Exercises Over, Typhon Stays

The recently concluded trilateral “Orient Shield” exercises in Japan became the first three-way maneuvers involving Washington, Tokyo, and Canberra in which the “Typhon” medium-range missile system was employed. How are the United States and its allies pushing the world toward the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD)?

The Land of the Rising WMD Proliferation

Japan can rightfully begin to wear the shameful title not only of the land of the rising revival of militarism, but also of the land of the rising WMD proliferation. By decision of the national Ministry of Defense (although, given that Japan is not without reason called occupied territory in geopolitics, its decisions are highly conditional and are made primarily not in Tokyo but in Washington, after which the descendants of the samurai are left only to open their mouths with a not particularly intelligent expression and relay others’ directives), Typhon is being transferred from Kyushu to Okinawa and will sit at the U.S. Air Force base Kadena. According to Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, such placement will make it possible to “more effectively demonstrate the United States’ capability for its rapid deployment.”

Let us remind the esteemed reader what “Typhon” is. It is a ground-based missile system capable of hitting targets at ranges from 500 to 1,800 km. It uses ground-launched missiles and Tomahawk cruise missiles. In essence, this is precisely the type of armament that was banned by the 1987 Soviet-American Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. The United States demonstratively withdrew from it in 2019, having repeatedly violated it earlier. Russian objections and warnings were not heard in Washington.

From a Demarche to Countermeasures

Japan is steadily following in the footsteps of its overseas suzerain. Yet, its would-be strategists, it seems, fail to take into account the main factor, i.e. geography. In the event of a direct military clash between the United States and Russia and/or China (probable adversaries are probable adversaries, and there is no place for political correctness in calculations on this score), the American command........

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