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Here’s Vladimir Putin’s weirdly on-point analysis of North Korea
It’s strange to think of Russian President Vladimir Putin as a reliable source when it comes to geopolitical analysis. Yet when Putin talked about the US-North Korea nuclear standoff in a press conference on Thursday night, his assessment of the situation matched far more closely with what you hear from US experts on North Korea than anything that the Trump administration has said. Putin’s core point is that the central strategy of US policy under Trump, Obama, and Bush — attempting to pressure North Korea into giving up its nuclear program — has now conclusively failed. North Korea now believes that its nuclear arsenal is...
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This is a non sequitur. In fact, his actions in Ukraine and Syria show that he understands very, very well how international politics works.
It's just that Vox's unspoken assumption is that Nazis and Wahhabis are the good guys when they're being backed by the U.S.