Russia Give the Most Critical Aid to Japan

Russia Give the Most Critical Aid to Japan

Throughout this crisis, this devastating event, Russia has been the leader in aid to Japan, even though, with lots of Anglo manipulation, Japan has been kept a cold war era rival to Russia.

Besides being the first to pledge aid without scope and sending the usual aid, that everyone else is sending, Russia has taken steps to make sure that in its time of absolute crisis and economic devastation, the Japanese people will have what they need most to stand up on their own feet: energy.

Sure, Russian planes, carrying rescue teams and humanitarian aid have arrived, along with that of other nations. An airborne hospital, 200 doctors and psychologists, search and rescue teams arrived in Japan, along with those of many other nations, to help save the living, what few are still in the rubble, and dig out the dead, as well as tend to the physical and emotional scars of the survivors. Even here, Russian aid was not immediately accepted, while the powers that be, in Japan, dithered and their people suffered, accepting aid first from the US, UK, Germany, Australia, South Korea and New Zealand (itself having recently survived a devastating earth quake).

But like a man, whose house is burned down, once the fire scars have healed, there is the problem of rebuilding. Sure, rebuilding one house or even a block of houses or even a town is one thing, running and rebuilding the 3rd largest economy in the world is quite a different thing indeed.

As the most technologically advanced society in the world, the Japanese are very dependent on energy, something the island is short on resources for, thus the nuclear plants. With key plants out of commission, rolling black outs, collapsing manufacturing are adding to a general suffering of the Japanese people.

The Humanitarian aid, is of course, a great concern and a great help, bur for a society, it is but the first aid, in a long struggle of recovery and for a nation such as Japan, Russia is providing it with something no other nation can or those who can will not do, for one reason on another: Russia is sacrificing from its own, energy: gas, coal and even directly, electricity.

The most immediate aid is through the underwater power cables connecting Russian and Japan, through which Russia will send 6,000 megawatts of electricity, desperately needed by Japan. Russia will also supply 200,000 tons of liquefied natural gas, more is not possible from Sakhalin, as it is already committed to Western energy companies, and unless they decide to move to charity, no more can be sent. Russia will increase coal supplies to Japan, which account for 22% of Japan's energy needs. Russia will deliver an additional 3 to 4 million tons of coal, in short order.

To underline the situation and Russia's commitment to sacrifice for its neighbor, Prime Minister Putin, the favorite target of the West, who has been compared to everyone from Hitler (the favorite bogyman of the West), to Attila the Hun, had this to say: "“Our neighbors are faced with huge grief and tragedy” and that “despite the problems we have inherited from the past it is important that Russia does everything it can to help Japan."

We can hope that the Japanese people, if not the present bunch of socialists and their fascist allies in power, will remember this most telling aid and when a sane party returns to power, after the next elections, we will be able to build upon this good will into a natural, mutually beneficent alliance.