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Has there ever been a fuck up in history as bad as when the Japanese
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Has there ever been a fuck up in history as bad as when the Japanese attacked pearl harbor?
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When your dad said "don't worry if i pull out you won't get knocked up" and your mom believed him.
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>>378429

Croesus's attack on Persia comes to mind.
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>>378434
>If you attack Persia a great empire will fall
>Oracle's face when
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Khwarezmids killing the mongol ambassadors. Pearl Harbor doesn't even compare.
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>>378429
The Battle of Adrianople.
>There's no way the Goths and their steppe nomad allies have horsemen away from the field, surely everyone they have is in the wagon laager! let's just charge them!
by the end of the day the ERE field army was shattered, the emperor was dead, and the barbarians were laughing all the way to Constantinople
too bad they got stopped by some crazy sassanid instead of sacking the place
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>>378429
Invading the USSR was probably worse.
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>>378601
Just had a quick look at wikipedia and fuck me sideways if that's not the greatest shitstorm ever created by someone for being a dick.
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>>378434
I'll take Crassus' attack on Parthia
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>>378787

That just got him and his family killed, not the entire Roman Republic.
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>>378429
U.S. Foreign Policy.
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>>378601
kinda remind me of the movie 300 where the Spartans kick the Persian embassador into the whole
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>>378798
I'd rather the Roman republic fall then get a mouthful of molten gold.

I'm selfish like that.
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>>378810
>into the whole
>the whole
>whole
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>>378601
This.
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>>378853
whole hole*
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