Russian-Japanese Kuril Islands dispute

Abe 'New Approach' to Russia increase economic relations to get leverage in Russia.
Main goals are to find investment opportunities in Russian far east but most importantly to counterbalance China in the region.
Obviously wants to avoid Russia becoming so dependent economically to Beijing that they end up becoming a de facto Chinese vassal.
New Russian focused ministry announced recently but businesses are worried about the sanctions.
Is it time that the US thinks of Russia as a partner against a rising China instead of wasting resources in the European theater and that isolating Russia only makes them more dependent on the biggest American strategic rival?

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Liberal 5th column doing it's thing as usual.

Why the fuck doesn't Russia just give the islands to Japan?
Their country is largest one on the world, why do they need that tiny island so much?

Putin is repositioning Russia to survive in a shifting balance of power in Asia.

nice copy past from breitbart o4r wherever you got your narrative from.
anyway fuck off back to bloomberg you twatr

Also a factor is the American election a Clinton administration will rather nuke japan a third time than allow them to break the line

it's not the island itself
it's the vast sea territory that comes with it

All of Russian foreign policy is based on Russia feigning strength is doesn't have.
If it gives in to demands like this, the entire narrative falls apart.

The Soviet Union was always weary of Russia, so much so that the Soviet Union tried to literally nuke China and it was the USA that stopped them.

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If anything by historical measure, the USA is the one that would secret China as an ally rather than Russia and they have for ages. From FDR to Nixon to Bill Clinton and soon to be Hillary Clinton (her Chinese donors), they've been wanting China on their side for ages. Everyone has wanted China since Roman times and the Silk Road, it was just the British Empire who were the first to seize it.


He can't do that even if he didn't care those islands or wants Japan to have them. It would make him look weak. At best, he'd have a successor "sell" them to Japan like how they sold Alaska to the USA.

Must be a Trotskyite plot!

There is a reason they say keep your enemies close and your friends closer although Russia and China are partners against the US for now the Russian and the Chinese have the worlds biggest border and compete for influence in central and east Asia Putin is probably an idiot if he thinks he can have Chinese money with no strings attached and he is not an idiot.

it's the other way around, you dumbdumb

Probably because Putin has established his persona as a master tactician if they see Putin back down that is going to be damaging domestically yet for the national interest he has to do that.

well damn

Also the problem comes from the definition Japan has agreed to relinquish the Kurils after ww2 but insists that four islands don't belong to the Kurils Russia accepts that two of the four should be returned to Japan after an settlement is made

It would be political suicide.

I'd take gooks over chinks any day. If only Japan was as powerful and uncucked as China we could finally nuke the dog-eaters to ash.

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That's kind of a stretch but they're definetly going that way. For all the 'anti-nationalist' laws that Putin has passed there seems to be a rise in pro-imperial, traditionalist movements all across Russia.

Half their country is Asian, mate.

The people maybe, but Putin quite literally sees nationalism as suicide, since a divided Russia would have a train run on it that would make Genghis blush.

That's my point actually. Nationalism has surged as a consequence of the rise traditionalism in Russia because of the revival of theOrthodox Church, even if Putin doesn't directly encourage it.

Russia is not weak militarily.

Not at all

Instead of importing non-whites to deal with demographic issues Putin repatriated ethnic Russians from former Soviet States.

89% white last time i checked, cherry picking tartars that even poland has is not representative of the actual populace

Some Russian strategic paper written in the 90s suggested offering up the islands as a method to pry Japan out of the US sphere of influence.