I’m sorry..... polish claims? That is freaking Konigsberg aka Prussia.
No,it is Królewiec.City which was polish vassal for 200 years or more,but never russians.And soviets keep it without any international law supporting their taking.
I’m sorry..... polish claims? That is freaking Konigsberg aka Prussia.
No, not the southernmost Kuril Islands - ownership was settled in the 19th century(1855, Treaty of Shimoda). In 1875, the Treaty of St. Petersburg had Japan get the entirety of the Kuril Islands in exchange for Russia getting Sakhalin Island. Of course after the Russo-Japanese War, Japan got the southern half of Sakhalin. What Japan claims are the limits of the Treaty of Shimoda - the southern third of the Kurils: Kunashir, Iturup, Shikotan and the Habomai islands.The only reason that those islands were temporarily Japanese was the Russo-Japanese war of 1904.
So Japan stabbed Russia in the back, took part of what it had agreed was Russian territory, Sakhalin, prior because Russia agreed to let them have the Kurils, then it has the temerity to complain after Russia takes the territory it ceded for Sakhalin.No, not the southernmost Kuril Islands - ownership was settled in the 19th century(1855, Treaty of Shimoda). In 1875, the Treaty of St. Petersburg had Japan get the entirety of the Kuril Islands in exchange for Russia getting Sakhalin Island. Of course after the Russo-Japanese War, Japan got the southern half of Sakhalin. What Japan claims are the limits of the Treaty of Shimoda - the southern third of the Kurils: Kunashir, Iturup, Shikotan and the Habomai islands.
Exactly.The Kuril Islands have been traditionally inhabited by the Ainu people, who are close to the Japanese and generally associated with Japan.
Its at least as legit as Russia's claim to Ukraine.
Luckily the Kuril's are close enough that Japan could use stand-off munitions to wreck any military bits on said islands, and sustain that bombardment, long enough to reduce casualities on landing by a significant amount.Having said this, there's no way Russia could conventionally defeat the Japanese military based on what we are seeing in Ukraine... but I doubt Japan wants a war, it needs its men (and women) to make babies, not fight wars.
I like that you have enough optimism to think that.@Bacle Any supposed "play for the Baltics" by Russia is just propaganda.
No need to go neo-Imperialist on Asia, Japan has good enough ties with most of Asia now that it doesn't need to conquer them.Japan establishing a Japanese Foreign Legion of weebs to go Neo-Imperialist on Russia and East Asia isn't the weirdest thing that's ever happened historically, but it would have us really going full circle as a species.
No. The southern part of the Kurils wasn't on dispute after 1855, and wasn't part of the 1875 Treaty(which was the territory which Russia, as you put it, 'ceded'). That's why Japan claims the 1855 borders, not the 1875 ones.So Japan stabbed Russia in the back, took part of what it had agreed was Russian territory, Sakhalin, prior because Russia agreed to let them have the Kurils, then it has the temerity to complain after Russia takes the territory it ceded for Sakhalin.
yeah, in this case Japan is being a sore loser.
No,it is Królewiec.City which was polish vassal for 200 years or more,but never russians.And soviets keep it without any international law supporting their taking.
If Russia thinks they can take all of Ukraine and are willing to use their milatary to get it then by the same logic Japan is free to take all of the Kurels.
And China can take Outer Manchuria if it is willing to withstand a nuclear attack by Russia.
At this rate Poland's population might grow as much as 10% by June, with most of the migrants allegedly being of limited economic utility and with food and energy prices soaring.The latest and still growing count had 2,276,103 people entering Poland, 586,942 in Romania, 381,395 in Moldova, 349,107 in Hungary, 272,012 Slovakia, 271,254 in Russia and 6,341 in Belarus.
AJ has a live migration tracker:
Russia-Ukraine war by the numbers: Live Tracker
At this rate Poland's population might grow as much as 10% by June, with most of the migrants allegedly being of limited economic utility and with food and energy prices soaring.
Geez, I certainly don't want to be in any Pole's shoes right about now, especially if my theory of a possible EU heel face turn/kick em while they are down strategy comes to fruition as I predict.
EDIT: nice little interview with Patrick Lancaster
Hungary's FM on sanctions and energy realism, diversification of energy providers will take at least 5 years and cost us, it is a matter of mathematics and physics, not of politics and posturing.
Add the Visegrad group to the list of Ukronazi casualties!
Thanks for breaking it, Poland!
Well, if you go by what Peter Zeihan has been saying, those old rules are how the world actually works; the new ones are just a temporary thing forced on everyone by the United States, and won't last for much longer.you play by the old rules you have to deal with the old price.
No idea who that guy is, but Mearsheimer, Kissinger and Kennan both thought that what worker since time immemorial, aka balance of power realpolitik will still work and the USA's little ideology driven hegemony is the exception, not the norm, and that it is divorced from reality.Well, if you go by what Peter Zeihan has been saying, those old rules are how the world actually works; the new ones are just a temporary thing forced on everyone by the United States, and won't last for much longer.
No idea who that guy is, but Mearsheimer, Kissinger and Kennan both thought that what worker since time immemorial, aka balance of power realpolitik will still work and the USA's little ideology driven hegemony is the exception, not the norm, and that it is divorced from reality.
Also, all the end of history idiots and neocucks like Fukuyama and the Kagans are getting high on their own farts.
No idea who that guy is, but Mearsheimer, Kissinger and Kennan both thought that what worker since time immemorial, aka balance of power realpolitik will still work and the USA's little ideology driven hegemony is the exception, not the norm, and that it is divorced from reality.
Also, all the end of history idiots and neocucks like Fukuyama and the Kagans are getting high on their own farts.
AJ has a live migration tracker:
Russia-Ukraine war by the numbers: Live Tracker
At this rate Poland's population might grow as much as 10% by June, with most of the migrants allegedly being of limited economic utility and with food and energy prices soaring.
Geez, I certainly don't want to be in any Pole's shoes right about now, especially if my theory of a possible EU heel face turn/kick em while they are down strategy comes to fruition as I predict.
EDIT: nice little interview with Patrick Lancaster
Hungary's FM on sanctions and energy realism, diversification of energy providers will take at least 5 years and cost us, it is a matter of mathematics and physics, not of politics and posturing.
Add the Visegrad group to the list of Ukronazi casualties!
Thanks for breaking it, Poland!
Of course.That is why Biden before war told that small agression mean small sanction - Putin could take rest of Donbas,Marjunpol,and rest of the world except Poland would not care.
When, in 5 - 15 years?Ukrainian refugees' main value is their human capital. If they're old, then this can't help much, but if they're young, then they should eventually become productive workers.
When, in 5 - 15 years?
Meanwhile, they are just mouths to feed that probably won't understand Polish.
Also, more proof Biden is senile: