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Yep. And up until last week we were still sending tourists over to North Korea - you know the place with the crazy guy that wants to kill us all. And did you know, we trade with Iran! Shocker! And Cuba too!!!! What you read in the papers only rarely affects what deals are being done between countries and between companies and people even in supposedly enemy countries.

Most of the talk of war you hear on the news is just there to get the military budgets increased and to keep the local populations from noticing what dickheads their leaders are. Lil Kim is not going to blow up Guam. He can't. Russia is not going to take over the world. They can't. Venezuela is undergoing economic and political collapse. In a year or two they will be best friends again with the Yankee gringos - at least long enough to get a good deal on spare parts for their F-16s. That Cold War propaganda really got into your head good, didn't it?

Yep. And up until last week we were still sending tourists over to North Korea

That is a far cry from this...

Russia and North Korea declare 2015 a ‘year of friendship’

“The biggest cause for concern is the growing military alliance between Russia and North Korea, with the two regimes recently announcing plans to conduct a series of joint army, navy and air force exercises this year.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/11463265/Russia-and-North-Korea-declare-2015-a-year-of-friendship.html

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Russia steps up North Korea support to constrain US

May 17, 2017

“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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From the Sino-Russian Joint Statement of April 23, 1997:
"The two sides [China and Russia] shall, in the spirit of partnership, strive to promote the multipolarization of the world and the establishment of a new international order."

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/HI29Ag01.html
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"Joint war games are a logical outcome of the Sino-Russian Friendship and Cooperation Treaty signed in 2001, and reflect the shared worldview and growing economic ties between the two Eastern Hemisphere giants."

http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2005/09/war-games-russia-china-grow-alliance