>In Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that "Japan's leadership is attempting to accelerate militarization," with reference to increased defense spending under the Sanae Takaichi administration. Amid escalating Japan-China tensions, he expressed Russia's firm support for China's position on the Taiwan issue, inferred that Russia would provide China with military assistance in bringing Taiwan back under China's control, and made veiled threats about the consequences of Japan interfering.>This appears to refer to Prime Minister Takaichi's parliamentary response regarding a Taiwan contingency potentially constituting a "survival-threatening situation," the Japanese government's proposal of a record-high defense budget for fiscal 2026, and considerations to revise the three non-nuclear principles. Lavrov pointed out that the "acceleration of militarization" under the Takaichi administration "will clearly have a negative impact on regional stability."Source:https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/c5993ae64bfc1aa80ba17f8036e6546ea4030addI am under no delusion that Russia's much-diminished military could provide any meaningful aid to a Chinese marine invasion of Taiwan. Nor am I deluded enough to believe that this is anything more than lip service from Russia to China--probably directly requested by China--in relation to China's crashout over the Japanese PM stating that Japan would defend Taiwan from invasion as a matter of national self-preservation. However, I hope that statements like these from Russia convince Japanese that they have skin in the game, that it is better to kill Russians in Ukraine than in Hokkaido, and that Japan should start sending real military aid to Ukraine.
>>64687626Could Japan alone bottle-up the Russian Pacific Fleet?
>>64687642A country without a Navy has sunk a third of Russia's black sea fleet. This isn't even a question.
>>64687642i'd love to see in what state languishes the pacific fleet. if the black sea and north sea fleet are a bunch of undermanned rustbuckets good only for target practice, the state of the ships docked at vladivostok leave much, much to be desired.
>>64687647Does Japan have anti-ship missiles?>>64687654Are there even any dry-docks in the Russian Far East?
>>64687626>Russia will help China invade TaiwanOh god, the Chinese are doomed.
>>64687642Only threat Russian fleet possess are submarines. Most vessels are old and lacked maintanance for decades, you can see it with Moscow flagship of Black Sea navy that was barely operational. Russian surface fleet is a joke even in soviet times it was first place to cut funds. This is also why first ever hard kill APS was developed for Soviet Marines, because they had no money to switch T-55(steel armor) to T-72(composite armor), so hardkill APS was band aid solution so marines tanks won't get blown up by any retard with at weapon.Submarine fleet on other hand got multiple upgrades and is more or less well maintained(for russian fleet that is).Subs are great for sinking other ships but not much else. They can preform limited missile strike but that's it. And of course there are balistic subs.
>>64687671>day 602 of the 3-day taiwan rebellion suppression operation>a russian ballistic missile putters out during boost phase, falls on a city block in coastal china killing 10000>chinese officials claim zero casualties
