“Know the Enemy:” 11 Revealing Quotes From Vladimir Putin

With a cantankerous leader inside the Korean Peninsula, Russia finds it difficult to convince him to tone things down, even in the face of a possible military engagement with the strongest military on the face of the planet.  Granted, China, its direct neighbor, is not having any such luck either.  While they have in the past been instrumental in keeping Jong-un’s family in power, as well as keeping its government afloat (being its sole trading partner, by and large) they have recently been attempting to quietly and grudgingly cutting diplomatic ties with Pyongyang, being that its leader is completely unhinged and unreasonable.

Russia, on the other hand, isn’t dealing with them as a neighbor, so much as it’s dealing with them as a potential nettling factor between themselves and the US.

On North Korea:  Of course we condemn North Korea’s nuclear tests and comply with all UN Security Council resolutions without exception.

But to solve this problem you must use dialog, not by trying to corner North Korea with military threats, and not resort to name-calling and public exchanges of insults. Whether you like the regime in Pyongyang or hate it, you have to recognize that DPRK is a sovereign state.”

TRANSLATION:  While I completely realize that the Fake News Industrial Complex in the United States is against Donald Trump, I will play to their sentiments that the American president is a backward-thinking, warmonger who is bent on the destruction of the planet through bully force of a vastly superior military to North Korea.  That said, I don’t like the fact that Donald Trump and his administration is bullying Kim Jong-un and I believe in the sovereignty of that nation because they aren’t ever going to be able to challenge us militarily and, if we wanted, we could crush them in an instant.

Here’s the reality of the above statement.  Russia does everything in its power and legally (or illegally, if it can get away with it…just like us, by the way) to sway governments or people to its side.  In the case of talking about name-calling and exchanges of insults, Putin famously sparred with the Ukrainian president, Petro Poroshenko, for many years while he invaded that country (also a sovereign state, by the way), but you didn’t hear the same tone from the Kremlin during that spat, did you?  Poroshenko took over as president after Russian-installed Victor Yanukovich was overcome by a coup that threw him into exile inside Russia.

How about his temporary invasion of Georgia back in the early going of George W. Bush’s first term.  Bush responded by sending warships to the Black Sea, if I recall correctly, and the Russian leader quietly withdrew the forces, but not before “retaining” part of the region, which has never been returned to the Georgian people.

Read the next quote on the following page about the fall of Ukrainian president Victor Yanukovich and how this was a terrible incident for that country!

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