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

  • BoxedFenders [any, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Even medieval European knights primarily fought with lances and poleaxes, with swords mostly used as backup- or to cut down retreating infantry. The imagery of two knights in plate mail swinging swords at each other is a Hollywood fantasy.

    • SaniFlush [any, any]
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      3 years ago

      Then there is the zweihander, a spear which was abandoned as a child and raised by feral swords.

    • mr_world [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      They also carried daggers with their swords because if you're in a tight area like a battlement or something you can't really draw a sword easily. Daggers were faster to draw and much better CQ stabbers.