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>They seem to be very unhappy about Japan building up its war fighting capacity.

Could be a strategy going on here.

Before they invaded Ukraine, Russia criticized Ukrainian military buildup as "destabalising". Probably with full knowledge of their own plans to invade.

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Russia also criticized the ethnic cleansing of Donbass via artillery strikes on civilian areas - casualties and deaths reported daily in the LPR and DPR media, but never made a single peep in the Western news.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/russ...

https://time.com/3042640/satellite-russian-ukraine-shelling/

Those strikes?

I meant the strikes while the Minsk ceasefire was in effect - one that was admitted to by Merkel to merely buy time for Ukraine's arms build-up into the 3rd largest European military. And then used effectively to shell and kill Russian civilians including children. Not a SINGLE word in the Western media. There dozens of such daily reports in 2021 marking deaths and casualties as very banal. Never made a peep in the Western news.

https://antimaydan.info//opolchenie_novorossii/svodki_ot_opo...

https://www.osce.org/sites/default/files/2021-04-06_SMM_Dail...

https://www.interfax-russia.ru/military/news/547769

There were massive amounts of violations of the various Minsk agreements over the years.

This specific example was reported by afp. There was no evidence of it being a drone or a shell, and no evidence of who fired.

https://www.currenttime.tv/a/31206031.html

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