I no understand. So Japan, after imposing sanctions on Russia wants Russia to continue peace talks with them. Or didn't I read this news well?

Read what you wrote..rubbish..all rubbish. Because I don't like arsenal doesn't mean if they score a fantastic goal,I won't clap. The west has been sanctioning Russia yagayogo, you hailed and smiled. Russia is doing theirs and all you can say is frustration and desperation. really? Did Putin cry to Nigeria for help..Guy put your mouth in Benue state or igangan or goan sleep. irrational decisions my foot..

Aufbauh:
The effects of the sanctions is really taking toll on the defiant Mr. Putin.
His desperation & frustration occasioned by the unforseen is pushing him to take irrational & conscienceless decisions. He'll soon be box into a tight corner.

He might end up winning the war in Ukraine but he can't sustain or keep the spoil of the war.

KaluwisxPRO:
Japan is cleared to decimate Russia’s Air Force and their weak Navy.

Russian ground troop is zero, that’s gonna be a big blow to Russian military if Putin miscalculate again.

I know you're not really intelligent but damn,to compare Japan millitary might with Russia is like comparing Bayern Munich to Leicester

Oddfinder:

Ypu guys really underestimate Russia...this was how Ukraine was pushed..japan wey no get Army again

Na dis kind comment make me no dey argue anyhow for this forum.

Oddfinder:

Stop this sense less ranting.
You can clearly deduce from the article the one who has a weaker military and needs the treaty more. Kindly read about the island in contention and know the powers that be..

Japanese military is not a weak one

They have the largest surface fleet after the US Nacy

Is it really smart for a weak unmilitarized country like Japan to be pushing it's luck with russia.i mean the whole country is like an earthquake and tsunami waiting to happen,it won't take much to cause another disaster for them

If you're talking about the Kuril island then it's occupied by Russia by right of military conquest and treaties dating back to the late 19th century and post wwII

KaluwisxPRO:


Are you sure you’re alright? You’re talking about an Island that belongs to Japan.

Japan a tiny country that fought with the Soviet Union, that’s not the same as Russia.

Japan has a much more advanced technology than Russia even before the War. Russia/not Soviet is big for nothing with old tech, cut and join tanks.

Being a bully does not equate strength.

FYI, Russia and Japan occupies the same Island on different parts. Japan has stood up to them by challenging their withdrawal from the treaty after joining the west to Sanction them, Russian should move forward and lay claim to all of the island for round two and their final burial.

They are prepared for it as they know the out come and the west will suffer the most as they can't do without Russia wheat and gas lol

Flets:
How many fronts can Russia really hold out on?
A lot of miscalculation so far by Russia considering they significantly looted their military budget in recent years.

What is the end game for Russia and how does he intend to achieve it cos it seems the average Russian will suffer a big deal in few months time.

America is leading so many weak minded countries astray....... Wetin concerned Japan and russian war with Ukrainian?


Na because of stupid follow follow, they want to drag themselves into war with Russia...... America no go help you, Japan pls get sense

Oddfinder:

Ypu guys really underestimate Russia...this was how Ukraine was pushed..japan wey no get Army again

Who told you Japan no get army again?

They military is even more formidable now than it was pre WW2.

Good for them

Oddfinder:

Stop this sense less ranting.
You can clearly deduce from the article the one who has a weaker military and needs the treaty more. Kindly read about the island in contention and know the powers that be..

Leave the fool,with 10mb they will not let person rest on NL

Appleyard:
Gradually, Japan is kissing the islands final goodbye. The Russians will now heavily militarised them and turn them into their backyard footrest just as they plan to nationalize the more than 500 western leased commercial planes now stranded in Russia after the west introduced sanctions.

Sanctions are a two-edged sword that hurts both sides in a brawl.

For your mind you think Japan is Ukraine right?

Putin is a Don.

