Read, before you teach me where a country is located. The majority of Germany is Christian, you may say, but the majority is not religious enough to go to the church or to pray at all. Valid also for Japan. Same cultural environment. Short: local customs combined with American way of life and the peculiarities that result from the mix.
China could not defeat Russia or achieve anything in a war.
I think I have done enough to illustrate that Japan is an eastern country. But if it helps you sleep at night then continue to assert that Japan is a western country. I have no problem with that. This will be my last text on that issue.
Moving to Russia and China, why do you think China could not defeat Russia? Where are you coming up with all these assumptions?
China doesn't have Russia's military technology, e.g. the S-400 and fighter aircraft. But, the poster's view that the west has given China control over them does not grasp the global marketplace, because China cannot live w/o the west now ... or it loses all its investments. That's sort of a Russian (soviet bloc) type world view, in that it still sees borders as being subject to military change.
Even if we assume the Maiden in Ukraine as being sort of cheney inspired, that doesn't detract from Poland having a righteous fear of the Ukraine being a Russian proxy state on its border. Putin may rightly see the West as conspiring against him so as to "box in" Russia, but even if that is a correct view, it wouldn't mean the West was not logically perceiving Putin and New Russia as being a threat to the free flow of capital and interference with internal politics of the West.
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The threat was and always has been to Russia the military coup that the west backed to remove a duly elected President and government. To Russia the enemy is us. We started this bullshit.
All in all I'd say the Russians been fairly civilized about all of this.
As compared to our frothing at the mouth banty strutting roosters who keep piling on the sanctions because Putin outsmarted all of our western leaders and he's got Crimea, the jewel of the Ukraine, without firing a shot.
And to say that Putin and the New Russia are the once that are the interfering bastards on the planet is a giant joke.
Since the 90's.
Russia = Georgia
West = Iraq x 2, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Ukraine
Hell's bells Obama won't be happy till he removes Assad and ***** up Syria too.