trainedchimpanzee:

kineticpenguin:

In fairness to the crew of the Moskva, being destroyed in a humiliating fashion by an enemy you wildly underestimated is in keeping with the highest traditions of the Russian navy

I always wondered - say they get their strategic goal of multiple warm water ports in the black sea, and a steel industry to boot. Wtf are they going to do with it that’s not just more of this?

Same as lakes Biwa, Victoria or Michigan, one presumes