Today is Victory Over Japan Day in Russia. For that occasion, Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council Dmitry Medvedev was in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, on Sakhalin Island in Russia’s Far East, where he delivered a speech taking aim at Japanese militarism. “It is regrettable that the Japanese authorities are pursuing a course towards a new militarization of the country. They have become the heirs of the Japan that once faced an inglorious end,” he said, reported TASS.
Medvedev noted that with the support of American curators, Japan is actively expanding its military infrastructure, buying foreign weapons, including offensive ones. Earlier restrictions on Tokyo’s so-called Self-Defense Forces and military operations abroad are being lifted, military exercises are taking place near the Kuril Islands, which seriously complicates the situation in the Asia-Pacific region. “Japan must learn from history, the memorable date we are celebrating today, and fully recognize the results of World War II, and do everything to prevent the third one from flaring up. [It should] give up militaristic plans for the benefit of its own people,” Medvedev said.
Medvedev also argued that the U.S. use of the nuclear weapons against Japan in 1945 without the military need revealed the true face of the United States (certainly the true face of Harry Truman—ed.). “In August 1945, the U.S. troops dropped nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It is known that there was no military sense to do that. The U.S. just wanted to demonstrate its imperial ambitions and brutal force,” he said. “The U.S. is also ready to act now exactly in the same way, when they are waging hybrid wars by hands of their dependents on all continents of the world, including in Ukraine,” said Medvedev, who is also a former President of the Russian Federation.
