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Prime Minister of the State of Israel, Yair Lapid on twitter:
— "I welcome the decision of the parliament of Azerbaijan to open an embassy in Israel.

Azerbaijan is an important partner of Israel and home to one of the largest Jewish communities in the Muslim world.

The decision to open an embassy reflects the depth of relations between the countries.

This move is the fruit of the Israeli government's efforts to build solid political bridges with the Muslim world.

I want to thank President Ilham Aliyev and congratulate the Azeri people who will now be represented for the first time in the State of Israel."
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x posted from the Indo UK thread


Slick and lying tante truss tried her best to get India to stop buying russian oil

these colonial cultured britshits have been slyly, illegally, and crookedly gaming the system all the while.



https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/slic ... -798j805mp


Slick use of loophole keeps Russian oil flowing into Britain

At least 39 cargos, worth more than £200m, have not been declared

The publication also claims that, according to British trade statistics, since March, the country has received £ 778 million worth of oil from the Russian Federation.


The UK continues to receive Russian oil, despite the sanctions : The Sunday Times.

There are two main ways to circumvent sanctions: pumping oil from tanker to tanker on the high seas and importing it through third countries, Sunday Times noted.

The publication also claims that, according to British trade statistics, since March, the country has received £ 778 million worth of oil from the Russian Federation.


Venezuela sells to Panama. Panama makes new certificate n sells Panama crude oil to USA. all owned by American business houses. I am sure it will be the same cartel behind this uk oil name change game.
from the net

Laith Al-Khalaf
Sunday November 20 2022, 12.01am, The Sunday Times


As Vladimir Putin’s army bombarded Ukrainian soldiers trapped in the Azovstal steelworks in May, the tanker Mariner III pulled out of the south Russian port of Tuapse carrying nearly 200,000 barrels of oil.

After five days at sea, the 170m (558ft) ship stopped alongside a bigger tanker, the Greek-owned Marinoula, in the waters off Kalamata, Greece. Over the next 36 hours, the two vessels were connected by large rubber pipes while the Marinoula siphoned off some of the Mariner’s cargo. After the ship-to-ship transfer, the Marinoula sailed to the UK, where it docked at Immingham in Lincolnshire and, on June 6, offloaded about 250,000 barrels of oil.

Official records, however, declare that the UK received no oil from Russia in June or in July.
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aise dost ho, toh dushman ki zaroorat nahi.....

Europe accuses US of profiting from war

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

EU officials attack Joe Biden over sky-high gas prices, weapons sales and trade as Vladimir Putin’s war threatens to destroy Western unity.


Allies or not?
Despite the energy disagreements, it wasn't until Washington announced a $369 billion industrial subsidy scheme to support green industries under the Inflation Reduction Act that Brussels went into full-blown panic mode.

“The Inflation Reduction Act has changed everything," one EU diplomat said. "Is Washington still our ally or not?”

For Biden, the legislation is a historic climate achievement. "While we understand that some trading partners have concerns with how the [electric vehicle] tax credit provisions in the IRA will operate in practice with respect to their producers, we are committed to continuing to work with them to better understand and do what we can to address their concerns," the NSC spokesperson said. "This is not a zero-sum game. The IRA will grow the pie for clean energy investments, not split it."

But the EU sees that differently. An official from France’s foreign affairs ministry said the diagnosis is clear: These are "discriminatory subsidies that will distort competition.” French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire this week even accused the U.S. of going down China's path of economic isolationism, urging Brussels to replicate such an approach. “Europe must not be the last of the Mohicans,” he said.

The EU is preparing its responses, such as a big subsidy push to prevent European industry from being wiped out by American rivals. "We are experiencing a creeping crisis of trust on trade issues in this relationship," said German MEP Reinhard Bütikofer.

"At some point, you have to assert yourself," said French MEP Marie-Pierre Vedrenne. "We are in a world of power struggles. When you arm-wrestle, if you are not muscular, if you are not prepared both physically and mentally, you lose.”

Behind the scenes, there is also growing irritation about the money flowing into the American defense sector.

The U.S. has by far been the largest provider of military aid to Ukraine, supplying more than $15.2 billion in weapons and equipment since the start of the war. The EU has so far provided about €8 billion of military equipment to Ukraine, according to Borrell.

