War fatigue over Ukraine setting in Indo-Pacific region

War fatigue over Ukraine is setting in not just in Europe and the USA but also in the Indo-Pacific region. Former Japanese PM Yoshori Mori in an interview with the country’s national publication Nikkan Gendai claimed that the Russian economy has stood the test of time and withstood sanctions and that the Russian military has repelled the counter-offensive amid popularity ratings for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In October, Muneo Suzuki, a former parliamentary vice-minister of foreign affairs, visited Russia for a five-day trip from October 1 to meet with various Russian officials including Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko. It was the first publicly known visit by a Japanese lawmaker to Russia since the war. Suzuki, once a member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, has been deeply involved in Japan's efforts to solve its territorial disputes with Russia.

Japan’s national newspaper Mainichi Shimbun claimed that aid to Ukraine will be reduced in the backdrop of US elections and winter season in Europe with additional energy requirements.


“This year's much-touted counteroffensive, which took off in June, has progressed at a much slower pace, with Ukrainian troops struggling to dislodge Russians who are entrenched in captured territory. Additional U.S. funding for Ukraine is jeopardized by political fights in Washington, where the new war consumes attention at the highest levels. Divisions over Ukraine have also emerged in the European Union, which says it cannot provide all the munitions it promised. EU summits and other high-level global meetings now tend to focus on the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza,” according to a report in the Associated Press.

Japan Times recently wrote, “To make matters worse, fatigue also seems to be present in Europe, and for the moment it is more pronounced in Central and Eastern European countries that have long been some of Kyiv’s closest partners. Many have largely burned through their Soviet-era military kit by sending it to Ukraine.”