Sarah Paine
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Well, one is the railway is a bottleneck.
Japan's starting the war deliberately while that bottleneck is bottled.
So that's one factor.
Russia has massive troops.
Also, the Russians are arrogant, right?
They think Japanese.
Initially, the Russians think they're going to do regime change in Tokyo.
That's their plan.
How they plan to get to Tokyo is a mystery, but never mind.
And so they don't realize what they need.
It's a fairly common problem in wars is gross underestimation of the other side, right?
That's what's going on in Ukraine right now.
Putin missed that one.
He's not the only one, right?
Hitler underestimated the Russians in World War II.
And then you go, well, why is everybody, what's going on with Japan now?
And it had a really, those Meiji reforms, they have an educated population.
Russian soldiers are a bunch of illiterates.
And the Russian soldiers are going, what?
Why are we fighting in Manchuria?