Voyager1 wrote: ↑March 15th, 2024, 11:22 am
Natural_Born_Cynic wrote: ↑March 15th, 2024, 10:20 am
Western countries and many other neutral countries aiding Ukraine is quite commendable, but they are just putting their money and weapons in a sinkhole.......
It's not a waste of money. It's creating jobs in the countries where the weapons are manufactured.
We can't just let Russia walk into any country they want to.
Former Oligarch: 'Putin's Next Target Seems to Be Moldova'
I say support the Ukrainians. Give them weapons and military support. Don't give them money because you're right it will be stolen, destroyed, pocketed, sold, and mishandled.
The Ukrainian government is just as corrupt as the Russian,
but that doesn't mean we let Russia walk into Ukraine and kill innocent civilians. Ukraine will fight back!
This is very true, we cannot allow Russia to walk into any country they want to - and honestly, for only approx. 145 million people their land is very very large....why do they want more land - for what?
Yes, Moldovia could be next, it's not a NATO member, small with a Russian minority living there....but the Baltic countries might also be a target, they are NATO members, but plenty of Russians are living there....
Here in Far East, it's also a toxic situation, Japan and South Korea facing North Korea - Russian best little friend threatening everybody with nuclear weapons. From where are these nuclear weapons coming from?
The Russian-Japanese border is not far away over the sea either - Russia is not more than 5 to 20 miles away from Japan - depends from where to which island you measure the distance....
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/01/30/7439527/
Former Russian president says Russia will deploy new weapons on Kuril Islands because it "doesn't care"
TUESDAY, 30 JANUARY 2024, 13:51
Dmitry Medvedev, Russian Security Council Chairman, has declared that Russia will place new types of weapons on the Kuril Islands, which Japan seeks to return.
Source: Medvedev on Twitter (Х)
The Kuril Islands will actively develop, and concurrently, their strategic role will increase, including the placement of new types of weapons there.
Medvedev has threatened that the "territorial issue" would be closed "once and for all" according to the Constitution of Russia.
Medvedev said that Russia does not care about the Japanese feelings regarding the Kuril Islands because, as he says, they supposedly belong to Russia. At the same time, he stated that "Americans who are kissing with the French have it much easier because they have forgotten about Hiroshima and Nagasaki."
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On 7 October 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a decree recognising the Kuril Islands as the territory of Japan, temporarily occupied by Russia.
These islands were occupied by Russia shortly
after ending of WW2 and all Japanese living there were kicked out at gunpoint and had to move over by boat to Hokkaido.
More than 70 years of negotiations and result is zero - just zero.
Generally said, a weak Russian economy and poor military performance is only good for us here in Japan.
What can be done about it? It is about to increase military spending in Japan and to reduce any connection with Russia as much as possible.
This includes import of energy, export of cars, international traffic of airplanes/ferries, business related sanctions....
Never depend on Russia!
Of course support of Ukraine is necessary - because what happens to Ukraine now might happen to Moldovia soon.
It could happen to Japan and also to South Korea, and also to Finland, Sweden and the Baltic countries - we all are threatened all the time.
Russia is a threat, a danger and it is not a friendly neighbor, not trustworthy at all.