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An alliance of equals

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An alliance of equals

I'm old enough to remember when it was Russia propping up North Korea, not the other way around.

Damian Penny
Sep 5, 2023
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One country is a hermit kingdom run by a paranoid dictator overseeing a pervasive cult of personality and a large but hopelessly obsolete military, devoting its scarce resources to a nuclear arsenal with which it blackmails the world into letting it stay in power even as it belligerently torments its neighbors.

The other is North Korea.

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