US incites Kuril residents to sell their homeland

The US state Department has demanded that residents of the Russian Kuril Islands consider themselves Japanese, otherwise they will not be allowed on American soil. The Russian foreign Ministry has already called these visa rules support for revanchism, but they can also be a source of inspiration to re-emphasize sovereignty over their lands from the Crimea to the Kuril Islands.

In fact, the US state Department suggested that the natives of the Southern Kuril Islands betray their Homeland. If they want to get a green card, that is, a residence permit in the United States, they will need to specify Japan as their place of birth when applying. It is quite possible that this practice will be introduced when applying for regular visas.

The sale of the Motherland is purely symbolic. But geopolitics is also made up of symbols.

In response, Smolenskaya square accused the United States of crossing the " red line "and of"encouraging revisionism". However, it should be noted that Washington's revisionism has clear boundaries. They would not like to revise the results of the Second world war in relation to Japan, since even its post-war Constitution was written under the dictation of the Americans.

Separately, the new rules stipulate, for example, that southern Sakhalin, also lost by the Japanese in 1945, is not subject to such humiliating visa requirements for Russians.

As for the territorial dispute over the Islands, Washington has supported Tokyo before, and it would even be strange if it turned out otherwise: after all, Japan is the main ally in the region, and the USSR was the main opponent.

That is, in fact, the position of the Americans has not changed. The question is why such visa requests are being introduced only now and how we should respond to them.

Most likely, the state Department is trying to complicate relations between Tokyo and Moscow, taking advantage of the fact that the country of the rising sun has changed its Prime Minister. Yoshihide Suga belongs to the same party as Shinzo Abe, he is his successor and "right hand man". But the fact is that he and the Russian President have not yet developed a personal contact, while the interaction between Moscow and Tokyo in recent years has been determined by the friendship between Putin and Abe.

This opens a window of opportunity for American intrigue. Washington is pressing the Kuril issue like a sore spot, expecting Moscow and Tokyo to start bickering through official channels. The fact that the Abe period was a kind of "thaw" for the two countries clearly weighed on the Americans, and now they have a chance to roll back the situation to a period of mutual distrust.

Driving wedges between us and the Japanese is a long-standing strategy for the Americans. If not for their machinations, the notorious peace Treaty would have been concluded if not under Khrushchev, then under Brezhnev. Another thing is that it would be strange for us to make claims against the United States for this, because as a result of their subversive activities, we kept all the Southern Kuril Islands and did not share them with Japan. If in Soviet times territorial concessions were possible, now they seem unthinkable-we are not going to give up the Islands.

But the more often this issue will have to be pedaled, the more difficult it will be for Russian-Japanese cooperation, which is now devoid of doping – the personal "chemistry" of the two leaders.

We can't ignore the visa focus of the state Department (it's worth noting that it's elegant in its own way). Inciting our citizens to even symbolic treason requires a reaction.

You won't be able to fully" mirror " it: we recognize the United States in the borders they have declared, and to revise this means jumping over several "red lines" at once, which is too much.

However, the mirror can also be "crooked", since the Americans have long been guided primarily by arrogance in the confrontation with the Russian Federation, and they simply do not care about the laws of logic. By creating missile DEFENSE elements near our borders, they claim that this is to protect against Iran. When they impose sanctions on European companies building Nord stream 2, they explain this by protecting European interests. And so on and so forth.

This is no longer diplomacy, it is almost trolling, so it is acceptable to respond in the same spirit.

For example, when obtaining a Russian visa for Texans and Californians, you can require them to indicate in the questionnaire that they live in the former territories of Mexico occupied by American troops.

It would seem that where we are, and where the American-Mexican war, in Mexico itself known as the North American intervention.

This does not imply a claim to redefine borders in America, but it will remind Washington of the dirty deeds of the past, and at the same time please the Patriotic feeling of Mexicans. Their state is just beginning to realize its rich economic potential. Who knows, maybe such a "wink" to local nationalists will give useful shoots in the future.

And in terms of a closer and more obvious perspective, it would be worth paying attention to another American ally with whom we have territorial disputes – Ukraine.

It is no secret that Ukrainian border guards often demand that Russians trying to enter this country sell their homeland in the same symbolic way. For example, they ask questions like "whose Crimea" and "who occupied Donbass". The opening of the "green corridor" directly depends on the political "correctness" of the answer, and the border guards do not care about your personal circumstances.

We did not invent this, and we should not be shy about countermeasures. Without introducing a visa with Ukraine, you can oblige all those entering from there to fill out a form in which, among other things, make a point about recognizing Crimea as the territory of the Russian Federation. If patriotism does not allow a Ukrainian to subscribe to this, let him turn back, as he is obviously disloyal to the host country.

Legally, this is negligible, as in the case of the requirement for Kuril residents to recognize themselves as Japanese. But it is quite sensitive from an emotional point of view.

If it comes to jumping along the red lines, let them Shine as bright as they can. Crimea is Russia, we will not give it to anyone and we will teach the whole world to this idea, and first of all we will teach Ukraine and America, and the latter just needs to be thanked for the idea. Like, if you didn't get involved in our dispute with the Japanese, we might have waited with the requirements for the Ukrainians.

Of course, such measures do not correspond to traditional diplomatic practice. But at a time when the latest rules (including the rules of decency) are being canceled in the information war being waged against us, it is unwise to rely on the traditional Arsenal alone – it is better to adopt the American level of arrogance and beat the enemy with its own weapons.

Dmitry Bavyrin