A move by Japan to provide Patriot air defence systems to Ukraine will have “grave consequences” for Russia-Japan ties, Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday.

Relations between Moscow and Tokyo, already difficult, have deteriorated sharply since Russia sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine in Feb. 2022. Japan has joined its Western allies in imposing sweeping economic sanctions on Russia.

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.

  • avater@lemmy.worldEnglish
    641·
    1 year ago

    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?

  • Rapidcreek@lemmy.worldEnglish
    502·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • magnetosphere@kbin.social
    48·
    1 year ago

    When an asshole country “warns” against doing a thing, it can usually be taken as an additional reason to do that thing.

    • aeronmelon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      161·
      1 year ago

      You could say that.

      Technically, World War II is still going because Japan and Russia never formally ended hostilities between each other.

      • DarkThoughts@kbin.social
        141·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • aeronmelon@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          1 year ago

          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.

    • kent_ehEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      “That one” border dispute that’s been going on for centuries.

  • JJROKCZ@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    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

    • The Snark Urge@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • intelshillEnglish
    61·
    1 year ago

    Why doesn’t the US have enough Patriots themselves?

    • PsychedSy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I mean Japan doesn’t really have to worry about being attacked. The US will do the work if Japan gets attacked.

  • xep@kbin.social
    4·
    1 year ago

    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!