>huge stroke of luck, or something else, but Japan destroys a Russian fleet at Tsushima in 1905, and leapfrogs into the ranks of Great Powers It wasn’t luck, R

>huge stroke of luck, or something else, but Japan destroys a Russian fleet at Tsushima in 1905, and leapfrogs into the ranks of Great Powers It wasn’t luck, Russia was way behind the other western powers at the time and greatly underestimated Japans capabilities. > this goes to their head, and they proceed to do the most foolish thing at Perl Harbor, and pick a fight with the 800 pound gorilla “Pearl Harbor” is American revisionism. What actually happened that day was one of the most successful coordinated attacks of the entire war spanning across the pacific, against both the British and American empires simultaneously. The Japanese had imperial ambitions and was up hemmed in by the USSR, Britain, and American in basically all directions. They captured not only the Philippines from the US but also dug in deeply into British SE Asia while destroying basically the entire pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor in the same day. They ended up overextending themselves, but it was necessary from a strategic standpoint to secure the natural resources they needed from those colonies.