According to one senior official from a European capital, restocking of some sophisticated weapons may take “years” because of problems in the supply chain and the production of chips. This has fueled fears that the U.S. defense industry can profit even more from the war.

The Pentagon is already developing a roadmap to speed up arms sales, as the pressure from allies to respond to greater demands for weapons and equipment grows.

Another EU diplomat argued that “the money they are making on weapons” could help Americans understand that making “all this cash on gas” might be “a bit too much.”

The diplomat argued that a discount on gas prices could help us to "keep united our public opinions” and to negotiate with third countries on gas supplies. “It’s not good, in terms of optics, to give the impression that your best ally is actually making huge profits out of your troubles,” the diplomat said.
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NYT highlights India’s potential to mediate between Russia and Ukraine. (Nov. 6, 2022)
Could India Help Broker Peace in Ukraine?
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/06/worl ... ussia.html



Obviously, the NYT would never make such a statement unless okayed at the highest levels of the ameriki administration.

So, what gives....

lost nerve, or battle fatigue, or the dawn of wisdom, or the fact that the euro goras are really pissed off at being taken for a ride by the greedy amerikis and the amerikis are wanting to cut their losses (of reputation and trust) and limit the downside

even the foolish price cap brainwave has run into a lot of euro and global opposition

Not much hope of extra eyaab oil/gas expected to flow into the market and help in keeping the energy prices in check by replacing the russki oil, just in case putin takes his oil/gas off the market partially/completely.
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West working overtime to keep money flowing to RUS for grain and fertilizers
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^^^
Confusion, denial and delusion at its best !
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chetak wrote:NYT highlights India’s potential to mediate between Russia and Ukraine. (Nov. 6, 2022)
Could India Help Broker Peace in Ukraine?
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/06/worl ... ussia.html



Obviously, the NYT would never make such a statement unless okayed at the highest levels of the ameriki administration.
ultimate gut punch for liberals as soon a deal is reached Z is toast. Yesterday on TV channel a Ru officer said, Ukr aides of Z have target painted on their back for rest of their lives.
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IndraD wrote:
chetak wrote:NYT highlights India’s potential to mediate between Russia and Ukraine. (Nov. 6, 2022)



https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/06/worl ... ussia.html



Obviously, the NYT would never make such a statement unless okayed at the highest levels of the ameriki administration.
ultimate gut punch for liberals as soon a deal is reached Z is toast. Yesterday on TV channel a Ru officer said, Ukr aides of Z have target painted on their back for rest of their lives.
Indeed saar.

This is the KGB that they are talking about.

tata, khatam, khallas, goodbye as the fake eyetalian prince would say
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Meghupdates says India-Canada to sign a Free Trade Agreement soon.
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It will be interesting what India asked for in return for signing a FTA.
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sanjaykumar wrote:It will be interesting what India asked for in return for signing a FTA.
India should ask for the creation of Khalistan inside Kanneda.
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No doubt Khalistan was discussed. But they may as well ask for the moon to be recognised as Khalistan territory.

As this Sikh fellow said the khalistanis can’t even land in Delhi and they are going to get Khalistan. Sirf alfaz hi nahi khoon e jigger bhi chahiye.

I think the GOI makes too much of this Khalistan thing. It is or will be Canada’s problem. Hopefully it stays just vote bank politics.

I must say there is some derision developing in the mainstream populace. The joke goes, what do you call a bearded, turbaned man? A Liberal (as in Trudeau’s political party). Certainly not a little racist.
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ramana wrote:Meghupdates says India-Canada to sign a Free Trade Agreement soon.

the following are in the pipeline/under active processing/consideration

FTA negotiations are on between India-UK, India-Australia (done), India-Canada, and India-US, India-EU, India-gelf states and India + individual countries in europe.

There are many others in various countries who are also keen to tap into the Indian market.

Seems more like a routine business of state to me, after all India has remained economically stable and politically pragmatic and now, beyond all doubts, India's leadership has proven to be strong, resilient, generous to the poorer countries (vaccines, grain, medicines etc) and reliable

the capacity to export weapons is the icing on the cake.

In a manner of speaking, we have stared down the cheenis, amerikis and the euro goras and still remained on credible talking terms with all of them, (well, may be not so much with the cheenis).

