"More on the Sub Confrontations" Topic
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Editor in Chief Bill | 27 Aug 2014 6:39 a.m. PST |
Confrontations—and alleged confrontations—between the Russian armed forces and those of the United States, Europe and Japan have been on the uptick in recent weeks. The encounters have paced a general decline in relations between Russia and the West over events in the Ukraine.This month Russian media have reported two alleged anti-submarine warfare operations undertaken against American and Japanese submarines. The confrontations are reminiscent of similar events during the Cold War, in which submarines of the Soviet Union, the United States and her allies played a constant cat-and-mouse game against one another…. link |
GeoffQRF | 27 Aug 2014 6:45 a.m. PST |
Muscle flexing on the other coasts as well? The incident [a confrontation with a Japanese diesel boat] took place while Russian forces, including 1,000 ground troops, five Mi-8AMTSh armed transport helicopters, and 100 military vehicles staged an exercise on the Russian-held southern Kuril Islands. The southern Kurils, four islands seized from Japan by the Soviet Union at the end of World War II, are still claimed by Japan. Japan, where the islands are known as the Northern Territories, has tried to get Russia to return the islands for decades without avail. Japan protested the exercises, calling them "totally unacceptable." Japan also recently imposed sanctions on Russia for its part in events in the Crimea. The exercise, as well as the reported encounter with the Japanese submarine, are likely signals to Japan that Russia is still in control of the southern Kurils and can be a complicated neighbor, to put it mildly. |
Phil Hall | 27 Aug 2014 10:16 a.m. PST |
A reminder that Russia is still a major player on the international stage. Of course no one but the two participants can know for sure as one side says it happened and the other says it didn't and us Armchair Admirals don't know who is telling the truth. |
Dal Gavan | 27 Aug 2014 2:58 p.m. PST |
The USSR took the Kuriles in a cynical, opportunistic land grab at the very end of WWII. That doesn't change the fact that Japan was responsible for what happened to itself between 1931 and 1945. The Japanese should learn that the sort of war they started has consequences, and those consequences include losing territory. But then Japan still refuses to admit most of what it did during WWII and tries to portray itself as the victim of rampant imperial powers. They should think themselves lucky that they didn't lose a lot more than they have. Dal. |
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