• Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Russia is going down in history as the only country to lose a naval war against a country with no navy.

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      9 hours ago

      Not their first time I believe, they lost their navy before getting to who they needed to fight, whom iirc rescued them instead because they felt so sorry for them

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      We didn’t lose a war with them, but the Barbary Pirates were giving the US trouble before we had a Navy… I also wouldn’t call the first war we had with them entirely successful, but we certainly didn’t lose it.