fact about the negotiations was that the first question everyone agreed on was that the Sami population would still be free to cross the border with their reindeer herds.

[@PhantomNull13]

I'm flashing back to the Sam O'Neila video on the William D. Porter.

[@mannamedisaak3316]

I still thank you for taking my suggestions 😊

[@Truthseeker4449]

Drachinifel is a naval historian and he has such a great video on this voyage and of course the subsequent battle. It's not animated, but the level detail is absolutely incredible (there is a lot that got left out here for the sake of time) and just as mind-blowing and it's still funny. Highly recommend listening to it and the rest of his channel even if it's to pass your own time.

[@richardpike8748]

awesome recommendation

[@prestonjones1653]

"Do you see torpedo boats?"

[@bkjeong4302]

Drachinifel is an engineer by trade (though he originally wanted to join the Royal Navy and comes from a navy family, which explains both his interest in and extensive knowledge on naval matters). Incidentally, his great-uncle died on Royal Oak in 1939 courtesy of Gunther Prien.

[@sirboomsalot4902]

@@bkjeong4302 Huh, I knew he was an engineer but I didn’t know the rest. Cool!

[@SomeGuy-sd4kp]

He also corrects some mistakes and omissions in the BlueJay video which were done for comedic effect. 1. Torpedo Boats in the Noth Sea were not totally crazy as Japan ordered many of their ships from Britain so its possible that they had some finished torpedo boats there which they just needed to send a crew to. 2. It was always planned to go around Africa as it was feared that the dreadnoughts were too large for the Suez channel. The Dogger Bank incident only resulted in the pay or reparations.

[@JKingSniper]

God that's sad mistaking thr Japanese ship for Russian just the final straw for me, can't believe it

[@psymar]

7:20 He's saying they only made it as far as Denmark before the crew started freaking out about Japanese torpedo boats that weren't there.

[@jasonnelson5745]

This voyage should be named Murphy's voyage

[@Nails077]

There needs to be a movie made about this journey.

[@luggilu7864]

Especially losing to Japan, a country which at that time has had about 100 years to turn from a 1600s feudal society to a modern western influenced state.

[@throwaway4553]

2:14 "Alright, so it's in the Baltic" Sure, for a while 😏

[@StudioCoqui]

Love your reaction to National Lampoon's Russian Voyage.

[@bkjeong4302]

Japan hadn’t annexed Korea by the Russo-Japanese War. In fact, they in part started the war so that Russia wouldn’t get in the way of their plans to annex Korea, which they succeeded in.

[@emberfist8347]

They had occupied though

[@jiyuhong5853]

Da : (Russian for Yes) Net : (Russian for No) Russians: So let me guess this right, you just decided to shoot up fishing Boats, BRITISH, GERMAN, SWEDISH, and FRENCH and fishing boats? Admiral: ... Da. Russians: But you halted fire and helped rescue the survivors? Admiral: Net! We ran away! Russians: Where were you running to? Admiral: Suez Russians: The same Suez controlled by the British. Admiral: Da. Russians: Via British controlled Gibraltar? Admiral: Da Russians: So you were running away from the British by running to the British? What part of this plan did you think about? And then you lost, 7/11 I repeat 7 out of 11 battleships, hit nothing and only sank 3 torpedo boats (which sank due to colliding with japanese own destroyers), : DA...

[@Maukustus]

ah yes, committing war crimes before reaching even 10% of your way to the destination

[@Packless1]

7:00 ...they didn't...but that's the point...! 😝 ...but the russian sailors were so incompetent, they couldn't tell the difference between a destroyer and a fishing boat...! 👎 ...ooops...no more spoilering...! 🤐

[@Isolder74]

Twice, the first time it was a pair of Russian fishing boats.

[@haraldschuster3067]

The statement about the Brits revoking access to the Suez-Canal seems wrong. All the slower ships from the convoy DID take the Suez route and another fleet of reinforcements (old, slow ships) also travelled via Suez. Only the faster, more modern battleships went the long way round and I've read that this was intentional, since the Russian admiral didn't want these big ships stuck in the narrow canal where Japanese torpedo boats might actually be - using the confined canal for an attack. For those wondering: The Japanese torpedo boats were bought in Britain and thus had to traverse Suez in order to get back home. So they might well be "in the vicinity" and Russian paranoia is legendary and real.

[@Uldihaa]

I swear this is like when you play a video game and deliberately pick the worst possible choices for the achievement.

[@LESTR97]

12:30 The parrot is just saying some random Russian voice line from one of the Call of Duty Modern Warfare games

[@TacComControl]

Hey, just curious about that game in the background.... What's the difference between NBA Jam, NBA Jelly, and NBA preserves?

[@lnomsim2]

I'm surprised no one seems to have commented on that, but no, they didn't get ambushed by Japanese torpedoes boats by Denmark. Butthe crew thought it might happen, which is quite stupid considering how far they are from Japan. And Russian ships shooting at fishing boats? It's nice to see they haven't changed their doctrine much in 1 century.

[@emberfist8347]

It isn’t that stupid. Most Japanese warships were built in the UK at the time as Japan itself was still nurturing its shipbuilding industry.

[@Paul-ft9dn]

actually the suez canal was built by France, the UK bought shares of it from Egypt and then in 1882, conquered Egypt and occupied it until 1952 and controlled the Suez Canal zone until 1956 after which Nasser's Egypt nationalized it.

