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Japan should urge more nations to impose Russian sanctions, experts say

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When is Japan gonna stop it sanction busting policy,with Russia something the village would say

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Japanese insurers just reversed course and declared their intent to provide war damage insurance to LNG ships operating in Russian waters.

https://gcaptain.com/japan-insurers-to-continue-offering-war-coverage-for-lng-shipping-in-russian-water-report/

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Russia started this war, and Ukraine, with the help of the free world, will finish it. Remember, all it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. We cannot sit back and do nothing while Putin tries to repeat Stalin's genocide against the Ukrainian people.

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Japan needs to act in its best interest. Japan has nothing to gain by supporting Ukraine except the fickle hollow praises from Biden who is up to his eyeballs in that swamp.

Realpolitik policies strongly favour Japan keeping up trade with Russia and ducking under the Biden radar.

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What a pathetic group of boy scouts, knowing that the sanctions against Russia are being returned negatively and Japan, instead of doing stupid things, must have Russia as a good neighbor, due to its proximity and energy, so Japanj will never recover part of their northern territories..

Definitely, being an enemy of the United States can be dangerous, but being a friend of the United States is fatal..

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Experts urge Japan to urge other countries, what is this.

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Hirose, an expert in the politics of the former Soviet Union, says the "Global South," or developing countries in such areas as Asia, Africa and Latin America, have kept their normal economic relations with Moscow

As they should. They dont have a dog in the fight. The smart play for them is to stay neutral and pick up Russian Energy at a discount. The west has done the same.

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People who wholeheartedly believe in accelerationism are the most irresponsible revolutionaries and deconstructionists. They are eager to change the status quo, but they have not thought about what kind of path to choose after changing the status quo.

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In order to secure other energy sources in the aftermath of the sanctions on Russia, the EU President Ursula Von Der Leyen visited Azerbaijan and called its dictator Aliyev an important partner.

Emboldened by this and Turkey's support, Azerbaijan invaded Armenia and committed war crimes against Armenians.

But you don't get to hear much about it because Armenia is not European enough for the West. This is the level of hypocrisy that G7 endorses, and this fact is not lost on anyone in the Global South.

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For a moment I thought the US and its EU collaborators were the only one pushing for sanction enforcement that nobody was enforcing until Russia itself decided to enforce due to the extortionist price fixing.

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What sanctions? I saw with own eyes nice small packages with delicious crab, costing more than 10,000¥ each and labeled coming from Russia. The big money support for Putin and his new imperial agenda is right in front of you, on the plates and in the osechi boxes for New Year celebrations and all similar such.

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The Global South snubs the NATO because they remember about Iraq, Libya and Yugoslavia to name a few.

Russia has plenty of friends and partners throughout the world.

The Global South also has a very troubled relationship with democracy but don't let that keep you from believing that Russia's image is now that of fascist state.

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*isn't that

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Really? Why? so those countries can turn around and point out Japan is still openly doing business with Russia while they ask others not to?

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Xi is showing subservience to Putin.

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The longer this war goes on , Putin can kill with impunity, nobody cares as long as they get what they want from Putin as long as it do not spillover into their ,they will no care if Ukraine get dismantle,this is only war , without objective reporting as long as they do not see the bodies, people think it just a bad video game

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But you don't get to hear much about it because Armenia is not European enough for the West. This is the level of hypocrisy that G7 endorses, and this fact is not lost on anyone in the Global South.

A little background, Armenia is a member of the CIS, officially depends on Russia for its defense and has Russian bases on its soil. While it doesn't make Armenia an enemy of the west it certainly doesn't engender any affection. Azerbaijan has been cultivated as a possible, maybe someday if they democratize, NATO member in opposition to Russian allied Armenia.

Meanwhile Azerbaijan has become a critical route for Kazakh and Turkmen gas and oil to be transported to Europe. Baku is where Kazakh tankers offload oil for transport by pipeline to either Ceyhan Turkey or a Black Sea port in Georgia for further transport to European customers. Turkmen gas will also follow this route. Because of this Europe seeks good relations with Azerbaijan.

The US Congress seems to be the only western legislature with members openly defending Armenia. Because the Russians have failed to defend Armenia against Azeri military advances, their "peacekeeping" force having utterly failed in the most recent fighting and their government perceived as being more democratic than that of Azerbaijan (not to mention pressure from a large Armenian diaspora living in the US), US diplomats have been quietly trying to woo Armenia away from Russia. There is also no love among the US Congress, either house, for Turkey. Turkey has become an unspoken enemy of the US and their support of Azerbaijan against Armenia is only doing more damage to their relations with the US.

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Being the sole Asian country in G7 was not a good thing sometimes. The white men countries threw the most risky task at Japan, if she failed to convince China and India,than it was soley the fault of Japan being ineffective.

Asia needs a leader like China who has the power to say NO and defiance!

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Xi is showing subservience to Putin.

Hardly. Mr. Xi sees in Russia a useful fool to use the Russian term to bog down the west in a costly conflict that doesn't do any harm to China. In reality Mr. Xi is biding his time until Russia is too weak to defend their far east adequately. China has an axe to grind with Russia as they view much of what Russia now controls in their far east as historically, and rightfully, part of China. Also, a west that has spent its treasure supporting Ukraine against Russia might not be interested in shedding blood and treasure to defend Taiwan. He would be mistaken but Mr. Xi has miscalculated before. Time will tell.

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Armenia is a member of the CIS, officially depends on Russia for its defense and has Russian bases on its soil. While it doesn't make Armenia an enemy of the west it certainly doesn't engender any affection.

In other words, war crimes are okay if the victims are not from a country aligned to us and are not Europeans.

Azerbaijan has been cultivated as a possible, maybe someday if they democratize, NATO member in opposition to Russian allied Armenia.

Never mind that Azerbaijan has been a dictatorship ever since the breakup of Soviet Union, and the more gas Europe gets from there, the less the chances of it becoming democratic. All those high sounding words like human rights and democratic values are not applicable here, since Azerbaijan has oil and gas and more importantly, a dictator who is aligned to us.

The countries which show their finger to G7 by still doing business with Russia don't necessarily support the war in Ukraine. But they do understand that Western countries are hypocrites of the highest order, so whatever they have to say with regards to Russia is going to fall on deaf ears.

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