>>18447684Interesting, bumped your thread here and on KC.
Have you managed to read the manga? I think something about Surge's past was also said there, but I don't remember, I've read it years ago.
I think Sakhalin is still part of Russia, they are just butthurt about it and added that to Sinnoh. Even Kurils are rightfully Russian, they lost them in Russian-Japanese war.
I would really like to see next games set in Far East and Siberia in Russia, then Eastern Europe and finally Germany to explain this. Or even Korea and China.