https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1496788626658807814

edit: Wait no, it's maybe worse. That's the Ukrainian ambassador to Japan so this is actual weeaboo cosplay: https://www.theweek.in/news/world/2022/02/16/ukrainian-ambassador-to-japan-poses-as-samurai-in-message-to-russia.html

Along with the impressive image, Korsunsky wrote in English and Japanese "We know what we are fighting for. How about Russia?"

Sergiy Korsunsky

  • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
    ·
    3 years ago

    The swords really aren't that bad. They had shitty steel to work with and the way they made their swords compensated for that. Everyone used bows and spears more often than swords, because the further you are from the guy who wants to kill you the better off you are. Swords have been mostly a sidearm throughout the world historically.

    • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
      ·
      3 years ago

      True, didn’t mean to imply that Europeans were all about swords or anything. Before guns existed spears were the dominant weapon in pretty much every army for all of history. Cheaper to make, easier to use, and they keep your enemy over there