Terrific: Russians step up economic activity with North Korea to stymie U.S. sanction efforts

I don't believe it. If war breaks out, Eussia and China will support the United States against North Korea. 100% sure.

I think this may have some bearing on "Calm before the storm"

Sorry, I mean Russia.

The United States that broke the USSR economically?

Have you studied the subject a little? Their economic calculation was completely wrong. In fact what the United States did was HELP the USSR regime have a survival for long time.

There is no possibility that a market fully regulated by the State will function. Who decides how the market should work is the market itself.

Without taking into account the degree of corruption in Russia during the USSR regime. In fact, it is common practice the high degree of corruption in governments that the state has a high degree of intervention in the economy.

And when the Soviet Union collapsed several Russian billionaires emerged overnight. How is this possible in a regime where there is theoretically no private property?

In fact, the USSR was destroyed by its own elite that wanted to become bourgeosie.

Exactly.

Come on man you clearly have no idea what you are talking about.First thing that struck me was that you cant even make the difference between USSR and post-soviet Russia. When Boris Yeltsin took power Russia was flooded with "economical advisors" from the US who "helped" him divide the government owned large industrial companies between few chosen people. And this is how the filthy rich oligarchs were born, people like Hodorkovsky, Berezovski and so on.... What i am trying to say is that you are poorly informed and i should ask you "Have you studied the subject a little?" If people like Dan Calabrese (the author of the article "Terrific: Russians step up economic activity with North Korea to stymie U.S. sanction efforts") are your source of infromation, that explains alot, the guy writes fiction novels - christian spiritual warfare novels...he makes up shit for living...What if L.Ron Hubbard instead of scientology crated christianity, would you be a christian now knowing the background of your prophet?

And do you really believe they were no longer the "owners" before that?

Seems fair to me.