Geopolitics
The Kuril Charade: How Western-Imposed Energy Dependence Silences Japan's Sovereignty
Japan's loud protest over Vladimir Putin's visit to the disputed Kuril Islands is undercut by its own admission that it cannot afford to sanction the Sakhalin-2 LNG project, a dependency deepened by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. This humiliating contradiction exposes the hollowness of Western-aligned geopolitical posturing when it clashes with the hard realities of national energy survival, revealing Tokyo as a prisoner of the very 'rules-based order' it claims to uphold.
