Quote (IchBinDaddy @ Apr 22 2022 12:44pm)
"Since the beginning of the second phase of the special operation, which began literally two days ago, one of the tasks of the Russian army is to establish full control over Donbas and southern Ukraine. This will provide a land corridor to Crimea," Maj. Gen. Rustam Minnekaev, the acting commander of Russia's Central Military District.
Japan has just described 4 northern islands as “illegally occupied by Russia.”
Located off the coast of the Japanese island of Hokkaido, the disputed territories were captured by Soviet forces following Japan's surrender to Allied Forces in 1945. “Japanese territories over which Japan holds sovereign rights, but are currently illegally occupied by Russia.”
To be clear : these islands were taken more then 50 years ago. This to my mind is : America has had a word with Japan and thus we see this in the news.
China: Japan: The government used the expression in its annual foreign policy report to describe the islands, which Moscow calls the Kurils and Tokyo the Northern Territories. Japan also said the Ukraine crisis would stall its peace treaty talks with Russia.
France: Japan described four disputed islands as "illegally occupied" by Russia for the first time in nearly two decades on Friday as ties sour between the countries over the war in Ukraine.
America: Japan reinstated a reference to Russia’s “illegal occupation” of disputed islands in its annual diplomatic report for the first time in 19 years, as relations between the neighbors turn increasingly hostile following the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine. The two countries have been locked in a territorial dispute over a group of islands known as the southern Kurils in Russia and the Northern Territories in Japan for more than 75 years. The Soviet Union seized the disputed islands in the final days of World War II, expelling thousands of Japanese residents.
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In the round this is a piece of history brought to the fore as requested in order to ramp up tensions / drive / will.
This post was edited by ferdia on Apr 22 2022 06:01am