Why is Putin backing North Korea?

[Litwin]

washington post answer is "To build up "Russia" as a great power." do you agree? or there are other reasons as well? What Trump is gonna do to Putin for this?

my answer is its all about Crimea (legalization of Muscovite occupation of Crimea) , what do you think?



"
On July 6, the Russian delegation to the United Nations released an official statement, criticizing Washington’s handling of the North Korean crisis. In their statement, Russian diplomats disputed U.S. allegations that North Korea launched an intercontinental ballistic missile against Japan on July 4, saying rather, that Pyongyang had launched an intermediate-ranged rocket. Russia also opposed U.N. proposals for tighter economic sanctions against Pyongyang.

Numerous Western analysts, like Bloomberg View columnist Leonid Bershidsky and Council of Foreign Relations fellow Van Jackson, have attempted to explain Russia’s conduct by highlighting Moscow’s economic and geopolitical links to Pyongyang.

But there’s more. Moscow defends North Korea in a way that’s designed to get both the Russian public and the international community to see Russia as a great power.

[President Trump, keep in mind that Russia and the West think about negotiations very, very differently]

My doctoral research focuses on how, during international crises, Kremlin elites remind audiences that Russia is a great power. The goal is to rally public support for their policies and increase Moscow’s international position as a credible counterweight to U.S. hegemony.

You can see this in two ways: first, in Russia’s attempts to showcase itself as more effective at resolving conflicts in the Korean Peninsula than the United States; and second, in Russia’s efforts to lead an international coalition against Washington’s coercion of North Korea."

Analysis | Why is Putin backing North Korea? To build up Russia as a great power.

 

[Hossfly]

washington post answer is "To build up "Russia" as a great power." do you agree? or there are other reasons as well? What Trump is gonna do to Putin for this?

my answer is its all about Crimea (legalization of Muscovite occupation of Crimea) , what do you think?



"
On July 6, the Russian delegation to the United Nations released an official statement, criticizing Washington’s handling of the North Korean crisis. In their statement, Russian diplomats disputed U.S. allegations that North Korea launched an intercontinental ballistic missile against Japan on July 4, saying rather, that Pyongyang had launched an intermediate-ranged rocket. Russia also opposed U.N. proposals for tighter economic sanctions against Pyongyang.

Numerous Western analysts, like Bloomberg View columnist Leonid Bershidsky and Council of Foreign Relations fellow Van Jackson, have attempted to explain Russia’s conduct by highlighting Moscow’s economic and geopolitical links to Pyongyang.

But there’s more. Moscow defends North Korea in a way that’s designed to get both the Russian public and the international community to see Russia as a great power.

[President Trump, keep in mind that Russia and the West think about negotiations very, very differently]

My doctoral research focuses on how, during international crises, Kremlin elites remind audiences that Russia is a great power. The goal is to rally public support for their policies and increase Moscow’s international position as a credible counterweight to U.S. hegemony.

You can see this in two ways: first, in Russia’s attempts to showcase itself as more effective at resolving conflicts in the Korean Peninsula than the United States; and second, in Russia’s efforts to lead an international coalition against Washington’s coercion of North Korea."

Analysis | Why is Putin backing North Korea? To build up Russia as a great power.

The answer: Russia is the leader of The Axis Of Evil which includes North Korea and Iran.

 

[Votto]

washington post answer is "To build up "Russia" as a great power." do you agree? or there are other reasons as well? What Trump is gonna do to Putin for this?

my answer is its all about Crimea (legalization of Muscovite occupation of Crimea) , what do you think?



"
On July 6, the Russian delegation to the United Nations released an official statement, criticizing Washington’s handling of the North Korean crisis. In their statement, Russian diplomats disputed U.S. allegations that North Korea launched an intercontinental ballistic missile against Japan on July 4, saying rather, that Pyongyang had launched an intermediate-ranged rocket. Russia also opposed U.N. proposals for tighter economic sanctions against Pyongyang.

Numerous Western analysts, like Bloomberg View columnist Leonid Bershidsky and Council of Foreign Relations fellow Van Jackson, have attempted to explain Russia’s conduct by highlighting Moscow’s economic and geopolitical links to Pyongyang.

But there’s more. Moscow defends North Korea in a way that’s designed to get both the Russian public and the international community to see Russia as a great power.

[President Trump, keep in mind that Russia and the West think about negotiations very, very differently]

My doctoral research focuses on how, during international crises, Kremlin elites remind audiences that Russia is a great power. The goal is to rally public support for their policies and increase Moscow’s international position as a credible counterweight to U.S. hegemony.