Ukraine war exposes cracks in US ties to Middle East allies
The UAE and Saudi Arabia are pursuing their own interests, analysts say, as the US urges a united front against Russia’s Putin.
Media reports suggest Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has rejected calls from Biden [File: Kamran Jebreili/AP Photo]
By Ali Harb
Washington, DC – With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine dominating discussions around the world, the Biden administration has been promoting global unity against what it calls Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “war of choice”.
But despite those efforts, the conflict has highlighted cracks in some of the United States’ most prominent alliances in the Middle East, notably with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia.
The latest manifestation of this apparent rift came last week when the UAE hosted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad despite repeated warnings from Washington against normalising ties with the government in Damascus. It was al-Assad’s first visit to an Arab country since the Syrian war broke out in 2011, and it came weeks after the Syrian president expressed full support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“Al-Assad coming to the UAE, shortly after the Gulf Arab country voted to abstain from a UN Security Council resolution condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine last month, tells us that the Emiratis are very serious about asserting their autonomy from the United States,” said Giorgio Cafiero, CEO of Gulf State Analytics, a Washington, DC-based geopolitical risk consultancy.
Abu Dhabi’s abstention last month from the US-backed United Nations Security Council proposal on Ukraine was followed by anonymously-sourced media reports alleging that Saudi and Emirati leaders rebuffed calls from US President Joe Biden. And last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Saudi Arabia is in talks with China to ditch the US dollar in favour of the yuan to conduct oil transactions with Beijing.
The UAE and Saudi Arabia appear to be sending a message to the US, Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, a Middle East fellow at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, told Al Jazeera: “‘We’re going to act upon our interests and not what you think our interests are.'”
Mounting tensions
The Wall Street Journal reported this month that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman – as well as Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan – had rejected calls from Biden. But the White House dismissed that report as “inaccurate” while the US has repeatedly stressed the importance of its relationships with Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
Cafiero noted that the UAE is not walking away from its relationship with the US, as Washington remains Abu Dhabi’s “security guarantor”. He added that the UAE enjoys a “very strong position in Washington”, especially after leading a push by Arab states to normalise ties with Israel via the so-called “ Abraham Accords “.
“The leadership in Abu Dhabi is very confident that it can take steps that upset Washington, such as welcoming Bashar al-Assad to Dubai and Abu Dhabi, without having to pay a big price in terms of its relationship with the US,” Cafiero told Al Jazeera.
Washington issued rare public criticism of Abu Dhabi over al-Assad’s visit, however. US Department of State Spokesman Ned Price told the Reuters news agency on the weekend that the US was “profoundly disappointed”, calling the Syrian president’s trip an “apparent attempt to legitimise” his government.
Abu Dhabi’s push to normalise ties with al-Assad has been going on for years despite Washington’s protests. But the UAE’s main grievances with the US appear to be over Yemen, not Syria.
Missile and drone attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on the UAE and Saudi Arabia intensified in January and February – and the Wall Street Journal, in its article on the allegedly rebuffed calls, reported that the Gulf nations had concerns about what they view as a “restrained US response”.
The US sent fighter jets and a guided-missile destroyer to help bolster Emirati defences in the aftermath of the attacks, while US forces in the UAE also said they helped intercept Houthi missiles aimed at an airbase where they are stationed in the country.
But the Emirati leadership has pushed the Biden administration to designate the Houthis as a “terrorist” group, a move that rights organisations have
warned would worsen the country’s humanitarian crisis. A Saudi-led, US-backed coalition that included the UAE intervened in Yemen in 2015 to push back the rebels, who had taken over large swathes of territory, including the capital, Sanaa.
Annelle Sheline, a research fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a US think-tank, said that despite the purported frustration from the Gulf countries, the Biden administration has backed Riyadh and Abu Dhabi against the Houthis, both in rhetoric and practice.
“From my perspective, this notion that the US isn’t doing enough to support what the Saudis and Emiratis are doing in Yemen just seems somewhat absurd,” she told Al Jazeera last week. “But I know that in particular, the UAE wants the US to redesignate the Houthis as a terrorist organisation.”
Global oil supplies
Despite these contentious issues, the Biden administration has said it intends to maintain and improve ties with its Gulf partners. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki noted on March 10
that Biden spoke to Saudi Arabia’s King Salman in February and said “the president’s focus is really on our relationship moving forward”.
The Biden administration is almost entirely focused on the crisis in Ukraine, as the US and its allies have unleashed a flood of sanctions against the Russian economy, including the country’s energy sector. On March 8, Biden
announced a ban on oil and gas imports from Russia, and several European countries have pledged to decrease their dependence on Russian energy supplies. The turmoil has sent petrol prices soaring across the US and the world.
The US has been calling for increased oil production to lower prices since last year – a push that became more urgent after Russia launched its all-out invasion of Ukraine on February 24. But the OPEC+ oil cartel, which includes Russia, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, said in early March that it would stick to its current production plans, touting a “well-balanced market” experiencing “volatility” due to “current geopolitical developments”.
On March 9, Abu Dhabi’s embassy in Washington expressed support for pumping more oil, but hours later the UAE’s energy minister wrote on Twitter that the country would abide by the existing OPEC+ agreement.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Abu Dhabi on March 18 [WAM/Handout via Reuters]
Ulrichsen said the UAE and Saudi Arabia appear to be acting as though they have leverage over Biden, given the domestic political implications of rising petrol prices in the US. He added that the US president’s troubled tenure so far – marred by low approval ratings, the chaotic exit from Afghanistan and an inability to pass major legislation – could be hardening the posture of Abu Dhabi and Riyadh.
“They may sense weakness,” said Ulrichsen. “And they may think that playing hard could get them more concessions. That could be part of the calculation.”
Cafiero said Biden is trying to avoid a hostile confrontation with Gulf partners as he prioritises uniting the US’s allies against Russia.
“The US is trying to bring more Arab states against Putin, and the US is trying to cooperate with oil-producing countries such as the UAE and Saudi Arabia, as the US and other Western countries deal with the impact of the war in Ukraine on energy markets ,” he said. “Within this context, the Biden administration is not wanting a fight with either Abu Dhabi or Riyadh right now.”
Human rights
Beyond oil production and the crisis in Ukraine, the Biden administration, which pledged to put human rights at the centre of US foreign policy when it came into office in January 2021, has faced calls to pressure Saudi Arabia and the UAE to improve their rights record and end the Yemen war.
Democrats in Washington had been increasingly critical of ties with Riyadh, especially following the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.
But last Wednesday, Price, the US State Department spokesperson, declined to condemn the mass execution of 81 people in Saudi Arabia in a single day. Instead, he said repeatedly that the administration is “continuing to raise concerns about fair trial guarantees” with the kingdom.
Meanwhile, the UAE’s bin Zayed held a phone call with Putin last week. According to a Kremlin readout of the call, conveyed by Russian media , the Emirati leader “reaffirmed that Russia has a right to ensure national security”. In a separate statement, the UAE said bin Zayed told Putin his country would continue to coordinate with “concerned parties” to “help find a sustainable political solution to the ongoing crisis” in Ukraine.
Ultimately, the war in Ukraine has highlighted the fact that Washington’s Gulf allies are pursuing their own interests in a world where the US is no longer the sole superpower, said Sheline of the Quincy Institute.
“It makes rational sense for other countries to not rely so much on the US anymore,” she told Al Jazeera. “But then it’s irrational for the US to sort of unconditionally support these countries, especially when at crucial UN Security Council votes, they vote against what the US is trying to do.”
For his part, Cafiero said the US does not want to see its Gulf partners turn to Russia and China for support. “In a world that is becoming increasingly multipolar, these Gulf Arab countries have much potential to turn to other powers such as China and Russia to gain greater autonomy from the United States,” he said.
“Officials in Washington realise that trying to put too much pressure on some of these GCC [Gulf Cooperation Council] countries could result in them finding their partnerships with Beijing or Moscow to be more appealing.”

