'Unthinkable' Russia would lose in Ukraine conflict - ex-Japanese PM

RT
Wed, 25 Jan 2023 19:14 UTC

It is "almost unthinkable" that Russia would lose in the Ukraine conflict, former Japanese prime minister Yoshiro Mori has said, questioning the US-led drive to support Kiev, which Tokyo has joined.

"Is it fine to put so much effort into Ukraine?" the former official asked, as quoted by Japanese media. "It's almost unthinkable that Russia will lose," he added, during a meeting of the Japan-India Association in Tokyo on Wednesday.

The 85-year-old politician explained he didn't understand why Tokyo was willing to damage its relationship with Moscow after "we have come this far." Russia and Japan have an unresolved territorial dispute and are technically still at war with each other.

Mori served as the head of the Japanese government for just over a year between 2000 and 2001, with his term mired by unfriendly media coverage of his gaffes. After resigning, he was picked to lead the organization body of the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Despite criticism at home, Mori fostered good rapport with the Russian government, partially thanks to a family connection. His father, who served as mayor in a small Japanese town, had a passion for preserving the tombs of Japanese soldiers in the Soviet Union. He found lifelong friends who had similar respect for the war dead on the other side of the border, and even asked that part of his ashes be buried in Russia.

The younger Mori reportedly had good chemistry with Russian President Vladimir Putin and was even tipped by the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to lay the groundwork for his 2017 state visit to Russia.

In November, Mori lashed out at Japanese media for what he believes to be one-sided coverage of the Ukraine conflict, relying solely on US and European sources. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky was not subjected to any criticism, he observed, even though he "has made many Ukrainian people suffer."

Incumbent Prime Minister Fumio Kishida criticized Russia on Monday during a keynote speech to the Japanese parliament. While he stated that his government would maintain "its policy of resolving the territorial issue" regarding the disputed Kuril Islands, he also accused Moscow of "shaking the foundations of international order" by launching the military operation in Ukraine. Kishida pledged his government's continued support for Kiev by sanctioning Russia.

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VooDoo6 · 2023-01-26T15:41:33Z

“It is "almost unthinkable" that Russia would lose in the Ukraine conflict, former Japanese prime minister Yoshiro Mori has said, questioning the US-led drive to support Kiev, which Tokyo has joined.”

If Putin loses it’s by design. If a Nazi NATO satanic principled core can bankrupt Russia it wasn’t by accident. The recent Zionazilensky internal cabinet shakeup was just a rebranding of the same old same old. Change their presence, footprint, wordsmithing & approach. ~~Underneath the masks they wear as chameleons & decepticons.~~

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· 2023-01-26T16:29:23Z

Lemuel Gulliver · 2023-01-26T16:34:03Z

VooDoo6 It is very unlikely that the ZioNazi Western financial cabal will bankrupt Russia. The Western financial system is tottering, like the World Trade center on 9/11, and is going to collapse suddenly and spectacularly, as those buildings did.

As Yoshiro Mori said, it is "unthinkable" that Ukraine can defeat Russia in any way, shape or form. The very idea is ridiculous. Hitler invaded Russia in 1941 with 7.5 million troops, and a vast military machine, and the end result was the red hammer and sickle flag flying over the Reichstag in Berlin. We have all seen the iconic photo.

Russia's economy is doing quite well, thank you. And its war economy has not even been shifted into middle gear, much less high gear. As Putin said, and he means what he says, (unlike Western blathering politicians,) "We have not even begun" to fight.

Russia has kissed its stolen reserves in Western central banks goodbye, (it is one of the signal Russian character traits to never agonize over past setbacks and defeats, but to always press forward, as proven many times in WWII and as demonstrated again in the present conflict,) and Russia is busy building up its gold reserves in anticipation of the demise of the dollar and the return to gold-backed reserve currencies. China is doing the same.

Putin will not "lose." His term is up next year, 2024, and he may or may not decide to remain in power, but if he does decide to take a break after 24 years and step down, the person who replaces him may be even more intransigent and forceful. The West and its Zionist controllers are very short-sighted, always wishing for certain changes and never considering what comes next. They wanted to get rid of Saddam Hussein and break up Iraq, and only after the Zionists got the USA to do that for them did they consider the result: that this left Shiite Iran free to develop and prosper without the counter-force of Sunni Iraq. Now they are weeping bitter tears over the consequences of the fulfillment of their wishes.

In the same way, they desperately want to get rid of Putin, who stands between them and the plundering of Russia's $300 trillion in natural resources, which they were successfully doing in the 1990s after the Soviet Union collapsed, but they have not pondered who would replace Putin. His likely replacement is Nikolai Patrushev, far more tough and ruthless than Putin, who is at heart a real softy. When and if they have to deal with Patrushev, they will wish they had Putin back again, but it will be too late.

Remember you read this. Investigate the ideas for yourself, and you will see clearly what is coming down the pike.

VooDoo6 · 2023-01-26T17:12:49Z

Lemuel Gulliver We agree. I don’t dispute any of what you wrote. As I wrote, if he does lose it’s by design not organic.