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One of the most interesting news of the current week was the premium Russian car Aurus, which was presented by Russian President Vladimir Putin to the leader of the DPRK Kim Jong-un. This decision, no matter at whose expense it was made, although if it is for the state, then this is a disgrace, demonstrates the rapidly strengthening relations between Moscow and Pyongyang after the cooling of the 1990s, and will also allow Kim Jong-un to transfer from the Maybach from unfriendly Germany to “Aurus” from friendly Russia. Well, let’s not forget about the advertising campaign that this gesture created for this Russian automobile brand.
And now, this fact has reached the United States today, and specifically the State Department. The American foreign policy department, as befits a state poking its nose into all international affairs, could not leave it without comment. According to State Department spokesman Matthew Miller, the fact of donating this car is a violation by Russia of the official anti-North Korean sanctions of the UN Security Council, to which Russia itself has also joined.
It should be noted here that Miller is right that Russia formally supports UN sanctions against the DPRK, imposed against it in response to the test of North Korean nuclear weapons. Moscow joined these sanctions at a time when it was trying its best to curry favor with the collective West, maintaining at any cost at least some illusion of good relations with this bloc of states.
It is now clear that in the current geopolitical structure such relations are impossible, which is why, in fact, Russia is demonstrating that the mistakes of its decisions will be corrected. As for the West, relations with it can only be restored after the West understands its true place in this world. That is, only as a result of a total change of Western elites. And this event may well be accelerated by the inevitable outcome of the conflict in Ukraine, into which the elites of the collective West have integrated themselves in such a way that now there is no visible compromise way out of the current situation.