The Russian 2nd Pacific Squadron - Voyage of the Damned by Drachinifel - Reaction

[@Warmduscher1876]

Don't you hate it when you open the fridge and a dozen Japanese torpedo boats appear out of the butter?

[@808INFantry11X]

I swear that happened to me last week I thought I was seeing things thanks for the vindication LOL

[@UrbanCohort]

@@Warmduscher1876 happens to the best of us...

[@SudsyMedusa53]

TFW the Kamchatka almost kicks off WW1 ten years early.

[@Isolder74]

Well at least everyone vs the Russians if that counts.

[@JH-lo9ut]

They could even have prevented WW1 by destroying relations between Russia and Britain.

[@weldonwin]

Kamchatka: Do you see torpedo boats? Admiral: What? No we don't see an... Wait, do YOU see torpedo boats? Kamchatka: All the time, laughing at me...

[@malditaseaintensifies-kd8ec]

Ah the Kamchatka... AKA. Everybody's Problem.

[@kuddles29]

It's Russian history, 'And then it got worse' is always on the board.

[@GeneralKenobiSIYE]

I dunno, a lot of the ships the USN took on its world tour in "The Great White Fleet" were coastal battleships and not meant for open ocean sailing, but they managed several heavy storms (one had even been a typhoon IIRC) and none of them suffered significant damage nor were any of those low freeboard coastal battleships in danger of foundering. Though in that same storm, one crewman was actually washed overboard off his ship, and seemingly being the LUCKIEST sailor to have ever lived, a wave washed him right onto the deck of the battleship that had been sailing directly astern of his ship. So the post storm report had one man lost on one ship, and one man added to another.

[@robland3253]

The aurora was so traumatized by the voyage that it went from a competent ship to a key supporter of the Communists

[@demonelf2094]

One can't really blame her.

[@carlossaraiva8213]

Being a supporter of communism at that time was the best option. People often underestimate, due to thfir ingrsined hstred for the USSR, how terrible the russian empire really was. The russian empire was not better than the USSR.

[@GaldirEonai]

@@carlossaraiva8213 Yep. For all its myriad faults and horrors the USSR was still an objective improvement over the empire.

[@7thsealord888]

A true historical event that, if ever turned into a semi-accurate movie or series, would simply not be believed.

[@weldonwin]

Basically it would be something like The Death of Stalin, this black comedy that you just couldn't believe any of it was real and then are shocked by how much of it really happened

[@prestonjones1653]

​@weldonwin I had to pause the Death of Stalin and look up what happened because I was thinking "There's no possible way it was like this." Lo and behold, the only inaccuracies were timing, with some of the minor events happening over the course of months rather than days.

[@soundwavegamer2321]

@@weldonwinhell the director had to decrease the number of medals that Issac wore because he felt he had given him them to make it look comedic even though the field Marshall wore every single medal he earned.

[@weldonwin]

@@soundwavegamer2321 I adore Zhukov's introduction, with him hurling off the coat in the slow motion, all the medals jangling and the big military brass blasting in the background

[@sonofjack6286]

39:48 A large amount likely being tigers and oceanic white tips, as in swimming garbage cans and the shark version of the Fremen.

[@user-dg9pu4pe9d]

It is kind of impressive that they made it to Tsushima.

[@warbacca1017]

I love how when Drachinifel is talking about the parrot at 38:30, the way he says "somebody" makes it sounds like he's actually upset about it

[@jejeakle]

That had to be the first multilingual parrot because there aren’t enough curses in any one language to deal with this lot

[@CruelestChris]

Makes it sound more like he was the one who did it.

[@laggerstudios3392]

Drach's 'Mark 14 Failure is like onions' will have you either laughing or crying at the US's incompetence

[@Isolder74]

As the little girl says, ‘Why not both?’

[@str2010]

Not so much the US, more like BuOrd. As Drach said, US pilots and sailors did their absolute best and sometimes yielded results with these utterly terrible torpedoes.

