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America has woken up and hopefully PC notions and BLM will be left in the dust, at least for awhile.

Tom Mazanec wrote: Sun Mar 06, 2022 2:28 pm > If this war is bad enough there won’t be a future history.

Putin’s Invasion Is a Turning Point in Japan’s Relations with Russia

Even as Russian troops amassed on Ukraine’s borders, Japan’s government persisted with this failing policy. Indeed, in an extraordinary misjudgment, Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa conducted trade talks on February 15 with Russian Minister of Economic Development Maksim Reshetnikov. However, Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine on February 24 has made the “new approach” completely untenable.

To begin with, an emphasis on deepening economic cooperation with Russia is now impossible, not least because on February 25, Japan announced three categories of sanctions: 1) visa bans and asset freezes on “designated individuals related to Russia”; 2) asset freezes on three Russian banks (VEB.RF, Promsvyazbank, Bank Rossiya); 3) restrictions on the export to Russia of dual-use goods such as semiconductors. The day before, Japan banned the issuance of Russian sovereign debt within Japan. After some delay, Japan added that it would also contribute to efforts to exclude selected Russian banks from the SWIFT financial messaging system. These are considerably less restrictive than measures introduced by other G7 members, yet they are still a sign that ties with Russia will not return to business-as-usual.

Furthermore, both Putin and Lavrov are now international pariahs, who are personally sanctioned by the United States, European Union, Canada, and United Kingdom. On 27 February, the Japanese announced that it too would subject Putin to sanctions. It is thus unthinkable that the Japanese prime minister can resume courting them in the way Abe’s government did. In fairness, Abe himself seems to recognize that engagement with Russia cannot continue as before since, on February 25, he publicly described Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a serious challenge to the international order that must not go unchallenged.

Japan has declared today that the southern Kurils is their sovereign territory.
The Prime Minister of Japan Fumio Kishida announced it during his speech in the parliament on March 7,–JIJI reports https://t.co/GUy5ZksJnc

Euromaidan Press Euromaidan Press (@EuromaidanPress) March 7, 2022