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Indigenous community haunted by U.S., Canadian military presence in Japan

The presence of U.S. military bases on the Japanese island of Okinawa, regularly used by Canadian Armed Forces members, is coming under criticism from locals who are Indigenous to those lands.

American bases occupy around eight per cent of the prefecture and nearly 15 per cent of the main island, causing indignation among locals like Zukeran, a former mayor of the city of Nanjō, and a past member of the Japanese House of Representatives.

He is calling on the Canadian and U.S. militaries to have a conversation about their concerns.

“Before WWII in 1945, there were no military bases in Okinawa so I would like to see Okinawa without military bases; how would that be?”

“Some people say the presence of U.S. or any kinds of military bases in Okinawa is protecting Okinawa but we don’t think so. The presence of military bases in our island makes us a target,” Okinawa International University economics professor Masaki Tomochi said.

Tomochi believes Canada needs to be part of a dialogue about the impact of the bases on locals. He points to chemical contamination, noise pollution and crimes committed by U.S. servicemen.

“We want our peaceful island back,” Tomochi said, adding, “I want Canada not to invade our rights.”

Johannesburg — In a rare acknowledgment, Russia's private mercenary army PMC Wagner said Monday that it had suffered heavy losses in fighting against a Tuareg rebel alliance in the northern part of the African nation of Mali. The state-funded "private military company" did not say how many of its fighters were killed in a days-long battle near Mali's border with Algeria, but videos circulating on social media showed dozens of bodies, mostly appearing to be white men.

 

Russia's state-run news agency TASS reported Monday that only three of the Russian fighters were believed to have survived the battle, and their commander Sergey Shevchenko was among those killed in action.

The Malian army and Wagner fighters are believed to have been conducting operations for several months in a bid to gain control over the country's border with Algeria. The Taureg militias remain in control of parts of the border region, but militants affiliated with the JNIM organization, an alliance of al-Qaeda aligned groups, also operate there.

Videos posted on social media show the bodies of men, most of them white, lying in sand with Tuareg rebels talking and looting personal effects in the background, as well as destroyed vehicles and a downed helicopter.

 

The Tuareg rebel alliance in the area — known as the Permanent Strategic Framework for Peace, Security and Development (CSP-DSA) — said in a Saturday statement that it had seized armoured vehicles and tanks in the fighting at Tinzaouaten Thursday and Friday.

Spokesman Mohamed Elmaouloud Ramadane said in a Facebook post that after two days of intense fighting, the CSP-DSA had "inflicted heavy losses of human life with dozens of dead and injured," with forces still "chasing down enemy troops on the road" to nearby Kedal.
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Russian mercenaries have acting as guns for hire on the African continent since 2017, when they were first brought in to work in the Central African Republic.

Images and video posted to social media accounts run by the Tuaregs, Wagner and other local militias indicated that a convoy of Malian army and allied Wagner forces may have been ambushed by Tuareg rebels who used an IED to stop the group followed, by an intense small-arms assault. A sandstorm appears to have added to the chaos of the battle.

Reports suggest the retreating government and Wagner forces were then attacked again and suffered further losses.

Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have all had military coups over the last few years and turned to Russian mercenaries to bolster their own forces after kicking out French troops.

Woke comments:

A Russian mercenary that is no longer breathing is a good mercenary.

If Mali was willing to share power (and resources) with the Tuaregs, then they wouldn't have to pay all that money to the Russians.

Woke comments:

it's known to all that Japan 🇯🇵 is an American colony . Since the end of world war ll and the presence of American troops on Japanese soil .

The Plazza Accords ruined Japan's economy with consequences felt for decades, just because US industry felt threatened by Japanese competition. 30 years of stagnation were the price paid for being a vassal state of Aemrica. In some way, the US destroyed Japan twice, in the 40's and the 80's, and will not hesitate to sacrifice it a third time.

The most incredible thing about the above video is that False Leftist TheKavernacle can provide so much accurate information and at the same time still say:

Japan wasn't
20:3820 minutes, 38 secondsallowed a real military which I think is probably a good thing.

WTF?! This is literally the reason why everything he is complaining about is happening!

Woke comments:

Graham Platner would 100% be over there if he could.

I have come to reject wholesale the narrative of WWII as heroic. As Paul Thomas Chamberlin recently wrote at the end of his book Scorched Earth (Basic Books, 2025), "the war did not end imperialism; imperialism ended the war." And did you know that Curtis LeMay, one of the Americans who planned most of the fire-bombings of Japan, went on to be the running mate of fervid segregationist George Wallace in 1968?

I saw a video about this and it was filled with americans talking about how "they deserve this treat after being on that boat for so long" and making light hearted remarks about how there's going to be a baby boom in 9 months. Like why is nobody else **** terrified.

Made me realize how utterly dire politics are that even American “leftists” who I THOUGHT shared the same general goals as me couldn’t even call out **** war criminals because it’s bad to “harp on soldiers” apparently.

Nah bro but remember they are the victims because after starting a war and murdering even more people in the region they had bad food.

i cant wait for the American left to inevitably support a navy sailor from the USS Abraham Lincoln when they become a politician  because he says he likes Medicare for all

They will probably paint him as a Victim Hero because he had to eat bad food, while taking part in warcrimes.

Also, for the record, I consider any of these Western colonial troops at least as bad as Epstein in terms of sexual behaviour. I am tired of many False Leftists (probably subconscious racists themselves) who are horrified by Epstein's behaviour just because the women involved are mostly "white", while dismissing Western military behaviour which had already been common knowledge decades earlier just because the women involved are mostly "non-white".