On October 12, local time, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs raised a strong protest to the Japanese Embassy in Russia because the Japanese Self-Defense Force conducted a joint military exercise with the United States at the Hokkaido training ground near Russia on October 1

In recent days, the world's attention has been attracted by the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, but East Asia is actually quite turbulent.

On October 12th local time, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs raised a strong protest to the Japanese Embassy in Russia because Japan Self-Defense Force conducted a joint military exercise with the United States on October 10th at the Hokkaido training ground near Russia, and even tested the "Haimas" multi-rocket launcher system .

In fact, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s dissatisfaction lies in these two points.

1: When the Hokkaido training ground was just established, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs promised that the place would not conduct tests of the long-range multi-barrel rocket launcher system, but now, the side obviously broke its promise .

The second is that is allowed to enter the shooting range Why do Japanese media "provoke trouble"? In these Japanese media reports, all of them linked the joint test of the United States and Japan " Himas " with the so-called "Russian army invasion of Ukraine".

Is it because Tokyo is supporting Ukraine, and both the United States and Japan plan to "participate" in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, and even is willing to open up a "second battlefield" in the Russian Far East region?

In view of this, the Russian Foreign Ministry's measures are very strict, bluntly saying that this military exercise is a "challenge" to the security of the Russian Far East. Russia "stands on demanding to stop immediately." Moscow has also warned Tokyo "Russia will take reciprocal counterattack measures to eliminate military threats" .

Of course, as Russian President Putin said: "Protesting thousands of times and ten thousand times is not as good as bombers' wings flapping once."

So on October 13, the news center of the Eastern Russian Military Region issued a message saying that the "battalion" shore-based missile group of Pacific Fleet carried out an air-land border defense drill on Matua Island, the Kuril Islands, and quickly discovered and destroyed the "important enemy."

This exercise has 3 key points.

First, the Russian side characterizes the exercise as "water and land border defense drill" . Who is the Russian army's defense target? Of course, the United States and Japan are holding joint military exercises. Russia puts itself on the defensive side, and it is natural to blame it, which is also to show that the United States and Japan are the "black hands" responsible for the heating up of the East Asian situation.

Second, is Russia really afraid of "Haimas"? It is true that this rocket launcher system may have caused some trouble to the Russian army on the Ukrainian battlefield, but it is far more than just as magical as it is uploaded on the Internet.

Look at the "Battle" used by the Russian army in this exercise. Its range is far higher than that of "Haimas". The latter can only launch the missile with a range of 300 kilometers, but the "Battle" can launch the "Onice" supersonic missile with a range of 600 kilometers. It is one of the "Ace Weapons" in the hands of the Russian army.

Don't forget that the "Battle" was deployed on Matua Island in December 2021 and began to fight on duty. This is the targeted measure taken by the Russian side to The United States to use Japan as its " Indo-Pacific Strategy Bridgehead" .

3, , , Russia chose to conduct exercises in , Kuril Islands , of course, to strengthen the deterrence of the Russian army in , Russia-Japan disputed territory " South Kuril Islands (called the 'Northern Four Islands')" . After all, the training ground where the US-Japan joint military exercise is located is located in Hokkaido, which is close to the disputed territory of Russia and Japan.

Interestingly, this joint military exercise was characterized as an "off-island defense war". Japan did not hide its ambition to retake the "Four Northern Islands", while the United States continued to incite the situation and provoke the confrontation between Russia and Japan.

Because of this, Russia must make a tough oath on the sovereignty of the entire island of the South Thousand Islands , and it must also make the United States and Japan understand that when Russia launches a "special military operation", it is believed that putting the Russian army into "dual-line combat" can drag down Russia's plot without the opportunity to be implemented and will not succeed.

However, in order to disrupt the situation in East Asia, the geopolitical "center of gravity" of the Asia-Pacific region, and to achieve the purpose of serving its Indo-Pacific strategy, the United States is not only the means to intensify the Russian-Japanese territorial dispute.

Pay attention to the following two information.

1, the Ukrainian Embassy in Japan announced on the 13th that a delegation composed of five members of the Ukrainian Supreme Parliament will visit Japan on the 15th of this month.

It is obvious that under the matchmaking of Washington, the relationship between Ukraine and Japan is gradually getting closer.

Some time ago, Japanese Prime Minister Kisha Fumio Kishida and Ukrainian President Zelensky talked on the phone, and Japan promised to increase sanctions against Russia and aid to Ukraine. Soon, Kiev "repaying for his kindness", admitted that "the Southern Kuril Islands are Japanese territory occupied by Russia" .

This time, Ukrainian parliamentarians formed a group to visit Japan. Although there was more or less a "show" element, they would definitely talk to the Japanese side about seeking reconstruction funds. In short, this connection is something the US side is happy to see, and it is also conducive to tie Japan to the G7's "anti-Russian chariot".

2. The South Korean Joint Staff Headquarters revealed on the 13th that when the South Korean-US joint missile fire drill participated in the South Korean-US joint missile shooting exercise on October 5, it launched two ground-to-ground missiles - the Army tactical ballistic missile (ATACMS), but one of them was lost during flight.

Of course, the "missile loss" is not new to the South Korean army. The "Xuanwu-2C" ballistic missile it launched on October 4 deviated from its pre-determined orbit and fell into its own air force base only 700 meters away from the residential area. It also caused an explosion and fire at that time.

frequently launches missiles mainly to deal with the increasingly tense situation on the peninsula, and The United States is precisely the culprit that intensifies this round of peninsula tensions. There is no doubt that if the situation on the peninsula deteriorates, Russia will inevitably be implicated, which is also Washington's calculation.

Various signs show that the situation is not optimistic for Russia. The United States’ "small moves" outside Ukraine are emerging one after another. This method of stirring up the situation in various places to serve the US’s hegemony. We must be vigilant.