Not only did President Bill Clinton's administration policy provide food to North Korea in return for little more than a promise to stop developing nuclear weapons (it didn't), the Clinton policies of swiping the Ukraine from Russia and making it independent so that people that supported the German Nazi side in world war two could have it and kick back to Wall Street led to a second chilly political war with a Russia trying to get it back. Chaos in the region necessarily grew.
Creating a new cold war to swipe land that was part of Russia before the Soviet Union existed was a policy bound to create tensions and lasting regional destabilization. Now it appears that North Korea was able to buy some rocket engines, designs and perhaps scientific technical help from the Ukraine or Russia that enable it presently to attack the United States and especially attack Guam.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/14/world/asia/north-korea-missiles-ukraine-factory.html
http://www.iiss.org/en/iiss%20voices/blogsections/iiss-voices-2017-adeb/august-2b48/north-korea-icbm-success-3abb
It might be fun to delude oneself that one can bully states with impunity and Russia was a poor choice of a state to try to intimidate rather than to build good social and commercial relations. Because the Ukraine was unsecure following the end of the first cold war nuclear technology was filched and forward to points unknown. It is quite possible that numerous nuclear warheads and weapons grade uranium are already out of control of regular nuclear powers.
At least President of Russia Vladimir Putin was able to help congress trim the federal budget when he kicked 750 U.S. diplomats from Russia following new U.S. sanctions. Congress sure can't cut back on the size of government itself.
Creating a new cold war to swipe land that was part of Russia before the Soviet Union existed was a policy bound to create tensions and lasting regional destabilization. Now it appears that North Korea was able to buy some rocket engines, designs and perhaps scientific technical help from the Ukraine or Russia that enable it presently to attack the United States and especially attack Guam.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/14/world/asia/north-korea-missiles-ukraine-factory.html
http://www.iiss.org/en/iiss%20voices/blogsections/iiss-voices-2017-adeb/august-2b48/north-korea-icbm-success-3abb
It might be fun to delude oneself that one can bully states with impunity and Russia was a poor choice of a state to try to intimidate rather than to build good social and commercial relations. Because the Ukraine was unsecure following the end of the first cold war nuclear technology was filched and forward to points unknown. It is quite possible that numerous nuclear warheads and weapons grade uranium are already out of control of regular nuclear powers.
At least President of Russia Vladimir Putin was able to help congress trim the federal budget when he kicked 750 U.S. diplomats from Russia following new U.S. sanctions. Congress sure can't cut back on the size of government itself.
