A friendly meeting between leaders of countries with common interest, especially after the Covid pandemic. I will not parrot the US line that the meeting is ominous in nature. If one recalls the US claim that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, wisdom would dictate to dismiss anything that comes out from the US administration about countries not in tandem with its policies. Anyway, as Putin put it , political commentators and political scientists are charlatans. There is some truth in that.
Who cares what the US state says, or the White House and their presidents say. If the critics of the Stalinist Putin regime are charlatans, what does it say about Putin who murders in cold blood his political enemies. Or Xi Jinping who moves quietly and certain members of his regimes vanish, tainted by accusations by the (also) Stalinist CCP regime that these people are "corrupt". Putin is amongst the most corrupt in Russia. Xi and his cronies in China are no better: how did Xi and his family amass so much wealth that it is hidden from scrutiny? And what about Babyface Kim of North Korea, who starves his people to keep them weak from rising against his murderous regime? The Putin-Kim so-called meeting was mostly about Russia's desperation to buy weapons to be used against its illegal invasion of Ukraine and Kim's desperation for outdated Russian weapons technology to build his nuclear program as well as whatever worthless roubles he can get to fatten his wealth at the expense of the people of North Korea. Xi hasn't said much about the Putin-Kim "meeting" but if you read the Chinese media, it has irked him, and he's watching, especially now that Belarus wants to forge a tripartite axis with Russia and North Korea. I'm not so concerned if this happens; I'd be more concerned if China joins that axis. And I think Xi might have thought, before, during and after his last "summit" with Putin, that he would be able to influence Russian policy on maters defense, economic and ideology. What ideology? Certainly not Marxism, which dies in China 1978. The practice is definitively more and more Stalinist. And ordinary Chinese people should be worried where Xi is taking China. And as long as China refuses to supply Kim of North Korea with its nuclear technology, the Putin-Kim meeting doesn't matter all that much. Just as one didn't pay much attention to Barack Obama's call for the US to "pivot to Asia". The only "pivot is the old Cold War one of containing China. And it isn't working. An "enlightenment West" is seeing its own disintegration, slowly but surely. But that doesn't mean Putin or zKim or Xi are in more "enlightened" positions. Look at their economies now. Look at their politics too. It says more, much more, than your naive use of the cliched weapons of mass destruction line. I repeat: the sources of all foreign policies and international lies in the laps of each country's domestic policies and politics. Understanding the latter helps one better understand IR -- realism or otherwise.
You are a parrot; you keep repeating yourself. Obviously you have nothing intelligent to add. If you have insights into the minds of Xi, Kim and Putin, share them, even if you were to copycat the state media that are controlled by these three people.
Let’s hear yours.
A friendly meeting between leaders of countries with common interest, especially after the Covid pandemic. I will not parrot the US line that the meeting is ominous in nature. If one recalls the US claim that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, wisdom would dictate to dismiss anything that comes out from the US administration about countries not in tandem with its policies. Anyway, as Putin put it , political commentators and political scientists are charlatans. There is some truth in that.
Who cares what the US state says, or the White House and their presidents say. If the critics of the Stalinist Putin regime are charlatans, what does it say about Putin who murders in cold blood his political enemies. Or Xi Jinping who moves quietly and certain members of his regimes vanish, tainted by accusations by the (also) Stalinist CCP regime that these people are "corrupt". Putin is amongst the most corrupt in Russia. Xi and his cronies in China are no better: how did Xi and his family amass so much wealth that it is hidden from scrutiny? And what about Babyface Kim of North Korea, who starves his people to keep them weak from rising against his murderous regime? The Putin-Kim so-called meeting was mostly about Russia's desperation to buy weapons to be used against its illegal invasion of Ukraine and Kim's desperation for outdated Russian weapons technology to build his nuclear program as well as whatever worthless roubles he can get to fatten his wealth at the expense of the people of North Korea. Xi hasn't said much about the Putin-Kim "meeting" but if you read the Chinese media, it has irked him, and he's watching, especially now that Belarus wants to forge a tripartite axis with Russia and North Korea. I'm not so concerned if this happens; I'd be more concerned if China joins that axis. And I think Xi might have thought, before, during and after his last "summit" with Putin, that he would be able to influence Russian policy on maters defense, economic and ideology. What ideology? Certainly not Marxism, which dies in China 1978. The practice is definitively more and more Stalinist. And ordinary Chinese people should be worried where Xi is taking China. And as long as China refuses to supply Kim of North Korea with its nuclear technology, the Putin-Kim meeting doesn't matter all that much. Just as one didn't pay much attention to Barack Obama's call for the US to "pivot to Asia". The only "pivot is the old Cold War one of containing China. And it isn't working. An "enlightenment West" is seeing its own disintegration, slowly but surely. But that doesn't mean Putin or zKim or Xi are in more "enlightened" positions. Look at their economies now. Look at their politics too. It says more, much more, than your naive use of the cliched weapons of mass destruction line. I repeat: the sources of all foreign policies and international lies in the laps of each country's domestic policies and politics. Understanding the latter helps one better understand IR -- realism or otherwise.
Speculations and emotive opinions , again regurgitation of Western media.
You are a parrot; you keep repeating yourself. Obviously you have nothing intelligent to add. If you have insights into the minds of Xi, Kim and Putin, share them, even if you were to copycat the state media that are controlled by these three people.