That's not only super confident political tightrope walking but also a diplomatic ballet of the quality rarely seen in international relations and all that translates to very strong street cred
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PROJECT BAKONG: Next Generation Payment System
Called Bakong, the blockchain-based nationwide payment system from the National Bank of Cambodia officially launched in October 2020 and is recognized as one of the world's first central bank digital currencies (CBDC).
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dated but illustrative
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east- ... d-tomorrow
Mr Pierucci said the US Department of Justice (DOJ), without notifying him first, filed charges against him in 2012 for breaching America's Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) for his alleged role in a corruption case involving Alstom in 2003-2004 in Indonesia.

In April 2013, Mr Pierucci was arrested in New York by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation. A year later, Alstom was asked to pay a huge fine of US$772 million, which eventually led to the partial acquisition of the French company by General Electric, its arch-rival.

"My book describes my descent into hell, and shows how the DOJ used me to make Alstom pay the biggest fine in its history for having broken the FCPA," Mr Pierucci told Xinhua.

"That facilitated the buyout of 70 per cent of Alstom by its main American competitor General Electric, blocking a potential merger between Alstom and Shanghai Electric Company," he added.

"By buying out Alstom, the United States gained control of the maintenance of all the French nuclear power plants, which produce 75 per cent of the electricity produced in the country," he recalled.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/15/busi ... rance.html
A record 26 of its 56 reactors are off-line for maintenance or repairs after the worrisome discovery of cracks and corrosion in some pipes used to cool reactor cores.

The crisis is upending the role that France has long played as Europe’s biggest producer of nuclear energy, raising questions about how much its nuclear power arsenal will be able to help bridge the continent’s looming crunch.
sadness in a series of coincidences..
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There is also the murky story of "Arabelle" - world's most powerful steam turbine designed and manufactured by Alstom with EDF, 100% French. There is a reason why this could happen only under Macron's watch and a dossier on him found at Mar a Lago. US industry's IP theft has continued after WW2, cold war and goes on even today.
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such freedom, much democracy
hey, freedom house and v-dem, you feckless <poof>, measure the nutz of these rights
https://www.fwi.co.uk/news/environment/ ... -emissions
The Dutch government is planning to buy up and shut down almost 3,000 farms in a bid to meet tough EU greenhouse gas emissions targets.

The targets dictate that the Netherlands must halve emissions of nitrous oxide and ammonia by 2030.

To meet this, the Dutch government will use some of a dedicated £22bn programme to buy out farm businesses at more than 100% of their value.

If farmers ignore the offer, the Dutch government will begin a programme of forced buyouts next year.

Farmers have barricaded roads with blazing straw, spread slurry across streets and let off fireworks.

In some areas, up to 40,000 protesters have descended on cities and fought police in violent, running battles.

Other protests have gridlocked motorways with columns of slow-moving tractors advancing on the Dutch parliament buildings in The Hague.
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https://twitter.com/TheAusToday/status/ ... 7714752512

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https://twitter.com/sbabones/status/1599736207457808384
Salvatore Babones
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Today I received a strange letter from the #DismantlingGlobalHindutva gang in which they tried to shut down academic debate about Hinduphobia and anti-Hinduism. This video is my reply. It offers a rare insight into the world of academic pettiness and intolerance. Enjoy!


How academic hitjobs are working

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The Hawk Eye @thehawkeyex
Why The Wire sr. journo Arfa Sherwani cropped the sponsors' names in the "invitation" at Umass in her twitter and Facebook posts?

Anyway here are the names -
Indian American Muslim Council
Boston South Asia Coalition
Asian Studies Deptt
Political Science Deptt.
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2 hours 15 minutes long .

US Intelligence community & conflict with Russia - Ray McGovern, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen

Ray provides a lot of nugets for anyone interested in geo-anything

Military Industrial Congressional Intelligence Media Academia Think Tank Complex (MICIMATC) - Ray coined that some time ago.

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vijayk wrote:
Anyway here are the names -
Indian American Muslim Council
Boston South Asia Coalition
Asian Studies Deptt
Political Science Deptt.
Stranegly the only person who is wearing a bindi is the woman with a Muslim name.
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Vayutuvan wrote:
vijayk wrote:
Stranegly the only person who is wearing a bindi is the woman with a Muslim name.
Bangladeshi
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December 9, 20229:17 AM ESTLast Updated 8 hours ago

China to use Shanghai exchange for yuan energy deals with Gulf nations - Xi

BEIJING, Dec 9 (Reuters) - China's President Xi Jinping said in Riyadh on Friday that China and Gulf nations should make full use of the Shanghai Petroleum and National Gas Exchange as a platform to carry out yuan settlement of oil and gas trade.