[@ryanshaver2406]

Yes ! This video as well as the one about leyte gulf

[@dillonpierce7869]

Don't forget the taiho.... operation ten go or the Olympia videos.... And the destroyer development 1914-39 has quite a few good bits in it. Love history with some good jokes thrown in.

[@leechowning2712]

I told him it was upsetting.

[@bthsr7113]

"This gets worse!" Oh I know. That's why I'm watching.

[@TheIronDuke1812]

A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one! Drach is the man

[@darthrevan4933]

To quote the tagline of Russian naval history “and the it got worse”

[@sonofjack6286]

As well as "THIS! ACTUALLY!! *HAPPENED!!!"*

[@dmitryletov8138]

I should remind you about Pearl Harbor?

[@jesuszamora6949]

If Russia had attacked Pearl Harbor, they'd have hit no Americans and shot down half their fleet.

[@weldonwin]

That seems to be the description of the Russian military in general, right up to today it seems

[@CruelestChris]

​@dmitryletov8138 Pearl Harbour only happened once, try harder.

[@Isolder74]

The ice breaker is needed because the Baltic tends to get icy. It helps if you have a way to get your fleet unstuck if you need to.

[@carlossaraiva8213]

The Bothnic Gulf gets iced in the winter but not the Baltic itself. So again the icebreaker was nonsense.

[@JonusAngelus]

I had to stop the video several times to stop myself from literally dying of laughter. The admiral should have done stand-up comedy.

[@karmaalstad5588]

I'm at the Floating Zoo part, they needed a rino.

[@sargenttad4942]

Ohhh Drach! I love drach! This is a welcome event.

[@adrianwytt5466]

Do you see torpedo boats?

[@Isolder74]

No! No one sees torpedo boats. Do shut up.

[@sonofjack6286]

Rozhestvensky: OH *CYKA BLYAT!*

[@karmaalstad5588]

Britain, where is this voyage going again?!

[@karmaalstad5588]

@@sonofjack6286 /sigh....

[@starkindustries26]

No, no one sees torpedo boats, please be quiet 🤫

[@UrbanCohort]

I feel so bad for Adm. Rozhestvensky. Somehow chaperoned his squadron the the Pacific despite its best efforts, then assumed full responsibility for the debacle in the end. o7

[@carlossaraiva8213]

If i directed a miniseries about this i would put a lot of disclaimers at the begining, middlecand end of each episode saying this really, really happen. I would even offer links and notes to the appropriate literature for fact checking for the audience.

[@Dannyedelman4231]

"And then it gets worse" is basically the russian navy throughout history 1600s to Today

[@BlueflameKing1]

Oh God yes, who ever recommended this to you is worthy of the man emperor's glory!

[@DeHerg]

That would be the user Nomquam who used his patreon request for it.

[@kevinnaber790]

Even today, ice breakers are common in Spring and Fall as the many fiords of Sweden and Norway can result in sudden patches of ice in the Baltic and North Sea.

[@chrismaverick9828]

Drach's content is some of the greatest for subtle-dry-British humor.

[@carlossaraiva8213]

There are times even he cant keep it dry and it is alwsys when he ralks about the russian navy. He's only human, he has limits.

[@Isolder74]

Sadly, the records don’t tell us if he ran out of binoculars.

[@jaredrevis4594]

Admiral Makarov was actually a legit genius, hugely influential on naval warfare. It may be good to distrust Russian navies as a general rule, but Makarov was legit.

[@buddyburroughs6072]

Came back to rewatch after a different video mentioned the kamchatka and my brain panicked briefly.

[@theraider3478]

I was crying with laughter this entire video.

[@KernelKonig]

You are a gentleman and a scholar for this my man!

[@The_Bell_Tower]

Look up Drachinifel's naval Darwin Awards.

[@SomeKrieger]

I saw Russia and Pacific and I just wanted to mention this guy called Radio Tapok made a song about the Russo-Japanese War called Tsushima. The song is in Russian but Iron Thunder Lyrics got it translated to English.

