Is Russia’s new surveillance base ‘punishing’ Japan for supporting Ukraine?
Is Russia’s new surveillance base ‘punishing’ Japan for supporting Ukraine?
Russia’s new development on the Kuril Islands aims to ‘punish’ Japan for supporting international sanctions and providing aid to Ukraine, analysts say.
The surveillance equipment on the new bases is similar to that used by the Russian Black Sea fleet to gather information on Ukraine, including tracking incoming drones and identifying targets for surface-to-air missiles.
Some analysts view the connection to Ukraine as a message to Tokyo about its support for Kyiv in the Ukraine war.
The connection being.... anti-drone warfare systems are being built in two different places? This reads like the "China Watchers" dropping a 10k word article based on a picture of Xi Xinping with two tea cups and titling it something like "One Xi, Two Cups, Here's What it Means".
russia should've evolved two entirely different strains of anti-drone surveillance systems that are nothing alike, smh
lol yeah basically
Russia doesn't need to make some weird symbolic gesture to punish Japan. Joining the sanctions was enough of a self-own for us, our economy is the worst it has ever been in my lifetime, we are in the midst of a huge energy issue and the currency is absolute trash. More and more imports are becoming non-feasible, we can't even get orange juice anymore.
For sure, Japan needs imports to function, and cutting off the biggest commodity exporter clearly hurts Japan a lot more than it does Russia. It's a similar problem the EU is now facing, but I imagine it's more acute for Japan.