So that's an excuse for not protecting vital nuclear missile technology?
At least the Yanukovich government was competent in this regard.
Whatever damage North Korea causes, that blood is on the hands of that fascist puppet regime in Kiev and their neo-liberal enablers in Washington DC.
Of course Russian leadership looks good when Ukrainian political incompetence is the standard.
But with the Donbass debacle, Crimea annexation, et al. Popular support Russia once had in Ukraine fizzled. Enough people prefer independence from Putin’s sphere even with all the ensuing uncertainty.
Trump admin is the beginning of a new era in U.S. foreign policy and hopefully the days in which American weakness fosters the environment in which people like Putin or Xi Jinping hold so many cards are over.