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Samit Basu
There is nothing wrong with this, these two islands will remain Russian territory after Abe and Putin agree on the terms of the peace treaty.
These two islands are non negotiable, Putin is making it clear.
And Abe san is ready to go along with this scheme according to reports.
Insane Wayne
Excellent idea. Japan is undergoing a massive expansion of their military and it is all offensive. Putin is expecting Japan to attack Russia to retake-retake the islands and revitalize their economy. After all they used war to steal them from Russia the first time. Of course it will work again !
extanker
Moscow protests Japan installing a missile defense system in Japan, but has no problem installing defenses and bringing troops to disputed islands outside of Russia.
Pot meet kettle...
extanker
@weasel
It's because Russia claims that the missile defense system's advanced radar will be used to spy on them. You know, because we can't just use the spy satellites we already have in place to see whatever we want to in Russia, we need to convince Japan to buy an expensive missile defense system and wait years for it to be installed so we can spy on Russia that way...
Goodlucktoyou
Good idea.
1glenn
Sounds like a complete waste of money. How likely is Japan to attack Russia with ICBMs?
Azzprin
Russia will never hand back the islands as they are very strategic importance in defending the Sea of Okhotsk and its nuclear force stronghold
sf2k
Ask Ukraine how that whole handing-back-the-land thing is going
zones2surf
I said this in a post on another article a few days ago and I will say it again here.
Russia and China will NEVER cede territory they believe is theirs and they will do whatever is necessary to protect their claims, including the deployment of military assets to the territory, regardless of the protests and condemnation by other nations. And the same is true for South Korea.
They don't bloody well care about the diplomatic niceties when it comes to territorial claims. As the old saying goes, strength makes right.
So, the Japanese bureaucrats in the Foreign Ministry need to set aside their naive ideas of negotiating with either party over territory these nations occupy that Japan claims.
Similarly, Japan should make no mistake that if it holds territory that these countries have an interest in, it better aggressively defend these territories and invest all resources necessary to do so if it wants to retain control. Particularly in relation to China.
Sorry, but that is the reality. Not trying to be a warmonger or anything, just pointing out the harsh realities.
wtfjapan
Yeah, Stalin was a saint...
no more so than the IJA
smithinjapan
I honestly wonder if Abe has ASKED Putin (or just hinted it would be agreeable) to do this so he can get his way and change the Constitution, while also keeping the ire of the ultra-right by saying he's trying to get the islands back but Russia refuses. This is win-win for Abe.
Peter14
@FizzBit
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/german-soviet-nonaggression-pact
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Poland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_the_Kuril_Islands
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_Russian_Federation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_military_intervention_inUkraine(2014%E2%80%93present)
Just the easiest sources for this information. All well known and documented.
Ah_so
I wasn't sure if you were joking or not, but on reflection, you join a small pool of JT posters who are very pro-Trump and pro-Russia, so I guess not. But do you really have such good access to the mind of Putin?
Samit Basu
@Peter14
The Soviet Union declared the war against Japan on August 8, 1945, and two countries officially remain in a state of war to this day.
And of course warring nations are allowed to occupy the territory from the other, pending a peace treaty to redraw the border.
talaraedokko
Like all other seized lands, Russia is surrounding itself with taken land as buffer zones protecting what it considers their legitimate land. Strategists on this side of the bufffer areas must learn this. China has done the same, just look at the lands between the other powers and it. Others suffer for their own capricious wants.
spaghettiplease
What if Japan started aiding Ukraine
Peter14
The declaration was unprovoked. Japan had not been hostile to Russia during WWII and Russia had not been hostile to Japan. Therefore the declaration and subsequent attacks were unprovoked.
Peter14
Indeed, the allies requested Russia join them against Japan. That in no way negates the fact that prior to their declaration of war against Japan, there had been no hostilities between the two during WWII. In fact the Russians had been worried that Japan would assist Germany who had invaded Russia and held elite Russian winter soldier divisions in the North East Russian territory until they realized that Japan would not attack them, at which point those troops were transferred to reinforce depleted and destroyed divisions fighting the Germans. This enabled the Russians to stop German troops from capturing Moscow and allowed them to launch a winter offensive agains the Germany units who were not outfitted to fight in winter conditions.
elephant200
Russia better hurry up their island defence strategy because the Russian Pacific fleet is aging and may not be able to provide assistance in emergency! There the disputed islands were in siege and more missiles need to be deploy me there!