The Romanovs and the Russo-Japanese War Disaster

In 1904, Tsar Nicholas II plunged Russia into a war with Japan over rival ambitions in Manchuria and Korea. The conflict exposed the crumbling Romanov autocracy: incompetent generals, a fleet that sailed halfway around the world only to be annihilated at Tsushima, and a domestic crisis that boiled over into the 1905 Revolution. Lucas and Luna explore the siege of Port Arthur, the 'Mad Dog' General Kuropatkin, the patriotic frenzy that soured into defeat, and how Russia's first major war against a non-Western power presaged the empire's collapse. Along the way they consider the Battle of Mukden, the Dogger Bank incident, and the Treaty of Portsmouth that made Theodore Roosevelt a peacemaker. A story of hubris, naval catastrophe, and a tsar's fatal miscalculation. #RussoJapaneseWar #NicholasII #PortArthur #Tsushima #Kuropatkin #Manchuria #1904 #1905Revolution #DoggerBank #TreatyOfPortsmouth #TheodoreRoosevelt #MakinoNobutake #RussianNavy #ImperialJapan #EasternEurope #History #FexingoHistory #War Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo