Sometimes good Homer fell asleep: imagine if they can not take the colossal blunders, perhaps the result of heatstroke, of Italian journalists in these last days red-hot summer. Therefore, it is important to read an article online1 and to be amazed that the author, perhaps taken by the legitimate love affair for the Russian president2, declare, as if nothing had happened, that the Kremlin has already given the order to "start work on the construction of a bridge to connect the Russian mainland to the island of Sakhalin", calling it "a move with considerable political implications because ", as he rightly points out," Sakhalin and the Kurili islands were occupied by the Red Army in the last days of the Second World War and are still claimed by Japan ". He then goes on to say that "the bridge to Sakhalin is essential (Editor's note, to the Kremlin) not only to reiterate that the island belongs to Russia but above all to then move on to the construction of the rail link between Sakhalin and Hokkaido which, in turn, is already connected "to the heart of Japan. And here, the boutade is handed out to me, the donkey falls: why should Tokyo, besides bowing and courtesy every time that the work has been proposed in the last twenty years, always by the Russians, should accept it? Beyond the questionable commercial effects3, the bridge (or the tunnel, as indicated in some projects) would entail the political recognition of the Soviet occupation of the Kuril Islands, a wound still open today in the civil and political consciousness of the Nipponis and a shame for the former Soviet nation second only to Katin.
Who knows the nation of the Rising Sun knows how long and deep the historical memory of this people and its ruling class: in the words of the "Jewel Voice Broadcast", that is the first speech to the country of Emperor Hirohito, the echo still resounded of the humiliation suffered by Japan following the conclusion of the Shimonoseki Treaty (1895), when the triple alliance of France, Germany and Russia forced the Japanese winners to renounce the best of the conquests of the First Sino-Japanese War (the Liaodong Peninsula) and Port Arthur). The humiliation suffered was the basis of a real "Wrath of God" unleashed by Tokyo against these three countries: the Russo-Japanese war (1905-1906), the First World War (1914-18) and the occupation Japanese Indochina (1940) were nothing but three steps of revenge against, respectively, Russia, Germany and France. For the same unwillingness to bow to violence perceived as unjust, Japan has denied the honor of a peace treaty before the Soviet Union and then the Russian Federation: the Japanese have admitted their faults to everyone, except that the great Slavic nation to which ... they had not even declared war during the Second World War!
That said, the writer seems to be ridiculous to say nothing as fed from the newspaper to the online reader, now perhaps convinced that in a few years will be able to go by train from Milan to Tokyo. But it goes without saying that, probably, the author pressed, rather than talk about a bridge of paper, to pass the idea, very fashionable today, that Vladimir Putin's Russia is a great strategic market and an open and friendly country , unlike those who for nearly half a century defended Germany, Italy and Japan, not so much through NATO, as opposing the physical presence of its military personnel to a possible Soviet offensive, with the presence of US Navy and US Air bases Force. Already, today it is only the United States and the organization of the Atlantic Pact to be aggressive: it says the Internet, there is to believe it!
PS Dear Director, I already know that for the present article I will take at least the "Piddino", the "russofobo" and the "Soros accomplice", I who never voted the center, I have always loved the history and the Russian literature and I'm even on the side of Orban. But anyhow, I have the vices to cheat on trolls.
1 http://www.occhidellaguerra.it/ponti-russia/
2 A poor victim "of the overthrow of the legitimate government of Ukraine and ... of NATO's aggressive presence", as well as of the aims to "divide the countries and break the continents".
3 The article states that "if the different works were finally realized, Japan would become a continental state and its goods would have an enormously facilitated access to a market like the Russian one, with 145 millions of potential consumers, and then also to the European one ... a scenario capable of giving back to Russia the role of a great bridge ", except neglecting the consequence, not trivial, that Moscow would be the only intermediary in Tokyo for its economic relations with Eurasia, which is very convenient to Russia, very little Japan.
