Japan has declared today that the southern Kurils is their sovereign territory

Re:Japan has declared today that the southern Kurils is thei... by HidyBush on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @08:41AM (#30599733)

> Lots of countries are obviously positioning themselves to (re-)integrate some territory just in case.

Can anybody confirm this? I haven't seen any state official talking about getting Königsberg or Karelia back. Where has this positioning been hinted? I might have missed something.

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Re:Japan has declared today that the southern Kurils is thei... by inglor_cz on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @08:54AM (#30599865)

I haven't heard an official statement about Kaliningrad either, but I am acquainted with a few MEPs and their assistants, and there is some excited backroom talk about it.

The Kaliningrad exclave is a huge territorial and security headache for the EU.

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Re:Japan has declared today that the southern Kurils is thei... by TMWNN on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @03:20PM (#30606279)

Germany isn't going to take it back. It already had the chance, I believe, during the 1990s in exchange for a large sum of money but refused. Germany's eastern boundaries are formally set by treaty. Germany does not want jokes about the "return of German revanchism" and "East Prussia". More seriously, Germany would not want to absorb so many Russian speakers.

A small, Russian-speaking nation under EU's influence (and presumably future EU member) would be a good thing for the EU, to show off to the world (and specifically to Russia, as a positive example).

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