But why go inserting the historical record into the analysis.
Posted on 11/14/2017 9:47:07 AM PST by GoldenState_Rose
In their 2014 book North Korea: The Politics of Regime Survival, Young Whan Kihl and Hong Nack Kim noted that “some restricted arm and weapons material have reached North Korea from Russia. . . . Russian companies have been among the suppliers of North Korea’s nuclear program.” Now Putin may be covertly supplying its missile program as well.
The key question is why Putin would exacerbate an already crisis-level situation on the Korean peninsula. The answer may be the same as to why Putin has embroiled Russia in Syria: as a way to disrupt and distract the West, especially the United States, and to make Kim Jong-un a Putin client like Syria’s Assad, a dictator who becomes completely dependent on Moscow for his regional status, even his survival, and will do Moscow’s bidding.
(Excerpt) Read more at hudson.org ...
But wait! Barack told Mitt that the Russians weren`t a problem anymore so this just can`t be!.....sarc
Putin may have provided missile and nuclear weapons tech to North Korea so Kim could forward weapons to Iran to threaten the Saudis in the proxy war Russia was waging with the Saudis at the time over oil production
The Saudis lost big in that little adventure and are having big problems. The Saudis did are cleaning house on responsible parties and all sides are scrambling to deal with the fallout
Russian weapon technology transfer to North Korea and Iran is the biggest problem we have to deal with
May be. Great reporting. NO facts, just guesses.
Typical idiot these days. Useless.
And by contrast, what do you think the facts are then? Honestly after coming back from Russia and dealing with idiocy of people here I wish we had some exchange program where the amazing young Russians whose intellectual potential is being crushed by the regime could get US visas and green cards and all the Putin cheerleaders here be sent over there and find employment to play dress-up for his latest monthly military parade festivities.
But why go inserting the historical record into the analysis.
The current state of affairs with North Korea making shril and aggressive threats against us benefits Russia far more than it does China.
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“Despite efforts by the United Nations to impose isolating sanctions on North Korea in response to the country’s continued development of nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles, trade between Russia and North Korea soared more than 85 percent in the first four months of the year.”
http://www.dw.com/en/russia-steps-up-north-korea-support-to-constrain-us/a-38867861
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Putin very much wants a 'unified Korea' (under communist NK rule)
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Sept 5, 2017
The US said on Monday it would table a new UN resolution on tougher sanctions in the wake of the latest test of a nuclear bomb by the North on Sunday.
Mr Putin also said that the ramping up of “military hysteria” could lead to global catastrophe.
He said diplomacy was the only answer.
China, the North’s main ally, has also called for a return to negotiations. ...”
No way in hell would Russia pawns NK or Iran act on their own.
Well yeah. I don’t even need to read this article. Either Russia or China or both have every strategic reason to use N.Korea to troll the U.S. Derp. We go to war to de-nuke them and they get to make us into the bad guys, and turn up some geopolitical heat. It’s a dangerous course to take but it keeps them from looking like the bad guys or at least not the aggressor if the excrement hits the proverbial fan. Kim is just a pawn like the previous Kims were. All according to plan
Da! I understand, I push this button and amazing young Russians whose intellectual potential is being crushed, you will order hired by Fusion GPS, and you will deliver more Uranium to us.
“And by contrast, what do you think the facts are then?”
I didn’t write or post the article. Facts are the responsibility of the writer, not the readers.
Oh here we go again....keeping Russia Gate alive!....
Russia Gate does a disservice to our policy-making precisely because it distracts from the ACTUAL threat(s) Russia poses rather than the stupid liberal media conspiracies about the election results.
Nope, it's not openly corrupt Ukraine oligarchs who are into everything from organ harvesting to the heroin trade, it has to be Russia taking engines it no longer uses and never made outside of Ukraine because Hillary says it's the Russians.
Ukraine and Russia both have the same system ills...and quite a few Ukrainian oligarchs are loyal to Russia or in their sphere of influence.
Don’t get me wrong, Poroshenko is no saint — but it’s precisely because places like Ukraine are “lost” to Western orbit that Putin is extra aggressive about maintaining his grip on Syria and NoKo.
What if everything you have been told, in your life, is a lie?
Why hasn’t Switzerland ever been attacked?
What is thier history?
Who guards the “Holy See”?
Who guards the DMZ?
Who are the Rothchilds?
What is the connection to the Queen?
What is thier connection to the Vatican?
Who owns the Federal Reserve Bank?
Be prepared. Open your eyes. Pray!
We know the real threat.....Putin doesn’t hide it.
Putin’s not been the aggressor on the World Stage...we have been....We have 1,400 US bases throughout the world in over 120 countries/states. No other country welds that military power.....
Hey if our ONLY warm water port was being threatened we’d have our pants in a knot too...if Putin had missiles in Cuba we know from History our pants would be in a knot. He’s doing the same thing we do in protecting his borders.....we just don’t like how he’s doing it.....but it’s ok for us to blow up cities....or take down leaders....Libya, Serbia, Egypt, Iraq Apfghanistan......etc etc.
I am not Dick Cheney. You don’t need to lecture me. Just know that Putin does not have some moral high ground simply because he’s jealous of America’s capacity for aggression.
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