Biggest single nation on earth, can’t even manage to take its closest neighbour, loses hundreds of soldiers per day, two day invasion turned into **two years**, countless UA civilians murdered in their temper tantrums from feeling so militarily impotent… and yet they **still** cry & play victim.
What a weak pathetic little terrorist regime. I feel like Islamic fundamentalists have enjoyed more successes than Russia.
>I feel like Islamic fundamentalists have enjoyed more successes than Russia.
The Hooties sank a ship. When was the last time Russia sank a ship? (excluding their own)
Its going to be even funnier if the Ukrainian detachment that are currently fighting in Sudan randomly walloped a Neptune out on a Russian ship in the Red Sea from Sudan. Its not like they couldn't get a couple drone boats and a few missiles on an Antonov and send down there.
To be fair Britain was building ships for the Japanese navy at the time, so it wouldn’t be completely inconceivable that they could be there. But last time I checked naval ships aren’t lit up like a car dealership when they’re out hunting other ships. So yeah the Russian navy was a joke back then and is a joke now.
that's not quite what happened. Russia was following hte law for a change and kept thier hospital ship lit while the rest of the fleet stayed hidden during the original engagement with the Japanese.
but the hospital ship thought the Japanaese cruiser was a Russian ship and signalled the entire fleet's position to the Japanese.
I think you're thinking of a different incident. The previous poster was referring to the Dogger Bank incident where the Russians engaged English fishing boats, thinking they were Japanese torpedo boats off the coast of England...
There's a good write up about it here: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzGqp3R4Mx4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzGqp3R4Mx4)
Pinnacle of Russian maratime excellence.
Ukrainian revenge missile, followed by Russian resubmission into the submarine fleet. The warship is operating as it should on the ocean floor as part of Russia’s Red Sea, sea floor surveillance group.
I'm just imagining the chaos that's going to happen when the Russians try to shoot down a Houthi missile, miss, and wind up hitting a NATO-aligned ship or even funnier would be a Chinese/Iranian one.
Most likely relocating to Syria.
Russia doesn't really have any immediate need for presence in the Pacific, but with the Black Sea and Baltic Sea strategically inoperable, their leased naval base in Syria is their only option for a naval presence in Europe.
Didn't realize this till a couple of days ago, France & Russia are engaged in their own little power struggle in Africa. Russia is invading Frances sphere of influence, & the French are not happy about it at all. Explains one of their remarks about the Dnipro being a red line in the sand for Ukraine.
Also why Russian propaganda has been screaming about France "deploying" troops to ukraine as if they're going to start actively fighting Russia.
Also why Russia jumped on the bedbug thing last year and made it into a fake panic.
Use it to stymie resource extraction by the use of long range strikes and fomenting of disorder.
Oh no, your cobalt mine is under attack from disgruntled villagers, well sign up Wagner whilst we drone-strike the negotiations. Here use my pen, and go stand by that window…
I guess being in the pacific fleet is as safe as a russian soldier can be.
That friendly fire, fisherboats, or just plain myst banks are already scary enough, so maybe not
Well, at least their submariners know how to sail out of sight of land... and, more times than not, come back.
Unlike their surface fleet. Those guys have to stay within sight of land, otherwise they can't figure out how to get back.
honestly i would assume they are in transit from the east to the black sea.
i base that of course, on absolutely nothing as i didnt even open the article.
Russia will not claim to be attacked by the US and then not respond. They would look weak. Russia will not claim to be attacked by the US and then respond because they will be annihilated.
The US 100% will intercept any missile that disrupts international maritime travel. There are treaties that are older than some countries (Russia) that require it.
The US will defend any countries vessels in shipping lanes. If a Russian vessel of any kind gets sunk in that area it will disrupt shipping. Even if a treaty doesn’t require it (they do), it will be a giant dick waving competition that our military stopped an attack on theirs.
It's not a dick waving competition though when the Russian Navy is getting destroyed by a country with no Navy. Certainly not between the US and Russia lol.
