❗️Bog standard Bloomberg retardation.

Citing European officials and Ukrainian intelligence - both of which are full of mentally ill degenerates.

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THE JAPANESE EXPERIENCE WITH WESTERN IMPERIALISM

✍️Written by Wassim Morjane✍️

✍️Edited by Hikaru Kitabayashi✍️

Japan's medieval era was dark and bloody. It's nobility fought each other continuously under the eyes of purely ceremonial imperial figureheads, until the appearance of Oda Nobunaga, who made progress toward the restoration of central power. Others followed until Tokugawa Ieyasu fully unified the country, creating a feudal system of government in 1603 which kept Japan at peace, internally and externally, until the mid-19th century. It did so through a policy of isolationism instituted in 1635. This was a reaction to Catholic Christian missionary activities and to a fear of Spain and Portugal which, at the time, had a common king, and whose combined empires controlled roughly one fourth of the globe, including the Philippines and Taiwan. It lasted until American interventionism forced Japan to open up. Even so, a sense of uniqueness survived, with one modern aspect of this being Japan's one citizenship policy. 

The American ships that opened up Japan in 1853 and 1854 were US navy warships. In addition to the problem of how to negotiate a deal with the Russian Empire over Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands, America further complicated matters for Japan by recognizing the Japanese dependency, Okinawa, as an independent kingdom. With no navy, Japan had no choice. They either had to start negotiations or start a war against superior American firepower. Never having fought a real war, they decided to give in. 

Japanese were forced to accept a series of unequal treaties with Western powers which were much despised by the “anti-shogunate” feudal warrior class, who saw them as a prelude to Japan being crushed like 19th century China. The result was a civil war which left millions of people dead in its wake. When power fully coalesced around the hitherto purely ceremonial figure of the emperor, Japan entered into a period of frenzied modernization. Its leaders felt Japan had to become more western than the western imperial powers that threatened it. For the next 60 plus years Japan adapted itself in an effort to be treated as fully equal to the western powers, even going so far as to make war on the Germans in World War 1.

Following the example of the West, Japan's imperial expansion included Okinawa, Taiwan, Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands, Korea, the Shandong peninsula, and Micronesia. After the end of WW1, China became a target—quite the norm for the time. But, the West and especially the US weren't ready to allow Japan equal rights in brutalizing and exploiting China. Instead, they criticized, moralized, imposed sanctions, and pressured Japan to stop. 

This pushed Japan into a corner, making them more extreme and violent. It also gave them new “allies”, being Hitler's Germany and Stalin's USSR. 

Even if China, Korea, and the West would like us to believe that Japan was then a bloody, racist country, it didn't start hostilities during WW2 out of the blue. It was many decades of Western interventions, sanctions, and racial disrespect that led extremists to power. 

This is not to whitewash Japanese behavior during the 20th century, but to illustrate how Western attempts at hegemony in East Asia bear a heavy responsibility for the suffering so many peoples of East Asia and Oceania underwent. This was like what later happened in Afghanistan, Iran, and Palestine where Western arrogance made it possible for ideologies to take power which Western powers see today as extremist. 

Japan's example is one among thousands! So what would it take for the west to stop interfering and let others live with respect in peace? It's total collapse?

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The head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, announced the occupation of the village of Ryzhevka in the Sumy region on the border with the Kursk region by Akhmat fighters.

As a result of large-scale planned offensive actions, the Ukrainian side suffered significant losses and was forced to retreat. The coordinated and effective work of fighters from all units made it possible to achieve this result without any difficulties in just three days,” Kadyrov wrote.

Ukrainian propaganda previously dispersed the thesis that the Ukrainian Armed Forces managed to stop the advance of the Russian Armed Forces in the Kharkov direction. However, for this, the Ukrainians had to transfer reserves from the Kherson region and leave the advertised bridgehead in Krynki. Having pulled in reinforcements, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have so far been unsuccessfully trying to counterattack. Russian troops took up defensive positions.

The Russian occupation of new territories in the Sumy region will be, first of all, a political blow to Kiev. Indeed, in the Kharkov region in May, the Russian army managed to take much more territory than during the unsuccessful counter-offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 2023. Moreover, the Russian army recently cleared the village of Rabotino from the enemy, the capture of which by the Ukrainian Armed Forces came at the cost of great casualties and losses of NATO equipment, PolitNavigator notes.

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