Gilligan at this point.
Admiral Kuznetsov was built in Nikolayev (now Mykolaiv), Ukrainian SSR.
It’s like the Ukrainians saw this coming and sabotaged the ships decades ago! 
Double tap.
Drachinifel, with his dry British humor, covered the 2nd Pacific Squadron in a 42-minute video, “Voyage of the Damned.”
If they’re looking out and prepared for it, of course. But there would be no excuse for the Moskva in this circumstance to not be at the ready for a tactic of diversion or being attacked from more than one direction – except the aforementioned expectation that the Ukrainians must suck even worse than the Russians.
They probably let their guard down since Putin assured them they were not at war
Ukraine got Kuznetsov’s sister ship in the divorce and swiftly pawned it off on the Chinese
Hit me once shame on you. Hit me twice shame on me.
“The warnings come after the spell.”
Stranger
Hehehe, I recently ordered a shirt of the Kamchatka asking “Do you see torpedo boats?”
Would it be useful here? Or just a big target? (Genuinely asking)
Aircraft carriers are for raiding far flung targets. So unless Ukraine wants to attack Vladivostok, it would have no utility in this war.
A carrier in the area of the Black Sea would be a “hazard to navigation” in short order. No place to run, no place to hide and within range of roughly a jillion land-based radars.
We’ve pinpointed where she was hit.
The revenge slogans such as “Remember the Maine,” “Remember the Alamo” and “Remember Pearl Harbor” are born out of different events than normal military defeats.
“Remember the Maine” had its origins in the yellow journalism and beat the drums that the dastardly evil Spanish made a cowardly attack on our peaceful ship and was useful tool in pushing America into war.
“Remember Pearl Harbor” was a sneak attack, of course, prior to a declaration of war.
And god-awful expensive to maintain and operate.
Right. And, as far as I can tell from the reporting, Russia isn’t using conventional land based airpower very effectively. Naval aviation would be wasted.
“Remember the Alamo” was an ordinary defeat, but the Mexicans executed all the Texians who surrendered. There was a similar massacre at Goliad earlier and the slogan “Remember Goliad” was also current during that war. It is less well-known, probably because Fess Parker wasn’t there.
BTW, Pearl Harbor was only a sneak attack because the Japanese embassy in Washington was slow to translate the declaration of war and so delivered it some time after the initial attack. Probably wouldn’t have made any difference in its use in a revenge slogan, though.
Japan declared war 7 1/2 hours after attacking Pearl Harbor in an imperial rescript published on the front page of Japanese newspapers. The 14 Part Message, which you are referring to and was delayed in decoding and translating, wasn’t a declaration of war. It didn’t even break off diplomatic relations, it only ended ongoing negotiations. Full text of the message here, the concluding line reads
The Japanese Government regrets to have to notify hereby the American Government that in view of the attitude of the American Government it cannot but consider that it is impossible to reach an agreement through further negotiations.
What exactly changes with a formal declaration of war? Does it relate to conventions, whether actions might be considered ordinary crimes vs war crimes, whether a perpetrator is treated as a criminal or enemy combatant, something like that? Even if it made no practical difference, did it make any theoretical difference in the case of the Pearl Harbor attack?
From the Japanese government’s perspective, did they think that the last line of the 14 Part Message was a declaration of war? Not just a question of lost in translation but a very indirect style of formal speech - the Emperor announced surrender in a radio address with “the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan’s advantage” and “we have ordered the acceptance of the provisions of the joint declaration of the powers.”