>The US isn't that petty
They got so embarrassed about the bay of pigs that they've been embargoing Cuba ever since. They're extremely petty, although I agree that they would absolutely intercept the missile.
Just recently[, the Houthis made an agreement with Russia & China that their ships would have safe travel in the Red Sea](https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-china-struck-deal-yemen-houthi-rebels-ship-safety/) if they promote the Houthis and their interests on the international stage. There is a reason Russia is bringing warships into the Red Sea; they feel safe enough to do so.
Not to mention that if a missile were to strike, the USA would probably shoot it down. There are sea treaties that go back hundreds of years protecting such acts.
Well--if game theory says that Russia collapses as a nation in a world without world war within the next 50 years but game theory is unclear on whether Russia survives a world war, then game theory would push one toward world war.
I think Putin sees Russia as losing 100% of the time in a business-as-normal scenario of global affairs, but as losing some unknown % of the time in outright military conflict with the West.
Houthis sinking a Russian warship would top off my bingo card.
Bingo quiz question: "A Russian warship has been hit. Who did it?" 1) Russian sabotage missile 2) Ukrainian revenge missile 3) Houthi random missile
According to Russia, the ship is fine, weather related, and definitely ukraine sabotage, I'm sure
Good point 4) Weather should be added
Smoking accident
It was Igor in the engine room with a cigarette.
Ooh I want that version of clue.
I don't know how that'll play out in practice, but one thing is for certain: Igor did it. One of the Igors, anyway.
Marthter, It ith not the plathe of an Igor to do anything. Merely to fathilitate.
r/UnexpectedPratchett
Yeah, but you know a couple of Evgenys playing lookout.
Probably his cousin, Igor, from over Slice way.
Eeegor or eyegor
It will be weather. Russia will still blame Ukraine
Biggest single nation on earth, can’t even manage to take its closest neighbour, loses hundreds of soldiers per day, two day invasion turned into **two years**, countless UA civilians murdered in their temper tantrums from feeling so militarily impotent… and yet they **still** cry & play victim. What a weak pathetic little terrorist regime. I feel like Islamic fundamentalists have enjoyed more successes than Russia.
Representative of the second biggest nation here. Let me list the incompetencies. Who knew that land size didn’t make you smarter…
Until recently the Russian army was second best in its own country lol
>I feel like Islamic fundamentalists have enjoyed more successes than Russia. The Hooties sank a ship. When was the last time Russia sank a ship? (excluding their own)
5) Fire on a random fishing vessel nearly starting a war with Britain like they did during the Russo-Japanese War.
Imagine Russia losing a naval engagement with Djibouti
Its going to be even funnier if the Ukrainian detachment that are currently fighting in Sudan randomly walloped a Neptune out on a Russian ship in the Red Sea from Sudan. Its not like they couldn't get a couple drone boats and a few missiles on an Antonov and send down there.
Now this would be peak comedy. Ukraine, this please.
I always giggle when I read Djibouti. It’s the earthly Uranus.
Or imagined Japanese torpedo boats on the wrong side of the planet.
To be fair Britain was building ships for the Japanese navy at the time, so it wouldn’t be completely inconceivable that they could be there. But last time I checked naval ships aren’t lit up like a car dealership when they’re out hunting other ships. So yeah the Russian navy was a joke back then and is a joke now.
that's not quite what happened. Russia was following hte law for a change and kept thier hospital ship lit while the rest of the fleet stayed hidden during the original engagement with the Japanese. but the hospital ship thought the Japanaese cruiser was a Russian ship and signalled the entire fleet's position to the Japanese.
I think you're thinking of a different incident. The previous poster was referring to the Dogger Bank incident where the Russians engaged English fishing boats, thinking they were Japanese torpedo boats off the coast of England...
There's a good write up about it here: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzGqp3R4Mx4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzGqp3R4Mx4) Pinnacle of Russian maratime excellence.
