On Tuesday and Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit North Korea.
In the eyes of the Western media, this is a very Cold War signal.
North Korea was a military ally of the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
It was also the second major Cold War signal in just one week.
Just last week, three Russian surface ships, plus an extremely advanced nuclear submarine Kazan, came to Cuba and approached the Florida coast of the United States.
This scene is immediately reminiscent of the Cuban Missile Crisis during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Of course, symbolism means more serious than practical. The Russian side claims that this is just a planned ordinary visit.
The American media are also anxious to reassure the public that the Kazan does not carry a nuclear warhead, and the Russian ship will not pose any threat to the security of the United States.
Russia, of course, is not rushing to threaten the United States.
Russia's original intention was to send a signal to the United States. And the United States, on the other hand, received this signal in its entirety.
Russia is telling the United States that it has the ability to deploy military forces around the world and to carry out nuclear strikes on the US mainland.
As soon as the United States received the first signal, Russia immediately sent a second signal that Putin was going to visit North Korea.
What is Putin's visit to North Korea for?
In the eyes of the Western media, North Korea and Russia, this is clearly about strengthening military cooperation! Russia needs a lot of conventional ammunition to fight a war of attrition on the battlefield in Ukraine. North Korea needs advanced Russian military technology to improve its own military capabilities. In the economic sphere, there is also a lot of cooperation between the two sides.
Of course, this is all a false accusation by the Western media.
From the point of view of Russia, this is a normal friendly visit, there is nothing to say. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, "We believe that our right to develop good relations with our neighbors should not cause concern to anyone, and cannot and should not be questioned by anyone." ”
Whether the West should worry or not, Putin has actually made it very clear a long time ago.
After the United States and Western allies insisted on providing Ukraine with advanced weapons despite Russia's strong opposition, and allowed Ukraine to use these advanced weapons of Western countries to attack Russia's homeland, Putin issued a clear warning that Russia would respond unequally.
Putin said that Russia will let the United States know what it is like to provide advanced weapons to America's enemies. Russia has also long been engaged in proxy warfare.
From this point of view, the visit of the Russian fleet to Cuba, and now Putin's visit to North Korea, is clearly intended to give the United States a taste of this feeling.
Although both Russia and North Korea deny that they want to cooperate militarily, the possibility of such cooperation is very high, very complementary, and can even be said to be visible to the naked eye.
You know, the last time Putin visited North Korea was 24 years ago, during Putin's first presidential term. At that time, North Korea was still Kim Jong-il in power.
Moreover, the last close interaction between the leaders of the DPRK and Russia was only 9 months ago.
In September last year, Kim Jong-un visited the Russian Far East to meet with Putin and was invited to visit the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Russian Far East. The meaning of transmission is self-evident. Space launch and rocket-related technology is what North Korea needs most.
The last visit was 24 years ago, and the significance of the recent sudden increase in interaction should be obvious.
America's short-sightedness
Russia's indirect and bold actions can be said to clearly show the extremely short-sighted behavior of the United States.
When the United States adopted sanctions and crackdown measures against Russia, it did not consider at all how Russia could respond to the United States.
The United States just thinks that it is difficult for Russia to respond to the United States' attack measures by directly attacking the United States, but it forgets that the global security system is a whole, and in addition to directly clashing with the United States, Russia has 100 other ways to respond to the United States that make the United States very uncomfortable.
One of the simplest is to stand with the hostile countries of the United States.
Whether it is Cuba, North Korea, Iran or Syria, they are all subject to extreme sanctions and suppression by the United States.
However, this kind of sanctions and suppression is premised on the United States dominating the world and engaging in globalization.
If the United States pushes a certain big country, such as Russia, or even kicks Russia out of the system, then such US sanctions will be ineffective.
Because Russia will become a huge black hole for all these countries to bypass US sanctions.
At this time, the United States can basically only stare dryly and can no longer take any effective countermeasures. Because the United States has already exhausted all the maximum sanctions against these countries in the early stage, and imposing more sanctions will hardly have any effect.
The New Cold War
Since Russia began its war in Ukraine in February 2022, North Korea has sent thousands of containers worth of military supplies to Russia, and Russia has sent thousands of containers full of economic and other aid to North Korea, according to U.S. and South Korean officials.
However, in the case of the United States and Russia being in two different systems, as long as the other side does not admit it, then it is useless for you to accuse. Just as the United States blew up Nord Stream 2, Russia can deny it even if it has evidence, and the United States does not recognize it. The creditworthiness of the two parties has become completely irrelevant.
In fact, this kind of relationship between the United States and Russia is basically equivalent to entering a new Cold War.
For the United States and Russia, the world has been redivided into two systems. The forces in one system will not be able to exert force on the other, and they will become two independent systems.
But it is different from the old Cold War. Because in the old Cold War, most countries needed to take sides.
However, in this new Cold War, only a few countries, such as the United States and Russia, can choose their own sides and take sides against each other. Other countries can still cross the borders of the two systems.
In fact, at the beginning of its administration, the Biden administration advocated the so-called new Cold War, deglobalization, decoupling and chain breaking, and value confrontation.
However, because the concept of the Cold War carries too much historical hatred and is extremely unpopular, the Biden administration cannot be cleared no matter how it clarifies, and it has been completely refuted by the major powers in the East and has never dared to mention it again.
Now that the Biden administration is about to step down, the new Cold War he wants has been realized. It's just that not with the big powers of the East, but with the old rivals of the United States, the former Soviet Union, and now Russia.
This is really a hard way to plant flowers and flowers, and unintentionally plant willows and willows.
This also fully shows that although the Biden administration likes to play the new Cold War, it is completely amateur in the systematic way of playing the new Cold War, and does not understand how to play the Cold War and what countermeasures the opponent will have.
On the contrary, Russia can be said to be a very superb Cold War player, and it has achieved twice the result with half the effort by systematically maneuvering instead of confronting the United States head-on.
Even, if conspiracy theories can be established, then it can be said that the entire Palestinian-Israeli conflict is a major strategy of Russia to drag the United States into the water through the systematic Cold War play. It shows Russia's extremely superb trading ability and control ability.
Although Russia does not seem to be so advanced in terms of military technology and overall level, Russia's ability to operate this strategic system is still one of the best in the world today. By no means below the United States. On the contrary, these bad tricks of the United States appear to be reckless, focusing only on the present and not behind them, and in the end it appears to be very passive.