Posted on 03/22/2022 4:14:03 PM PDT by Trump20162020
Japan went first, going along with Bidens sanctions
Biden had no sanctions.
No real ones.
Are you sure you want them back after the Russians being there all this time ? They probably dumped everything under the sun there
Russia and China, two of the best nations a suicidal neighbor
could ask for.
Japan.
You went woked.
What the fook did you think would happen?
Japan already opened a can on Russia in 1905.
Not sure Japan should play up this dispute all that much. Still a lot of raw feelings about Japan in East Asia in particular. A lot of Asians would see Russia’s seizing control of the islands as fairly legit. The The Japs are lucky more territory wasn’t taken from them.
Sanctions have consequences Tojo.
C’mon. The Russians weren’t going to give them back, anyway. Absent some gigantic bribe or concession from Japan.
What Russia's military did across the Manchurian area was simply amazing.
This is the problem I have with people on here thumping their chests for war. Both those countries, the Ukraine and Russia are barbaric in nature. They have little regard for life.
Russia will use whatever methods they see fit to gain an objective and now there is a man at the helm who is obviously gone off the cliff.
Only since the early 1990s had these two countries started to join the modern society. That is all gone now.
What became of those three Russian troop ships Japan was tracking?
In the spring and early summer of 1945, the main Japanese diplomats put their faith in the Soviets to mediate with the allied powers and soften the demands of the Potsdam conference. At the last minute, when everything was falling apart, nuclear bombs were falling and the Japanese had not heard from the Soviet diplomat in days, they finally got through to him. He listened for a few seconds to their desperate pleas, then cut them off by telling them the Soviet Union was declaring war on them! It goes to show what happens when you rely on diplomacy combined with weakness.
The Battle of Tsushima Strait was one of the most lopsided losses in naval history.
All because 1) Russia was too confident, 2) They had no idea about the Japanese technology (Japanese were actively trained in using Morse code while the Russians had crappy German sets that no one knew how to use) and 3) the win wasn’t about the Japanese beating the Russians, but the Japanese Navy outshowing the Japanese Army that were still engaged in Port Arthur
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