You can see this in two ways: first, in Russia’s attempts to showcase itself as more effective at resolving conflicts in the Korean Peninsula than the United States; and second, in Russia’s efforts to lead an international coalition against Washington’s coercion of North Korea."

Analysis | Why is Putin backing North Korea? To build up Russia as a great power.

They are playing king of the hill

It's collectivism 101.

 

[Litwin]

washington post answer is "To build up "Russia" as a great power." do you agree? or there are other reasons as well? What Trump is gonna do to Putin for this?

my answer is its all about Crimea (legalization of Muscovite occupation of Crimea) , what do you think?



"
On July 6, the Russian delegation to the United Nations released an official statement, criticizing Washington’s handling of the North Korean crisis. In their statement, Russian diplomats disputed U.S. allegations that North Korea launched an intercontinental ballistic missile against Japan on July 4, saying rather, that Pyongyang had launched an intermediate-ranged rocket. Russia also opposed U.N. proposals for tighter economic sanctions against Pyongyang.

Numerous Western analysts, like Bloomberg View columnist Leonid Bershidsky and Council of Foreign Relations fellow Van Jackson, have attempted to explain Russia’s conduct by highlighting Moscow’s economic and geopolitical links to Pyongyang.

But there’s more. Moscow defends North Korea in a way that’s designed to get both the Russian public and the international community to see Russia as a great power.

[President Trump, keep in mind that Russia and the West think about negotiations very, very differently]

My doctoral research focuses on how, during international crises, Kremlin elites remind audiences that Russia is a great power. The goal is to rally public support for their policies and increase Moscow’s international position as a credible counterweight to U.S. hegemony.

You can see this in two ways: first, in Russia’s attempts to showcase itself as more effective at resolving conflicts in the Korean Peninsula than the United States; and second, in Russia’s efforts to lead an international coalition against Washington’s coercion of North Korea."

Analysis | Why is Putin backing North Korea? To build up Russia as a great power.

The answer: Russia is the leader of The Axis Of Evil which includes North Korea and Iran.

+1, and what do you think, D. Trump is gonna do with it?

 

[Stratford57]

And why is Ukraine supplying engines to help NK with their bombs?

NYT:
North Korea’s success in testing an intercontinental ballistic missile that appears able to reach the United States was made possible by black-market purchases of powerful rocket engines probably from a Ukrainian factory. Government investigators and experts have focused their inquiries on a missile factory in Dnipro, Ukraine.

Experts believe it is the most likely source of the engines that in July powered the two ICBM tests, which were the first to suggest that North Korea has the range, if not necessarily the accuracy or warhead technology, to threaten American cities.

North Korea’s Missile Success Is Linked to Ukrainian Plant, Investigators Say

Official Kiev already called NYT a Kremlin agent.

 

[Mac1958]

It seems like Putin just wants to knee-jerk against anything we support or do.

Knee-jerking can be your own undoing.

 

[Litwin]

And why is Ukraine supplying engines to help NK with their bombs?

NYT:
North Korea’s success in testing an intercontinental ballistic missile that appears able to reach the United States was made possible by black-market purchases of powerful rocket engines probably from a Ukrainian factory. Government investigators and experts have focused their inquiries on a missile factory in Dnipro, Ukraine.

Experts believe it is the most likely source of the engines that in July powered the two ICBM tests, which were the first to suggest that North Korea has the range, if not necessarily the accuracy or warhead technology, to threaten American cities.

North Korea’s Missile Success Is Linked to Ukrainian Plant, Investigators Say

Official Kiev already called NYT a Kremlin agent.

ok, "Ukrainian " pro- Kremlin thugs (oligarchs) sold to the madman engines, or whats your point? prison for those criminal idiots, deportation to USA? 99% Ukrainians will agree , for sure

 

[Rustic]

washington post answer is "To build up "Russia" as a great power." do you agree? or there are other reasons as well? What Trump is gonna do to Putin for this?

my answer is its all about Crimea (legalization of Muscovite occupation of Crimea) , what do you think?



"
On July 6, the Russian delegation to the United Nations released an official statement, criticizing Washington’s handling of the North Korean crisis. In their statement, Russian diplomats disputed U.S. allegations that North Korea launched an intercontinental ballistic missile against Japan on July 4, saying rather, that Pyongyang had launched an intermediate-ranged rocket. Russia also opposed U.N. proposals for tighter economic sanctions against Pyongyang.

Numerous Western analysts, like Bloomberg View columnist Leonid Bershidsky and Council of Foreign Relations fellow Van Jackson, have attempted to explain Russia’s conduct by highlighting Moscow’s economic and geopolitical links to Pyongyang.

