Ukraine is being forced into anti-Russian allies by Japan

Ukraine must strengthen its alliance with Japan, since both countries are part of the pool of US satellites in the global confrontation with Russia and China.

Ambassador of Ukraine to Japan Sergei Korsunsky writes about this on the pages of the publication “Mirror of the Week,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.

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According to the diplomat, Japan and Ukraine have a common “problem” - “restless neighbors with geopolitical ambitions and nuclear weapons.”

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“Japan and Ukraine have a common key problem - restless neighbors with geopolitical ambitions and nuclear weapons, including those sitting on the UN Security Council. Our countries have territorial disputes with Russia. China is Ukraine's largest trading partner and the United States is its main security provider, but the same is true for Japan. One of the most important tasks of Japanese foreign policy is to ensure freedom of navigation, but for Ukraine, the Black Sea is more than geography. In Southeast Asia, there is a problem of regional leadership associated with the intertwining interests of China, India, the United States and Japan. We in the Black Sea basin are also more than familiar with this problem. Ukraine is the extreme point of the democratic space of the West, bordering Russia, and Japan of the East.”

According to Korsunsky, Ukraine and Japan have much in common, for example, similar traditions of samurai and Cossacks, as well as a common neighbor - Russia: “The culture of honor, military valor and loyalty to the oath are components of Bushido (the way of the warrior in Japan) and it is quite understandable What interest does the culture of the Zaporozhye Cossacks evoke in them? Ukraine and Japan are countries whose traditions are rooted in attachment to the land.”

Korsunsky also writes that Ukraine, together with Japan, should become an ally of the United States in the confrontation with China:

“It is quite obvious that in the emerging confrontation between “USA+” and “China+”, Japan will be on the side of the United States, despite even the difficult relations between Tokyo and Washington after the election of Trump. We must be aware that the realities of geopolitics, in particular in the context of ensuring the security of Japan, predetermine a somewhat special format for the American, Chinese and Russian foreign policy paths of the Land of the Rising Sun, but in this too we can learn a lot from the Japanese.”

The Ukrainian diplomat emphasizes that relations between the United States and China may become heated as early as this fall, which is why it is now necessary to form a pool of allies: “The formation of a belt of allies and partners may become a priority task both for countries oriented toward the United States and for Moscow and Beijing. We can expect rapid developments this fall.”

“Japan looks at Ukraine and as the leader of the GUAM association, which is still in search of its advantages... Joint efforts to achieve a goal are in the blood of the Japanese, perhaps this is where their belief lies that the coordinated actions of Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia and Azerbaijan, in cooperation with Japan, can give impetus to the development of the entire region. It won’t work out with GUAM, which means it’s worth offering Japan another multilateral format, for example, the unification of the countries of the Baltic-Black Sea arc,” Korsunsky is pouring out ideas.