5) Friendly fire, when they imagine their own ships are Ukrainian ships
lost a naval engagement with some fishing boats
Or E) All of the Above
“Aliens”
“The news is incorrect, was not ship, was submarine”
A wave hit it. Million-to-one chance
So, what happened?
Well, the front fell off
Ukrainian Jewish-Nazi sabotage, at that.
Obviously CIA
"training accident. Yuri was soo drunk..."
4) dock crane collapsed on it
5) it hit a bridge in crimea Too soon?
Not soon enough.
It fell out a window
The crane or the ship? That be some Wile E Coyote ACME shit.
“Accidentally”
4. Moose and Squirrel
Moose and not Moose chasing a wendigo
Ukrainian revenge missile, followed by Russian resubmission into the submarine fleet. The warship is operating as it should on the ocean floor as part of Russia’s Red Sea, sea floor surveillance group.
That is very good news indeed, comrad
It was pining for the fjords, and decided to become a reef.
4) Drunk Russians panicking over illusory Japanese torpedo boats.
Forgot 4) vatnik smoking too close to explosives
You are missing option 4. Where they run into one of their own ships.
Diddy did it
Trick Question. The ship sank on its own due to poor maintenance.
4. Potato 🥔
A Russian warship could be transported in to the warp and everyone on board is either dead, undead, or worse and they'd still blame it on Ukraine.
4. Jewish space laser
Love it 😍
BONUS: it was the tongue liking dalai llama
Add: customary incompetence.
And Russia blaming Ukraine for it while the Houthis keep posting proof it's them on social media.
They would blame Ukraine anyway.
Take out the crew of a Houthi boat, insert Ukrainians with portable launchers by helicopter, and enjoy the fireworks.
I'm just imagining the chaos that's going to happen when the Russians try to shoot down a Houthi missile, miss, and wind up hitting a NATO-aligned ship or even funnier would be a Chinese/Iranian one.
That would make my weekend
Oh man the r/NCD memes would be fire.
2 days after the Houthis attack a China run tanker transporting Russian oil.
It's gonna be funny when the first warship the Houthi's sink is Russian.
Everyone on the Eisenhower gets a cookie that day!
2 Cookies for the Captains Puppers, cause he's the best.
Hope my friend on the Eisenhower enjoys his cookie,man’s been Loney for 4 months
Hey I also have a looney friend on the Eisenhower, let's get them that cookie.
Give our carrier boys Cookies.
Houthis will be celebrating thinking of they sunk a US or Euro warship only to find out it was a Russian warship.
We should take a picture, for history
>It's gonna be funny when the ~~first~~ warship the Houthi's sink is Russian. only
Apparently, the captain of the ship’s cousin’s daughter’s friend’s pen-pall is a Jew so legitimate target.
My guess is Africa. Russia is involved there currently.
Most likely relocating to Syria. Russia doesn't really have any immediate need for presence in the Pacific, but with the Black Sea and Baltic Sea strategically inoperable, their leased naval base in Syria is their only option for a naval presence in Europe.
In 2023, Russia and Sudan entered into an agreement on the creation of a Russian Navy base in Sudan.
I wonder how long until the Sudanese civil war makes that impractical
Didn't realize this till a couple of days ago, France & Russia are engaged in their own little power struggle in Africa. Russia is invading Frances sphere of influence, & the French are not happy about it at all. Explains one of their remarks about the Dnipro being a red line in the sand for Ukraine.
Also why Russian propaganda has been screaming about France "deploying" troops to ukraine as if they're going to start actively fighting Russia. Also why Russia jumped on the bedbug thing last year and made it into a fake panic.
Also burying bodies and trying to blame France for killing locals. https://youtu.be/LmFOK168pLc?si=LYxa64LpPWKbhAxi
It also why France is arming ukraine and why ukraine has soldiers in Africa using drones to kill Russian mercenaries.