[@edgardox.feliciano3127]

The song is actually from Sabaton in English, radio tapok just translated it to Russian

[@darkelite1829]

They make the Imperial recruitment look like geniuses

[@PeterSwinkels]

The swearing parrot had me in stitches! 😂

[@barrybend7189]

In Star Trek Online I named my stealth torpedo ship the Kamchatka. Do you see torpedo boats?

[@Vyrexuviel]

ohhhhgod, I gotta try that with a klingon Bird of Prey. "Now you see the torpedo boat, now you don't!"

[@whee38]

The first time I ever watched this video I passed myself laughing. 10/10 would piss myself again

[@DrUSB1]

I should not have been drinking when they listed the nicknames XD now gotta clean my monitor lol

[@georgekittridge6411]

This will make a great comedy film

[@piratehunter1]

dear god ...an ork waagggg with their commander's head half missing would be more competent than these guys...

[@goldentechmahroop3935]

Yeah we saw what happened there at armageddon

[@thehandoftheking3314]

Their gunnery would be more accurate at least.

[@bungle1521]

I fell in love with the Kamchatka

[@drewjohnson-85]

I’m not defending the Aurora’s crews decision to support the Soviets, but if they continued their superiority in discipline until 1917 I can understand being frustrated with this level of incompetence all around you

[@luisnunes3863]

Not to mention getting shot by your own side...

[@kabob0077]

Y'all see any Japanese Torpedo Boats?

[@karmaalstad5588]

Denmark, where is this invasion again?!

[@shmee123ful]

Ahh finally the inspiration of the administratum

[@JumpingFlapjack]

Kamchatka! Or the speech: "An than it goes worst!" on Water XD.

[@NovaKrysalis]

Just the fact that you keep reminding us that, "Yes, this all happened. It's all true." This voyage is peak comedy. Too bad it gets really dark in part 2.

[@americanslav2262]

Battle of Samar by Drach

[@Isolder74]

Because running is boring.

[@Shaun_Jones]

Just uploaded.

[@phillipmorel5116]

Holy shit your watching a drac video this is awesome!!!! Please watch part 2

[@Isolder74]

I looked it up anf the port they were ransomed at was Copenhagen.

[@Isolder74]

They were also forced to dock in Spain to offload officers who ordered the ships to open fire. He beach a few of the idiots he didn't like too.

[@bthsr7113]

Oh yes, a fail fest to rival the first crusade.

[@BlueflameKing1]

At least the first crusade was a success, in the most ass way possible.

[@bthsr7113]

@@BlueflameKing1 I guess they did nominally achieve their objective,.... while alternating between derp and ethnically/religiously motivated slaughter.

[@sonofjack6286]

First Crusade actually achieved something. The Fourth Crusade didn't even get past Constantinople, decided to sack it, and left it a shadow of its former self.

[@kieranh2005]

Technically the peasants crusade was first, before the First Crusade , and was about as successful as this...

[@luisnunes3863]

@@sonofjack6286 The Fourth Crusade did exactly what the VENETIANS wanted to do.

[@bgcvetan]

Admiral Pethrovich - Stannis Baratheon.

[@ryanshaver2406]

Please react to drachinifel's video on leyte gulf for more of the hilarious.. in a good way actions of navies . plus some great destroyers that showed as much courage as the Piorun. Go USS Johnston

[@Isolder74]

I’m sure the Johnston and Pioron would be drinking buddies.

[@GhostShipBaychimo]

Kamchatka, my clumsy beloved

[@illinoiscentralrailroadfan6015]

You can't go wrong with Drachinifel

[@dragonofdragons1720]

It would be quicker if you asked about what didn't go wrong

[@brigidtheirish]

There wouldn't be a *video.*

[@samargrewal929]

react to USS William D Porter - Guide 026 (Human Voice) by Drachinifel

[@FrogmanAnime]

The Russian Admiral, in charge of the second Pacific squadron didn’t go by the Suez Canal, because he was frightful that it was a bottleneck. He didn’t go because the British, because of the incident with the fishing trawlers, denied him access… Because of the phantom torpedo boat on Dogger bank, the British denied him the request to send the bulk of his fleet through the suez canal.

