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
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.
Then there is the zweihander, a spear which was abandoned as a child and raised by feral swords.
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Very true, as it turns out “Keeping the guy who wants to kill you further away” is almost universally helpful
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.