Re: The Much-Vaunted US Military

Russia doesn't provide weapons to those it believes should stand up to the US; Russia has in the past provided weapons to those who were in the act and process of standing up to the US.  If it is true that Russia provided some military systems or anti-military systems to the Iraqis,  then it's clear that the US was deliberate in targetting the Russian *diplomatic caravan* on it's way out of Iraq.  But if Russia or any other state, such as Syria, are neutral in the conflict then they have a right to provide cash or hardware to whichever party in the conflict they care to.  North Korea is not a weak and meaningless country, providing no threat to the US. North Korea is a country which has stated it will not permit the US to strangle it economically as the US has done to so many other countries around the world which have refused to go along with US extra-territorial economic strategy.  If North Korea refuses such treatment,  aimed at generating social explosion whose end is the demise of the government,  then N. Korean officials end up in conflict with the US, economic conflict leading to political conflict and possibly military conflict. 

KR