China and states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are natural partners for cooperation, Xi said in a speech at the China-GCC summit.

"China will continue to import large quantities of crude oil from GCC countries, expand imports of liquefied natural gas, strengthen cooperation in upstream oil and gas development, engineering services, storage, transportation and refining, and make full use of the Shanghai Petroleum and National Gas Exchange as a platform to carry out yuan settlement of oil and gas trade," he said.

In his speech, Xi proposed other areas for cooperation in the next three to five years, including finance and investment, innovation and new technologies, as well as aerospace, and language and cultures.

"China is willing to carry out financial regulatory cooperation with GCC countries, facilitate GCC enterprises to enter China's capital market, establish a joint investment association with GCC, support sovereign wealth funds of both sides to cooperate in various forms," Xi said.


China will also establish bilateral investment and economic cooperation working mechanisms, carry out local currency swap cooperation and deepen digital currency cooperation, he said.

In his speech, Xi also called on China and GCC nations to be partners in promoting unity, development and security.

Xi's visit comes at a time when Riyadh's long-standing alliance with Washington has been strained over human rights issues, energy policy and Russia, as well as Gulf doubts about the commitment of main security guarantor America to the region.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy ... 022-12-09/
The SCO wants to establish a parallel global financial network to force a GCC slide away from the dollar. I've been writing about this issue for sometime and it seems as though China is finally taking some concrete steps to do it. The Russians helped maneuver this beautifully by backing the Iranians and the proxy war in Iraq and Yemen. The US also hung itself with the losing streak over the last two decades. The Saudis are definitely all ears for a slow but steady realignment with the SCO. My prediction is they will enter BRICS. I think after the Russians win in East Ukraine there is going to be some fireworks which will occur within a couple years in the financial and commodity markets.

Saudis are trying to play the same game that India is playing.
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In the early 1930s Prof Unwin wrote a book "Sex and Culture"

link: https://ia800309.us.archive.org/33/item ... 442580.pdf

Fair warning its 78 MB scan pdf.
Why Monogamy Matters
The book that predicts cultural collapse in 2060

In 1934, Unwin published Sex and Culture, an exploration of the relationship between sexual freedom and cultural development:

When I started this research I sought to establish nothing and had no idea of what the result would be. With care-free open-mindedness, I decided to test, by a reference to human records, a somewhat startling conjecture that had been made by the analytical psychologists. This suggestion was that if the social regulations forbid direct satisfaction of the sexual impulses the emotional conflict is expressed in another way, and that what we call 'civilization' has always been built up by compulsory sacrifices in the gratification of innate desires.
Because of what Unwin discovered, his book has been almost universally neglected by academia: ‘Any human society is free to choose, either to display great energy or to enjoy sexual freedom; the evidence is that it cannot do both for more than one generation.'

by Thomas Couture, The Romans in their Decadence

What is energy? Unwin explains:
‘If we observe the human organism, we notice that it possesses at least three attributes that appear to be lacking in all other mammals. ... Its exclusive possession of three attributes, however, is attested and undeniable. These are the power of reason, the power of creation, and the power of reflecting upon itself. I define the cultural process as the series of events for which these powers are responsible. Human energy, as I use the term, consists of the use of these powers, which are potential in all human organisms.’ (417: these numbers refer to Unwin’s numbered paragraphs)
Placing ‘the cultural process in what seems to be its proper relation to the biological and universal processes,’ (xiii) he found ‘a close relation between sexual opportunity and cultural condition’. He mentions a modern parallel: ‘psychological researches reveal that the placing of a compulsory check upon the sexual impulses, that is, a limitation of sexual opportunity, produces thought, reflection, and energy.’ (317)
‘Any human society is free to choose, either to display great energy or to enjoy sexual freedom; the evidence is that it cannot do both for more than one generation.'
Monogamy produces social energy; sexual freedom leads to social collapse:
‘In the records of history, indeed, there is no example of a society displaying great energy for any appreciable period unless it has been absolutely monogamous. Moreover, I do not know of a case in which an absolutely monogamous society has failed to display great energy. In the past different societies have risen up in different parts of the earth, flourished greatly, and then declined. In every case the society started its historical career in a state of absolute monogamy, manifested great energy while it preserved its austere regulations, and relaxed after a less rigorous tradition had been inherited by a completely new generation.’ (369)
These were his main findings:
- Sexual constraints always lead to cultural flourishing, whereas sexual freedom always led to the collapse of the culture three generations later.
- The most important factor is pre-nuptial chastity.
Pre-nuptial chastity coupled with absolute monogamy is the most energizing. Cultures that sustained this for three generations exceeded all other cultures in every area. Only three ever managed it.
Abandoning prenuptial chastity leads - within three generations - to abandoning absolute monogamy, deism, and rational thinking.
- Embracing total sexual freedom produces an “inert” culture at a “dead level of conception”: people focus only on their own wants and needs. Such cultures are conquered by others with greater social energy.
- There is a time lag: a generation can live off the energy generated by the previous monogamous one but won’t pass energy on to the third generation.
Soros via SC is promoting the unraveling of the Indian culture.
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An Australian view about hos Oceania is now a new battleground between China and #AUKUS

