Originally Posted by
FUMR
Depends largely on what Vietnam think of Putin and Russia. I remember many occasions when western leaders "welcomed" rogue leaders to their country. For Putin it's all show to boost his now massively depleted ego.
The relationship of Viet-Nam with other countries is a fascinating study of a country that has pride in being an independent state. I would imagine that Vlad wasted the remaining LLPs on his ride to drop into Hanoi.
The Viet constitution that was introduced by HCM is a veritable copy & paste of the US Constitution... and they appear to be able to read it slightly better than many in the US Capitol. VN never sat well with the other communist block countries, HCM was after aid from the US against the continued colonial land grab of France at the end of Round II, and that sadly led to the 30,000 days of sadness and a lot of trauma. VN has nothing much to gain from Russia, they are an energy exporting nation, they have issues with China's continuing lunacy in the SCS and arbitrary land grabs that Russia has zero leverage to assist with, Russia is in fact also likely to be conceding turf to China which is around 200 years late (not an Alaskan or Louisiana land sale like event).
VN is a commercially oriented nation of entrepreneurs, and it prefers development towards a western like system rather than the 16th century bog dwelling desires of the Kremlin which looks cck fondly to the age of empires pre sanitation, to which Vlad has at least assisted Russia achieving a similar sanitary standard as they had in the dark ages, a little less in the land grab departments.
Doubt that Vlad has anything that interests VN. The news this week that the MYS PM suggests joining BRIC is of greater curiosity, something must be off in the rendang there, or too much durian in the air. If anyone can explain how that assists MYS in any manner please PM me (my MYS friends are just shaking their heads in confusion on that one).
NK signing a pact with the Tzar will open up responses from the Blue House in Seoul and the National Diet in Tokyo, and apart from increasing the amount of mud churning that will occur in the criminally occupied lands in eastern Ukraine, will hasten the next collapse of NK. NK is not a friend of China, and China has its own manner of dealing with the problem child of its creation on its border, while dealing with a major Japan 80's style bubble burst in progress.
Not dull, but NK is no winner in this and Vlad doesn't delay the inevitable collapse of the RF by more than minutes by gaining rusty timex offerings from Kim's house of ill repute.
Not dull at all.