Korean shells - in Ukraine. What threaten Putin's negotiations and Kim Jong -in

The meeting of Putin and Kim Jong -in is bad news for Ukraine, writes Bloomberg Viewer Mark Champion. And not only because the front will enter the North Korean ammunition-but also because Russia is knocking down the block of the countries, finally destroying the world order. Kim Jong -in may seem like a comic figure with his armored train and hairstyle. But his trip to Russia does not cause laughter.

It is obvious that it is bad for Ukraine, because it will help Vladimir Putin to continue his invasion. In Kim, a large stock of ammunition compatible with Soviet weapons, while Russian soldiers complain about the lack of Ukraine's counter -offensive.

No side has reported the details of the negotiations on Wednesday, but Kim Jong -in has already sent a batch of artillery shells for Russia to use Russia in Ukraine last year (according to American intelligence), and it seems obvious that now there is something more on the table. In response to the question, Putin confirmed that choosing a place for their meeting - the Eastern Cosmodrom in the Amur region - means that Kim Jong -in will receive help in his problematic satellite program.

Of course, Ukraine receives weapons from third parties. But it is wrong to say that the supply of weapons for invasion is the same as giving it to the country that protects itself. And the main focus - Kim clearly made it clear that he arrived to conclude a strategic alliance against the US, evil Hegemon and the enemy. The last word is important.

In the recent article of Constantine Stelsenjuller, a senior researcher at the Brukings Institute, it is said that the lesson of Ukraine is that the 30-year-old pause of the event without an enemy's size ended. Of course, the US and Europe during this time had to encounter ordinary countries and competitors, as well as international terrorists and so-called habitats, in particular, the same North Korea Kima. But there was no strategic enemy who would act against the event.

Now it is Russia, and it attracts a variety of like -minded people in its business. Others are Iran, who kept the Kremlin at the distance of his hand out in 2015 to force him to suspend a nuclear fuel program and the likely development of nuclear weapons. Moscow realized that both Iran and North Korea had a destabilizing effect on its own huge "backyard", and the situation can only deteriorate if they create nuclear arsenals. But it was before Putin invaded Ukraine and everything went wrong.

These countries have artillery shells and drones that Putin needs, and he will do his best to get them. This means helping them with their own security priorities. Putin made his first trip beyond the country since the beginning of the war in July last when he visited the supreme leader Ayatoll Hamenei in Tehran. He was followed by delegations of the defense industry and industry.

The consequences will be tangible not only in Europe but also in Asia and the Middle East, as Russia is a member of the UN Security Council, a large nuclear state and has resources such as the Eastern Cosmoder that lacks such as North Korea and Iran. The US economic sanctions have not changed this. In the presence of enough such comrades, the very idea of ​​the "ironing state" may cease to make sense.

They will become a block, of course, unattractive and relatively weak, but capable of causing significant harm. Russia is also actively recruiting supporters in Africa, sponsoring the coups on the way of which are pro -Western leaders. This is not a Cold War, or at least not the mature war we remember. It is less structured, more mobile and not yet formed. Russia is also not the former Soviet Union, even though Putin seems to have lost these two points in his comments by Kim.

He recalled that it was "our country" that was the first to recognize the Korean People's Democratic Republic as a state, and "our country" supported "the war for independence" of the DPRK against South Korea, which was supported by the United States in the 1950s. Fans of the Korean separated model for the future of Ukraine, look for this passage. Russia's attempt to avoid isolation, however, will affect our world and undermine the international order based on the rules that Putin is so despised.