https://twitter.com/batchelorshow/statu ... R5conQeSHg

1/4: Oceania now in a diplomatic battle between the #PRC and #AUKUS: 1/4: Nicholas Thomas, author, Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific;
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The cheeni view on the QUAD


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^^^^^

What else is new?

That is what "pole"s do. The Greeks did. The Romans did it. ......... The French, Brits, and now the US is doing it.

The question is do Indians - not the GoI - want India to be a "pole"? If Indians want India to be a pole then please do it too. Else China will do it. Actually, China has already done it and no Indian is pointing it out - China has stated that the "Indian Ocean" does not mean it belongs to India (or something like that).

The time for analysis is over. Act.
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The Chinese ambassador is erroenous.
India and Japan created Indo-Pacific partnership. US under Trumped muscled their way in and wnated to bring Australia.
India resisted for a long time and eventually arelected.
And India has said many times that QUAD is not a military allaince.
And its aims are that naval poweers get together and cooridnate strategies.
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https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/ ... nse-shift/

Hope to see some joint production of weapons with us.
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https://twitter.com/sidhant/status/1604026853362368513
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Japan's New National Defence Strategy, announced yesterday has China mentioned 39 times, Russia mentioned 19 times. Calls for security cooperation with India. It's a major policy overhaul by Tokyo since WW2 as it increases defence spending.
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Japan will further deepen bilateral & multilateral defense exchanges including service-to-service exchanges in a broad range of field including maritime security and cybersecurity: Japan's new national defence strategy on India
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DDIndia doing better job than most Indian channels
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ramana wrote:The Chinese ambassador is erroenous.
India and Japan created Indo-Pacific partnership. US under Trumped muscled their way in and wnated to bring Australia.
India resisted for a long time and eventually arelected.
And India has said many times that QUAD is not a military allaince.
And its aims are that naval poweers get together and cooridnate strategies.
The Chinese know fully well that the QUAD is not a military alliance. All this rona dhona is preemptive victimhood onree saar !
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Japan has mentioned 3 countries as threats in its Defense Strategy. China, NoKo and Russia. Adding Russia there is going overboard and burning bridges IMO. Would not have happened if Shinjo Abe was alive and at the helm. The present PM Kishida has folded nicely under the US' wing. Makes me wonder if Abe's assassination was just some crazy going berserk.
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old news but shows where the cheeni army is coming from

Institutional weaknesses were apparent even then







https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/ ... an-rampage
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Reason: Removed the stereotype image which is carrying on UK propaganda. Ramana
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Cyrano wrote:Japan has mentioned 3 countries as threats in its Defense Strategy. China, NoKo and Russia. Adding Russia there is going overboard and burning bridges IMO. Would not have happened if Shinjo Abe was alive and at the helm. The present PM Kishida has folded nicely under the US' wing. Makes me wonder if Abe's assassination was just some crazy going berserk.
Please don’t fall for “presentism” when it comes to assessing relationship between old powers. Russia-Japan has always has been a hostile entity to each other since Czar rule, with yet to be settled territorial disputes. The most significant pre-WW1 naval battles were between these two with Russia being soundly beaten and that has settled in as sore point till date.

This has nothing to do with present US policies or Ukraine.
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