The world will fill impact of this war for years to come.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: List of key events from day 27
As the Russia-Ukraine war enters its 27th day, we take a look at the main developments.
This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows burning oil storage tanks in an industrial area in Chernihiv on Monday [AP]
These are the key events so far on Tuesday, March 22. Get the latest updates here .
Fighting
The focal point is Mariupol, a strategically important southern port that has suffered some of the heaviest bombardment since Russia invaded . Many of its 400,000 residents remain trapped as fighting rages around them.
Russian artillery continues to pound the eastern cities of Kharkiv, Sumy, and Chernihiv.
A Ukrainian news outlet is reporting air raid sirens “in almost every region” of the country.
The Pentagon says Russia is boosting air and sea military operations in Ukraine, flying more than 300 missions in the past 24 hours.
Refugees
Nearly 3.5 million people have left Ukraine while 6.5 million people have been displaced internally, the United Nations says. More than 8,000 people were evacuated on Monday.
Sanctions
The European Union cannot agree on whether or how to impose sanctions on Russia’s lucrative energy sector. Germany says the bloc is too dependent on Russian oil for that.
Diplomacy
Peace talks have resumed but there is no sign of significant progress to end the conflict.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he is ready for talks with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin “in any format”.
US-Russia ties are on the brink of collapse, Russia’s foreign ministry says, summoning the US ambassador after Biden called Putin a “war criminal”.
The UN General Assembly is expected to vote again this week on a motion criticising Russia for the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine.
Facebook, Instagram ban
A Russian court has banned Facebook and Instagram as “extremist”, part of the Kremlin’s sweeping efforts to censor news about the war.
You can read key moments from Day 26 here
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES

Aufbauh:


Let Russia try it, Japan will ground those munitions within an hour.
Putin is desperately trying to ignite a world war, but others are careful not to acede to his antics.
This is not because Russia is more powerful than the rest of the world but they know that Putin has nothing other than Nuclear power which might cause the entire world collateral damage.