But there’s more. Moscow defends North Korea in a way that’s designed to get both the Russian public and the international community to see Russia as a great power.

[President Trump, keep in mind that Russia and the West think about negotiations very, very differently]

My doctoral research focuses on how, during international crises, Kremlin elites remind audiences that Russia is a great power. The goal is to rally public support for their policies and increase Moscow’s international position as a credible counterweight to U.S. hegemony.

You can see this in two ways: first, in Russia’s attempts to showcase itself as more effective at resolving conflicts in the Korean Peninsula than the United States; and second, in Russia’s efforts to lead an international coalition against Washington’s coercion of North Korea."

Analysis | Why is Putin backing North Korea? To build up Russia as a great power.

Putin knows North Korea is just bluffing...

 

[Litwin]

washington post answer is "To build up "Russia" as a great power." do you agree? or there are other reasons as well? What Trump is gonna do to Putin for this?

my answer is its all about Crimea (legalization of Muscovite occupation of Crimea) , what do you think?



"
On July 6, the Russian delegation to the United Nations released an official statement, criticizing Washington’s handling of the North Korean crisis. In their statement, Russian diplomats disputed U.S. allegations that North Korea launched an intercontinental ballistic missile against Japan on July 4, saying rather, that Pyongyang had launched an intermediate-ranged rocket. Russia also opposed U.N. proposals for tighter economic sanctions against Pyongyang.

Numerous Western analysts, like Bloomberg View columnist Leonid Bershidsky and Council of Foreign Relations fellow Van Jackson, have attempted to explain Russia’s conduct by highlighting Moscow’s economic and geopolitical links to Pyongyang.

But there’s more. Moscow defends North Korea in a way that’s designed to get both the Russian public and the international community to see Russia as a great power.

[President Trump, keep in mind that Russia and the West think about negotiations very, very differently]

My doctoral research focuses on how, during international crises, Kremlin elites remind audiences that Russia is a great power. The goal is to rally public support for their policies and increase Moscow’s international position as a credible counterweight to U.S. hegemony.

You can see this in two ways: first, in Russia’s attempts to showcase itself as more effective at resolving conflicts in the Korean Peninsula than the United States; and second, in Russia’s efforts to lead an international coalition against Washington’s coercion of North Korea."

Analysis | Why is Putin backing North Korea? To build up Russia as a great power.

Putin knows North Korea is just bluffing and function

maybe is a bluffing, but try to talk to Japanese people, they go nuts literally ...

 

[Litwin]

guys , maybe its time to save them all?
"North Korea, 1995: One of the few pictures that exist showing how poor a"

 

[Rustic]

Pudding knows North Korea is all bark and no bite....

 

[Litwin]

Pudding knows North Korea is all bark and no bite....

man, do you remember Chernobyl disaster ? you know $hitt happens ...

 

[Hossfly]

washington post answer is "To build up "Russia" as a great power." do you agree? or there are other reasons as well? What Trump is gonna do to Putin for this?

my answer is its all about Crimea (legalization of Muscovite occupation of Crimea) , what do you think?



"
On July 6, the Russian delegation to the United Nations released an official statement, criticizing Washington’s handling of the North Korean crisis. In their statement, Russian diplomats disputed U.S. allegations that North Korea launched an intercontinental ballistic missile against Japan on July 4, saying rather, that Pyongyang had launched an intermediate-ranged rocket. Russia also opposed U.N. proposals for tighter economic sanctions against Pyongyang.

Numerous Western analysts, like Bloomberg View columnist Leonid Bershidsky and Council of Foreign Relations fellow Van Jackson, have attempted to explain Russia’s conduct by highlighting Moscow’s economic and geopolitical links to Pyongyang.

But there’s more. Moscow defends North Korea in a way that’s designed to get both the Russian public and the international community to see Russia as a great power.

[President Trump, keep in mind that Russia and the West think about negotiations very, very differently]

My doctoral research focuses on how, during international crises, Kremlin elites remind audiences that Russia is a great power. The goal is to rally public support for their policies and increase Moscow’s international position as a credible counterweight to U.S. hegemony.

You can see this in two ways: first, in Russia’s attempts to showcase itself as more effective at resolving conflicts in the Korean Peninsula than the United States; and second, in Russia’s efforts to lead an international coalition against Washington’s coercion of North Korea."

Analysis | Why is Putin backing North Korea? To build up Russia as a great power.

The answer: Russia is the leader of The Axis Of Evil which includes North Korea and Iran.

