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babylonsister

(171,070 posts) Sat Dec 22, 2018, 07:23 PM Dec 2018

Putin says U.S. presence in Japan complicates signing of peace treaty

Has dt let the hammer fall on Japan yet?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-putin-japan-dispute/putin-says-u-s-presence-in-japan-complicates-signing-of-peace-treaty-idUSKCN1OJ17X?fbclid=IwAR03o9G9wIQp7QCwYD0KgbFVSPwm4SqdJmVftdUbgrxMA8pAxyKsp8v-yeM

December 20, 2018 / 5:56 AM / 3 days ago
Putin says U.S. presence in Japan complicates signing of peace treaty

MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the United States’ military presence in Japan was complicating the search for a formal peace treaty between Moscow and Tokyo.

Russia and Japan have been in dispute for seven decades over island territories captured by Soviet troops in the last days of World War Two. As a result, they have still not formally ended hostilities.

Putin told reporters at his annual news conference that Moscow was concerned by the deployment of a U.S. air defense system in Japan.

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Putin says U.S. presence in Japan complicates signing of peace treaty (Original Post) babylonsister Dec 2018 OP

So we can expect Trump will pull all US troops and bases out of Japan any day? Autumn Dec 2018 #1

Yep. Iliyah Dec 2018 #2

Any day? More like any hour. When Putin says jump, Trump barks and jumps. TheBlackAdder Dec 2018 #3

trump is the most dangerous thing on earth. bar none. spanone Dec 2018 #4

Any way Congress can take trump's foreign policy power? Mystery sage Dec 2018 #5

Well, at least we're finally getting to the verb. Iterate Dec 2018 #6

bootlicker trump duforsure Dec 2018 #7

Oh, shit Leith Dec 2018 #8

Putin's puppet (the Cowardly Don) may try to blackmail Japan Hermit-The-Prog Dec 2018 #9

Autumn

(45,107 posts)

1. So we can expect Trump will pull all US troops and bases out of Japan any day?

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Sat Dec 22, 2018, 07:26 PM

Dec 2018

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)

2. Yep.

Reply to Autumn (Reply #1)

Sat Dec 22, 2018, 07:27 PM

Dec 2018

TheBlackAdder

(28,209 posts)

3. Any day? More like any hour. When Putin says jump, Trump barks and jumps.

Reply to Autumn (Reply #1)

Sat Dec 22, 2018, 07:27 PM

Dec 2018

spanone

(135,844 posts)

4. trump is the most dangerous thing on earth. bar none.

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Sat Dec 22, 2018, 07:27 PM

Dec 2018

Mystery sage

(576 posts)

5. Any way Congress can take trump's foreign policy power?

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Sat Dec 22, 2018, 07:30 PM

Dec 2018

Iterate

(3,020 posts)

6. Well, at least we're finally getting to the verb.

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Sat Dec 22, 2018, 07:35 PM

Dec 2018

Remember this one, later disavowed despite the credibility given at the time?

From October 20, 2014:

Polish ex-minister quoted saying Putin offered to divide Ukraine with Poland

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-poland-sikorski/polish-ex-minister-quoted-saying-putin-offered-to-divide-ukraine-with-poland-idUSKCN0I92A720141020

duforsure

(11,885 posts)

7. bootlicker trump

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Sat Dec 22, 2018, 07:41 PM

Dec 2018

Will announce he's pulling out of Japan soon to please putin, and again show the world how compromised he really is to him.

Leith

(7,809 posts)

8. Oh, shit

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Sat Dec 22, 2018, 07:52 PM

Dec 2018

Putin has his eye on Hokkaido.

After WW II, even though the USSR had no part in the war in the Pacific, they wanted to partition Japan with the soviets taking the northern island of Hokkaido. Take a look at the Sea of Okhotsk and imagine the world's largest naval base there. The only problem is that Japan and the US can see quite a bit of what's going on from Hokkaido.

Truman told Stalin to take a hike. The US was going to take care of Japan. ALL of it. Now it looks like pootie-poot hasn't forgotten that old plan.

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,349 posts)

9. Putin's puppet (the Cowardly Don) may try to blackmail Japan

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Sat Dec 22, 2018, 09:26 PM

Dec 2018

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