Kim Jong Un is said to be worried about N Korea falling to a coup while he's with Trump in Singapore

Business Insider ^ | May 23, 2018 | David Choi

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You will not get your province back. Sorry ... but the Chinese are now firmly rooted there. And they look after their own and don’t play nice.

[BlackbirdSST]

Don’t ya hate when you go out on a business trip, only to come back to and empty office and all of your stuff in a box? I hate when that happens.

Call it The Comey Treatment!

[Peter ODonnell]

Suspect you are right ... and it’s not me that is the surprised one, just the hopeless multicults who thought it would all be good-good. One can only imagine the reaction if half a million of us descended on some Chinese city and started to take over. (to the camps, comrades)

[Peter ODonnell]

I would not disagree, however, this was a large-scale withdrawal with no guarantee of a successor government that would want to return, and we have options of making friends with the liberated and helping them maintain their freedom, most of which options we have taken. Even the Central Asian republics are probably in a better place now than under the Moscow rule, perhaps not all. The Baltics and Ukraine and the Caucasian republics have all done okay but some are getting push back. Moldova and Belarus seem more interested in playing along with Moscow to some extent.

The world is somewhat safer with the actual communists gone and the quasi-communists in charge in Moscow, and there will be a few years yet before they try to reclaim much more of the lost territory. Our task should be to befriend the most liberal-democratic groups in Russia to bring them closer to power after Putin’s gone. Perhaps with them in charge, the losses would be permanent and to some extent unlamented. Russia’s a pretty big country even without the other fourteen Soviet republics (the U.S.S.R. was about the size of Canada plus the U.S.A., Russia was three-quarters of that).