[@michaelminch5490]

I'm just here for the Kamchatka jokes.

[@PeterSwinkels]

It was worse? Sources! I need a good laugh. 😊

[@Dat-fox-in-a-box]

I know I’m like 2 years late but I would love to see you react to the uss Marblehead and his glowworm

[@redactedredacted4080]

You really need react to the video about the mark 14.

[@fatcoyote2]

I would turn it into a limited series. And it would be a dark comedy.

[@schirpik]

Ahh but wait it gets worst their is a second part that covers the battle just as much fun.

[@Cobalt_Dragon0716]

Talk a comedy of errors. Voyage of the damned, indeed!

[@joemitchell877]

Thanks for the Extra Humor 😊 I watched the Original 5 times it's SOO Stupid...ha ha 🤣

[@jeova0sanctus0unus]

JESUS CHRIST this is worse than the peoples front of the russian navy.

[@shmee123ful]

I do hope thar parrot survived

[@Isolder74]

It did. It just didn’t survive a Russian winter.

[@TheAKgunner]

@@Isolder74 Damn. I really liked that profanity spewing bird.

[@karmaalstad5588]

@TheAKgunner Andrew Jackson had a foul mouthed parrot too. The parrot had to be removed from Mr. Jackson's Funeral.

[@TheAKgunner]

@@karmaalstad5588 One of the reasons Andrew Jackson’s a favorite president of mine.

[@PeterSwinkels]

I'd have loved to know what kind of creative language came from that bird. 😂

[@gvbrandolini]

InteressAnte

[@johnmarksel7663]

Why are you stopping the video and stating the bleeding obvious...with an American perspective...not really necessary

[@DeltaStar777]

What crap, watch the original instead

[@johnmarksel7663]

Do you think that follow naval history are idiots..eg the explanation of blue and brown water navies...give us some respect please

[@dmitryletov8138]

Hey author, why are you laughing? Should you recall Pearl harbor attack, when 23 US ships were destroyed or damaged along with 350 aicraft? Given that USA is not landlocked country.

[@5969destiny]

Japan sunk us ships us sunk Japan and beat Japan at it's own carrier game the Russian lost the war with Japan and lost its fleet how can you compare this to Pearl 😂😂😂

[@dragonmaster3030]

​@@5969destinyI'm failing to see how the Pacific squadron has anything to do with pearl harbor in the first place

[@aauwhatitdo1582]

We got an angry Ivan. 🤣 Russian incompetent knows no bounds. Pearl Harbor ships were lost in an attack. Russians second Pacific fleet lost their battle before it even started. There is no comparison.

[@aauwhatitdo1582]

​@@5969destinyHe's just an emotional and defeated Russian suffering cognitive dissonance. On one hand "glorious Russia is unstoppable" yet on the other hand, Russia has had the most horrendously pathetic history over the last 150 years.

[@CruelestChris]

Pearl Harbour didn't continue to get attacked for several months. The equivalent to this would be if the Japanese had appeared off the coast and the Americans had accidentally blown up the harbour themselves. Followed by New York, Washington DC and Chicago.

[@MegaArtManiac]

Yep I hate it so much. Who advised Tsar on this? just what kind of people were in power back then? What kind of aristocrats #creme de la creme# were looking at this and told everyone Go ahead ! Its going to be fun

[@sonofjack6286]

The Russian Empire was one of the geriatric old men of Europe at this point, alongside the Ottomans, which was slightly better, and Austria-Hungary.

[@forrestpenrod2294]

@@sonofjack6286 Beneath the tech how little has changed.

[@sonofjack6286]

@@forrestpenrod2294 I know, granted losing nearly half the population of the Soviet Union didn't help modern Russia either.

[@bloodrave9578]

Do you see torpedo boats?

[@kieranh2005]

Yes I do. Horizon to horizon, packed gunwale to gunwale.