LOS ANGELES.–Warning Japan about sending Patriot missiles to Ukraine, Russia’s Japanese Amb. Nikolai Nozdrev said if Japanese-made missiles show up on the Ukraine battlefield there would be draconic consequences. Nozdrev didn’t say what Russia would do but they obviously have many economic and military options, including annexing four disputed Kuril Islands, left over after WW II. Russia occupies the islands but Japan disputes the sovereignty. Russia controls the Sakhalin Island which is only 500 miles from Japan’s Hokkaido Island. If Russia retaliates against Japan, they could station nuclear warheads on Sakhalin Island, pointing them at Japanese cities. President Joe Biden, 81, hasn’t considered the consequences to world peace of his proxy war in Ukraine against the Kremlin. Japan has now been put on notice to not supply Ukraine with any U.S.-licensed Patriot missiles.
Biden pretends that the world order is the same after the Ukraine War but clearly U.S.-Russian relations has deteriorated to the point that only the most tenuous back channels exist with very little grounds for cooperation. Pretending he’s helping Ukraine’s sovereignty from a Russian invasion doesn’t begin to tell the consequences of Biden’s proxy war against the Kremlin. Gone are the days of U.S.-Russian diplomacy, détente and arms control, now pitting the world’s biggest nuclear superpowers against each other. Biden no longer has a global partner in the Russian Federation to deal with hot spots around the globe, now plaguing commercial shipping in the Houthi-dominated Red Sea. Global shipping company, Svendborg, Denmark-based Maersk has suspended all commercial shipping in the Red Sea due to Iranian-backed Houthi terror attacks.
Biden continues to provoke Russia and China by assembling a NATO-like coalition in the Indo-Pacific to confront Beijing’s aggression in the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait. Japan has become an integral part of Biden’s anti-Russia and anti-Chinese union designed to stop China from building military installations in the Spratly Islands where shallow waters and coral reefs provide China with military building opportunities, giving Beijing dominance in the Ind-Pacific region. Former President Barack Obama, while Biden was Vice President, won a ruling in The Hague’s International Court of Justice, ordering China in 2016 to stop encroaching on international waters in the South China Sea. Japan’s military coordinates with the U.S. now threatens Russian national security in Ukraine, showing the linkage between U.S. foreign policy in Eastern Europe and the Indo-Pacific.
Biden has been gaslighting Congress and the public about 71-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin’s intentions in Ukraine. Biden claims that Putin has his sights on Poland and the Baltic States if the U.S. can’t stop him in Ukraine. Putin has given numerous interviews saying emphatically that he has no interest in invading any NATO country. Putin says Ukraine was the exception because Biden decided he was going to arm Ukraine to the teeth on the Russian border, presenting an implacable threat to the Kremlin. Putin asked Biden for months before the Feb. 24, 2022 invasion to discuss new security arrangements for Ukraine, ignoring all of Putin’s requests for dialogue. When the invasion happened, Biden said it was “unprovoked and unjustified,” denying he forced Putin’s hand. Now Biden tries to cobble together anti-Russia and anti-Chinese countries in the Indo-Pacific.
Japan has little to gain and much to lose supplying Japanese-made Patriot missiles to Ukraine. Why would Biden want to involve other countries in what’s become a reckless, costly and unwinnable war against the Kremlin? “Accordingly, we will be watching carefully to make sure that the Patriots deliveries not end up in Ukraine, because if that happens, there will be the most severe consequences for bilateral [Russia-Japan] relations, including our retaliatory steps,” RIA cited Nozdrez saying. Former President Donald Trump, 77, GOP’s presumptive nominee, says he will end the Ukraine War in 24-hours, meaning he will notify Kiev that he’s cutting any humanitarian and war funding. Ukraine’s 46-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky says nothing Trump would do would stop the war. Pulling Japan into his conflict with the Kremlin is another reckless move by Biden.
Trump and independent presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. both say that the Ukraine War damages U.S. foreign policy and national security. They both say they would end the war at the earliest possible time with the plan of restoring normal diplomatic relations with the Kremlin. Biden talks of getting U.S. citizens imprisoned in Russian jails back to the States. But how does that happen, even through smoky backrooms, if the U.S. is at war with the Kremlin. RFK Jr. cites his uncle President John F. Kennedy has saying U.S. officials must walk in Russian shoes to engage in meaningful diplomacy. Biden has done just the opposite, ignore the concerns of U.S. funding proxy war in Ukraine against the Kremlin. Biden’s proxy war in Ukraine destabilizes world peace and threatens to push the world to the brink of WW III in Eastern Europe and Indo-Pacific.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
