okay...and how do they do that? I mean it's Russia they can't do shit, why should someone be afraid of that limp dick of a country?
Well, Russia could send the Baltic Fleet to the Tsushima Straight in order to fight the Japanese: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=yzGqp3R4Mx4
lol I always enjoy watching that
lol
But, they're not. Japan is giving it to the US. Of course, the US is trans shipping to Ukraine, but that's a different story.
When an asshole country “warns” against doing a thing, it can usually be taken as an additional reason to do that thing.
This is Russia's final warning!
I’m super cereal this time!!!!
Russia's final warning.
The only option left after that is a dreaded red line
"Don't do that!" -the second best military in their own country
Do Russia and Japan have ties? Don't they have that one border dispute?
You could say that.
Technically, World War II is still going because Japan and Russia never formally ended hostilities between each other.
Formal peace treaties are not actually needed to end a war, just like a formal war declaration isn't needed to start a war. This is a myth that is frequently used by conspiracy-tards, specifically German Reichsbürger.
Oh, I know. It's an amusing factoid that may be true on paper, but not in practice. Like how North Dakota technically wasn't a state until 2012.
But it's also essentially meaningless now because the two governments that declared war (Soviet Russia & Imperial Japan) no longer exist.
The debate over control of the northernmost Japanese islands, however, is a very real sore spot between Japan and Russia.
"That one" border dispute that's been going on for centuries.
there is some islands coming off a penisula that russia took over that belong to japan.
Russia can’t take Ukraine after several years of trying… now Putin thinks he has a chance against a Japan that has the full backing of the American military behemoth?
This threat is the yipping of a scared dog, nothing more. Even if Americans didn’t march alongside Japanese soldiers, we’d supply the best we have to them for defense like we have since reconstruction
They know it's an empty threat, but they've still got to make it to save face perhaps. If they attacked Japan I'd hurt myself laughing.
yeah? what are they going to do, fight a two front war? that always totally works out!
Why doesn't the US have enough Patriots themselves?
I mean Japan doesn't really have to worry about being attacked. The US will do the work if Japan gets attacked.
Last week, Japan said it would prepare to ship Patriot air defence missiles to the United States after revising its arms export guidelines, in Tokyo's first major overhaul of such export curbs in nine years.
That's alright then!
We shouldn't call them Patriots anymore if they're being imported from foreign countries and taking jobs away from decent, hardworking American missiles
We need to build a wall to keep all of those Commie Bombies out of our country dammit.
Japanese ones are actually made under license to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
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