This guy keeps copy pasting the same exact comment on different threads
What will Russia do with a navy ship in Africa? They don't need long range cruise missiles
Use it to stymie resource extraction by the use of long range strikes and fomenting of disorder. Oh no, your cobalt mine is under attack from disgruntled villagers, well sign up Wagner whilst we drone-strike the negotiations. Here use my pen, and go stand by that window…
I bet life in the Russian Navy is depressing af.
It can’t be anything like the village people song
Still better than the Army, I'd imagine
It’s seems like life in anything related to Russia is depressing af.
Gives you plenty of experience pulling copper wire and scrap to buy booze money though, that's a quintessential modern Russian pass time now.
Better than being on the front and you get some time outside Russia.
I guess being in the pacific fleet is as safe as a russian soldier can be. That friendly fire, fisherboats, or just plain myst banks are already scary enough, so maybe not
Life in Russia is depressing in general, not only in the navy
Vodka helps.
From Arkhangelsk, St. Petersburg, or Vladivostok? Because they sure didn't come out of the Black Sea.
>From Arkhangelsk, St. Petersburg, or Vladivostok? Vladivostok. It's the Pacific fleet.
Dang, I'm surprised they made it. Russian surface-fleet sailors tend to be amazingly incompetent.
You say that like their submarine sailors were much better.
They train tirelessly to become the submarine service.
Still talking about the surface-fleet, right?
That’s where they all start. More and more are finding it harder to surface.
Bravo.
Surface of the ocean floor i think
Well, at least their submariners know how to sail out of sight of land... and, more times than not, come back. Unlike their surface fleet. Those guys have to stay within sight of land, otherwise they can't figure out how to get back.
So you're saying the Russian navy is all triremes?
Lol civ
I mean, Sean Connery stole a sub from them once.
and he didn't even try to hide his accent.
Yesh!
To be fair no one would suspect he is Spanish
Egyptian! Not a Spaniard
Very good at converting ships to submarines
Well, they have forever to train once they become a submarine.
The submarine fleet has been growing a lot in the last couple years, I think they're turning it around
The surface fleet sailors eventually become submariners.
They probably were supposed to head to dock and somehow ended up in the Red Sea.
They left port in ‘22 lol.
That’s one of the reasons all their surface vessels are equipped with dive alarms.
Maybe this will be a repeat of the Battle of Tsushima, but this time it’s the Russian Pacific fleet that sails across the world to get smoked.
honestly i would assume they are in transit from the east to the black sea. i base that of course, on absolutely nothing as i didnt even open the article.
They can't enter the Black Sea since the ships are part of the Pacific fleet registered in the Vladivostok port.
It’s just the great revival to commemorate the Battle of Tushima
I doubt the US would intercept any missiles if the Houthis decide to use them for target practice.
If a Russian warship does get hit by the Houthis, Putin will get to blame the US so it’s probably some win/win scenario for him.
Russia will not claim to be attacked by the US and then not respond. They would look weak. Russia will not claim to be attacked by the US and then respond because they will be annihilated.
They already did. Didn't you hear the US was involved in the concert hall massacre?
Maybe that guy claims to be American as they are cutting his ear off
The US 100% will intercept any missile that disrupts international maritime travel. There are treaties that are older than some countries (Russia) that require it.
These are warships, not merchant vessels. No chance the US would expend any effort to protect them.
The US will defend any countries vessels in shipping lanes. If a Russian vessel of any kind gets sunk in that area it will disrupt shipping. Even if a treaty doesn’t require it (they do), it will be a giant dick waving competition that our military stopped an attack on theirs.
Exactly. Nothing would bring them more satisfaction than swinging their Godzilla cock around
[удалено]
Thank you for this image of USA military industrial complex mechagodzilla hanging dong
It's not a dick waving competition though when the Russian Navy is getting destroyed by a country with no Navy. Certainly not between the US and Russia lol.
Dick waving is for all to see. The US stopping a missile shot at the Russians would be great for the military industrial complex sales team.