+1, and what do you think, D. Trump is gonna do with it?

Russia has been provoking the US since WWII, North Korea since the Korean War and Iran since before 1979. North Korea is the country that could fire a missile if Kim loses more of his mind. Then the US would bomb his nuke factories and possibly send Tomahawk missiles to Kim's bedroom. The US signed an agreement never to assassinate a country's leaders but as has been reported, South Korea is training assassination squads. If we should attack NK, Russia and Iran will pull their claws back in.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Putin is trying to distract from his plan to wipe Democrats out of Congress in 2018.

 

[impuretrash]

The answer: Russia is the leader of The Axis Of Evil which includes North Korea and Iran.

Yeah and those WMDs are stashed under a bed in Iraq. Silly neocon...

 

[Rustic]

The answer: Russia is the leader of The Axis Of Evil which includes North Korea and Iran.

Yeah and those WMDs are stashed under a bed in Iraq. Silly neocon...

Most likely used by the Syrian leader on his own people… LOL

 

[Ted Frazier]

And why is Ukraine supplying engines to help NK with their bombs?

NYT:
North Korea’s success in testing an intercontinental ballistic missile that appears able to reach the United States was made possible by black-market purchases of powerful rocket engines probably from a Ukrainian factory. Government investigators and experts have focused their inquiries on a missile factory in Dnipro, Ukraine.

Experts believe it is the most likely source of the engines that in July powered the two ICBM tests, which were the first to suggest that North Korea has the range, if not necessarily the accuracy or warhead technology, to threaten American cities.

North Korea’s Missile Success Is Linked to Ukrainian Plant, Investigators Say

Official Kiev already called NYT a Kremlin agent.

are you saying that Trump is going to do nothing about Russia and Ukraine?
I thought Trump was a tough president.

 

[impuretrash]

are you saying that Trump is going to do nothing about Russia and Ukraine?
I thought Trump was a tough president.

NO MORE POINTLESS UNWINNABLE WARS

 

[Litwin]

washington post answer is "To build up "Russia" as a great power." do you agree? or there are other reasons as well? What Trump is gonna do to Putin for this?

my answer is its all about Crimea (legalization of Muscovite occupation of Crimea) , what do you think?



"
On July 6, the Russian delegation to the United Nations released an official statement, criticizing Washington’s handling of the North Korean crisis. In their statement, Russian diplomats disputed U.S. allegations that North Korea launched an intercontinental ballistic missile against Japan on July 4, saying rather, that Pyongyang had launched an intermediate-ranged rocket. Russia also opposed U.N. proposals for tighter economic sanctions against Pyongyang.

Numerous Western analysts, like Bloomberg View columnist Leonid Bershidsky and Council of Foreign Relations fellow Van Jackson, have attempted to explain Russia’s conduct by highlighting Moscow’s economic and geopolitical links to Pyongyang.

But there’s more. Moscow defends North Korea in a way that’s designed to get both the Russian public and the international community to see Russia as a great power.

[President Trump, keep in mind that Russia and the West think about negotiations very, very differently]

My doctoral research focuses on how, during international crises, Kremlin elites remind audiences that Russia is a great power. The goal is to rally public support for their policies and increase Moscow’s international position as a credible counterweight to U.S. hegemony.

You can see this in two ways: first, in Russia’s attempts to showcase itself as more effective at resolving conflicts in the Korean Peninsula than the United States; and second, in Russia’s efforts to lead an international coalition against Washington’s coercion of North Korea."

Analysis | Why is Putin backing North Korea? To build up Russia as a great power.

The answer: Russia is the leader of The Axis Of Evil which includes North Korea and Iran.

+1, and what do you think, D. Trump is gonna do with it?

Russia has been provoking the US since WWII, North Korea since the Korean War and Iran since before 1979. North Korea is the country that could fire a missile if Kim loses more of his mind. Then the US would bomb his nuke factories and possibly send Tomahawk missiles to Kim's bedroom. The US signed an agreement never to assassinate a country's leaders but as has been reported, South Korea is training assassination squads. If we should attack NK, Russia and Iran will pull their claws back in.

USSR has had the clear plan (narrative) which was the Marxist World revolution. Muscovy (RF) is not USSR and Kremlin thugs have other plans , ambitions , possibilities ...

, Google's co-founder Sergey Brin said that "Russia" was nothing but “Nigeria with snow”

 

[Litwin]

Putin is trying to distract from his plan to wipe Democrats out of Congress in 2018.

the Republicans in Congress hate Putler even more... so what ´d Putler help them?