[@emberfist8347]

Well they helped finance it during the construction phase. He wasn’t wrong part of the reason it ever got built was that it allowed easier access to the Europeans overseas colonies.

[@MahsaKaerra]

Regarding the bit where you say that Russia's loss in this war may have contributed to their attitude going in to WW1. Might it also be fair to say that Japan's victory here contributed to the idea that they could match up to other European powers and, in 1941, the United States?

[@ronmaximilian6953]

Are you suggesting that the Japanese who defeated the larger Manchu empire with a sneak attack, and then defeated the Russian Empire with a war starting with a sneak attack, would try that again? Sarcasm a side, the Japanese pretty much went to war with every allied European power in 1941. Being unable to completely defeat the Chinese, they went to war with the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, and managed to piss off the Vichy French. And they also invaded Thailand, which got Thailand to join their side. Pretty much she only people they didn't go to war with in 1941 were the Germans and Italians although they would rectify this in 1943 by going to war with Italy.

[@Isolder74]

@@ronmaximilian6953 In 1943 Italy ousted Mussolini and joined the Allies to only be occupied by the Germans. So technically Italy switched sides.

[@ronmaximilian6953]

@@Isolder74 yes, I know

[@bkjeong4302]

Not only did this cause them to think they could take on European powers or the US, it also informed much of their naval strategic doctrine, aka the so-called Kantai Kessen doctrine where they would fight defensively against an enemy naval force travelling from a long way away to whittle down the enemy fleet, destroy the remainder in a single decisive battle, and then hope the enemy gave up (though this was modified into a much more offensive strategy just before PH, which turned out to be a horrible idea for Japan as it resulted in them vastly overextending their limited logistical capabilities)

[@Jack-lo5me]

Has anyone else noticed that the fleet fired on every single small ship, and then themselves, and the moment they saw a battle ship that actually LOOKED like a ship that would be at war… And they assumed that it COULDNT be the Japanese! It HAD to be Russian! The Japanese were eastern savages, they didn’t have similarly powerful warships- And then they all died.

[@denoodler5002]

You should definitely react to "History's most mischievous french celebrity" next

[@PlaAwa]

it makes one think that the belt and road project ain't just for trade

[@astartesfanboy5294]

Hey if you want a really in depth analysis of this battle Drachinifel has a good detailed video on it as well.

[@timtsai9285]

Well of course he's the next Sam O'nella. He literally steals half his jokes from Sam.

[@skootmeister3994]

Another channel called History of Everything covered this topic as well as other mishaps of the Russian navy. Including things like the K-19 and an incident with Sweden.

[@blackoutlol2857]

I genuinely didn’t know about this channel until recently so yeah very cool.

[@LexusLFA554]

Update 1.8.90 New Weapons Very clever, made me chuckle.

[@Eli-dx2uj]

I'm a little rusty on interpreting morse code, but I think at 14:37 says "You are a you"...?

[@alexberntsen3168]

Please do a reaction of any Drachinifel video. The voyage of the Bismark and the Channel dash are both epic.

[@octapusxft]

Your students will have loved that one

[@sagethegreat4680]

Hey I would pick Helen for a laser tag match way before any of these sailors

[@kineuhansen8629]

do you see torpedoboats

[@nevrynkinori3627]

can expand the cursor easy in settings. Nice video!

[@DanDorugh]

I feel like the Russians thinking that small fisher boats are the Japanese's navy and the actual coal powered warship isn't, is weirdly consistent when we remember the general opinion that Europeans had of the Asians at that time.

[@angussoutter7824]

He’s taking the mick 😂😂😂

[@redstarlegion7009]

Drachinifel does a good job describing this voyage

[@Packless1]

7:50 ...invisible stealth japanese torpedoboats...! 😱😱😱 9:30 ...they couldn't use the Suez-Channel...? 😮😮😮 ...might it be that Britain and Japan were allies in these time...??? 🤔🤔🤔 15:25 ...among the wounded was a young japanese navy-officer, who lost 2 fingers...one more and he would have been declared unfit for military service and had to quit his career in the navy... ...his name was Isoroku Yamamoto...!

[@skadifrozenfury9266]

6:29 it’s still new today, they have made few necessary advancements in the true need for navy importance. 😬

[@1truejellybean]

I can’t stop shidding please send help, I’ve shidded nearly 300 times during this video and I can’t stop shidding and edging

[@milesohearn3609]

Is it me or is this whole journey to fight Japan feels like it should end porky pig say " th th th th th th That's all folks!"

[@swymaj02]

between this and Korea in the Imjin, which is worse? I mean, without Admiral Yi, they were toast.

[@timmypeschel1571]

i see they never heard of dont shoot the messager

[@Brunette_Rapunzel]

There's a new Blue Jay out! :)

[@arnepietruszewski9255]

This is the voyage to Tsushima.

[@Maeshalanadae]

Think about who has control of the Suez Canal these days, Mr. Terry, and the current setup…

[@timmypeschel1571]

and they call us stupid cowboys from armgeton

[@berkkarsi]

Hey Mr. Terry, after you pause and talk, make sure you rewind 5 seconds backwards, because I notice that you miss some things that the video says when you unpause it.

[@brandonburum8279]

I saw your thumbnail and became disappointed that you’re not Rich Evans of Red Letter Media.

[@ozzybloke-craig3690]

0:39 Mr terry sends Polish people to your Sub Feed!

[@CraziRocka]

“Denmark has Japanese submarines??” 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@mountab1253]

You should watch the victorian era video from bluejay