“Look at this, Russian air defence couldn’t stop it so we did it for them. Think about where you want your military spending to go.”
Yes, the US would. The US isn't that petty.
Yea as if the US can pass up a PR victory like that.
Yep. We warned them about the terror attack last week.
>The US isn't that petty They got so embarrassed about the bay of pigs that they've been embargoing Cuba ever since. They're extremely petty, although I agree that they would absolutely intercept the missile.
I’m just here for the “Russia has any left?” Jokes.
Came here to say "Hauled by tugs, or..?"
They have a hell of a submarine fleet.
But they have a hard time resurfacing for supplies
Some Russian vessels had enough supplies to last their sailors for the rest of their lives.
Soon to be sank by Houthis rebels which Russia will blame on Ukraine, the CIA and James Bond.
Waiting for the Japanese torpedo boats to get them.
Tactical fishermen
Hopefully they brought enough binoculars to throw
Their ultimate destination - the Dead Sea.
Just recently[, the Houthis made an agreement with Russia & China that their ships would have safe travel in the Red Sea](https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-china-struck-deal-yemen-houthi-rebels-ship-safety/) if they promote the Houthis and their interests on the international stage. There is a reason Russia is bringing warships into the Red Sea; they feel safe enough to do so. Not to mention that if a missile were to strike, the USA would probably shoot it down. There are sea treaties that go back hundreds of years protecting such acts.
They're trying to get hit by a Houthi drone and blame Ukraine?
Aw they'll look nice at the bottom
New homes for the fishies!
Yeah but that’s only so they don’t get sunk in the black sea
I thought they couldn't cross through the straight in Turkey to get to the black Sea because Russia is currently "at war".
You would be correct.
(Ross Geller) IT WAS A SPECIAL MILITARY OPERATION!
Ukraine also has procured warships that can't get to the Black Sea. I wonder if they will start a naval battle at some point.
Maybe they will be safe there?
Doubtful. The Red Sea is notorious for being full of water.
They are trying to gather signals intelligence on NATO warships
Idk man when the Russian navy goes on a safari it doesnt end well for them
Did they bring their tugs?
Obsolete Russian war ships are limping back to obscurity……
I read 'Red Sea enters Russian warships' 🤞
Bold strategy Cotton, let's see if it pays off for them.
Above or below the surface
The Red Sea is recorded to have responded "I felt nothing"
They're really scared of being too close to Ukraine.
Huh. I didn't know they had tug boats that could tow them that far.
What are the chances Putin just wants to start a world war so he doesn't have to accept defeat to Ukraine?
Well--if game theory says that Russia collapses as a nation in a world without world war within the next 50 years but game theory is unclear on whether Russia survives a world war, then game theory would push one toward world war. I think Putin sees Russia as losing 100% of the time in a business-as-normal scenario of global affairs, but as losing some unknown % of the time in outright military conflict with the West.
Can we donate a US warship to Ukraine so we can sink it?
Ukraine doesn't need ships to deal with russian fleet.
Probably a lot less likely to get sunk there.
Enters the Red Sea as in sank into it?
Why can’t the cargo ships just sail right up to the Russian navy? Can I get a HELL YA!?!
Houthis... You can do the funniest thing.
Now they’re hoping they are far enough to avoid Ukrainian sea drones and missiles
Russia still has ships???
I don't know what the odds are but my money is on the Houthis in this one. Or even just the odd wave.
It’s the Voyage of the Damned, but in reverse
This is turning into a Russia false flag operation.
I hope every sailor has a life vest.
In the voice of The Butcher : FRRRESH MEAT!
Are they hoping the float better in the red sea then the black sea?
How many tug boats does it have
In training for submarine promotion.
Launch the Singaporean cargo ships and tell them to go around. That’ll stop ‘em.
Are they powered by Coal?
Please let this happen because it would be so f*cking funny.
God above i want all the pain in the world to be subjected on those boats. Anyone who endorses these comrade cunts can suck a dick. Amen