This people that get there info from beer parlor
Drunk Argument are the worst set of people on this Forum, who can a grown up be so shallow minded and daft Omo people dey oo

Unacceptable? OK, why don't u invade Russia and forcefully take back the islands, puppets.

Aufbauh:
The effects of the sanctions is really taking toll on the defiant Mr. Putin.
His desperation & frustration occasioned by the unforseen is pushing him to take irrational & conscienceless decisions. He'll soon be box into a tight corner.

He might end up winning the war in Ukraine but he can't sustain or keep the spoil of the war.

You said it all

Everything is fair in war.

MangekyoAlt:
In WW2, after the Soviet union declared the war on Japan and Launched Attacks against them that forced them to surrender, they got the Kuril Island as spoils of war
Now Russia, out of generosity, allowed Japanese to continue visiting the island and even living there without visa. They even told the Japanese govt that they will give them back the island once a peace treaty has been reached.
Meanwhile, Japan were slapping consecutive rounds of sanctions on Russia, back to back to back. Russia don abandon the peace treaty now, meaning there no hope of getting the island back again and Russia has stopped the free visa to Japanese elements who want to visit the island.

Sey na who get country and manpower go protect island. Russia go lose that one join.

Kingpin1000:
You stepped on the tail of a lion and you expect him to whimper like a dog? No, he will roar angrily and the aftermath will not be good.
US bombed Japan and since then they've been colonised by US.

They are us lapdog. There government take orders from white house

shogsman:

I know you're not really intelligent but damn,to compare Japan millitary might with Russia is like comparing Bayern Munich to Leicester

Continue with your delusions. Russia has a dead military and Putin is doing everything to make Russia look as military strong like the Soviet Era.

Russia’s seat on the UN Security Council was not applied for directly by Russia, they begged to continue with that of the Soviet which was dissolved 16days before Russia asked for the seat.

same thing Putin is trying to do to look buoyant militarily, but that’s not happening with their failed invasion of Ukraine.

Almost one month, Kyiv is still standing to an unprovoked invasion.

The Ukraine War is a clear example of Russia’s dead military, recruiting kids and Syrian Terrorists. Begging China for drones, because they do not have any modern military equipment.

Targeting kids, hospitals, refugee shelters with air strike like cowards Nigeria Army

Hope he eats the islands because his actions means more harsh sanctions coming in him. This will further anger him to use his missiles and the end foe Russia is near. Internal uprising will start in Russia, he may be eliminated by close allies, the world will know peace at last.

What you didn't create and have no idea how it came about yet you're claiming rights over it to the point you're willing to kill for it.

I pity you, japanese army aren't ukarine own they are self reliant oooh, the Russians go collect woto woto from them.dem don melon no be say they no get strength ooo.

May I not be a foolish as these Japanese. They are in a peace talk with Russia, yet, dem mumu push 'em to sanction her. O Lord... what kind of stu.pidity is this? Do they think America will support or sanction Russia if she needs anything like the Japanese?

As mumu as Nigeria reach, ours never reach this level na. Chai!

Svlla:
If you're talking about the Kuril island then it's occupied by Russia by right of military conquest and treaties dating back to the late 19th century and post wwII

Olodo, I said Both Countries occupy different part of the Islands, who told you it is a single Island??

The whole Island is Japanese, Russia took a part, and Japan took some as well. Read book, you say no.

OyeofIkoTuN:
Read what you wrote..rubbish..all rubbish. Because I don't like arsenal doesn't mean if they score a fantastic goal,I won't clap. The west has been sanctioning Russia yagayogo, you hailed and smiled. Russia is doing theirs and all you can say is frustration and desperation. really? Did Putin cry to Nigeria for help..Guy put your mouth in Benue state or igangan or goan sleep. irrational decisions my foot..

Don't mind those idiots that can even elect a decent leader for themselves