Russia's foreign minister warns Tillerson: New North Korea sanctions could be 'dangerous'

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico




By LOUIS NELSON 08/31/2017 07:54 AM EDT

New sanctions against North Korea could prove “dangerous,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in a phone call Wednesday night.

Details of the call were reported by The Associated Press and based on a readout of the call distributed by the Russian foreign ministry. As of early Thursday morning, the State Department had not released its own readout.

The call followed a declaration earlier Wednesday from President Donald Trump that “the U.S. has been talking to North Korea, and paying them extortion money, for 25 years. Talking is not the answer!”

North Korea has ramped up its aggression in recent months, launching multiple ballistic missile tests, including some that could conceivably strike the continental U.S. Trump, who has sworn never to allow North Korea to obtain a nuclear weapon capable of striking the U.S., threatened the repressive nation earlier this month with “fire and fury like the world has never seen.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/31/sergey-lavrov-rex-tillerson-north-korea-sanctions-242204

[DK504]

1. So Tillerson has gotten his marching orders from Putin.

And they Russians seem to forget no one makes any money with nuclear war. What a bunch of idiots.

[Turbineguy]

2. Like the sanctions

on Japan that led to the attack on Pearl Harbor?

[christx30]

4. And why were those sanctions put on Japan?

Because they were fighting an imperialist war in China, slaughtering millions of people. Remember the Rape of Nanking, where Japanese soldiers killed between 50,000 to 300,000 people in one city?

[Turbineguy]

5. Well, getting Li'l Kim

to nuke US territory would take pressure off the Russia scandal.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. We're being dictated to because our leadership is compromised and weak

kompromat

We have abandoned our values, and are not standing up for ourselves politically or internationally

Great kingdoms have fallen or been conquered when puppets were installed

Europe over the last 2 millennia was overrun by Celts, Vikings, Saracens, Arabs

Various countries turned to Franks and Normans, or Germanic princes to stablize and rule

Who can we turn to? Who is large enough to save us? Why would they?