The U.S. will have difficulty intervening in an arms deal between two of its rivals, former U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper told Newsweek.
on Monday that he doesn't view any sort of weapons exchange as having a"great deal of significance," referring to both Putin and Kim as"desperate leaders of the world's most noted pariah states."
Essentially, the longer it lasts, the better the chance that fatigue may set in among Ukraine's allies in terms of providing additional money and materials. The Ukrainian government also doesn't have much pull in terms of interrupting any Putin-Kim negotiations, he added, due to the country's lack of reach compared to the U.S. andJenny Town, a senior fellow at the Stimson Center think tank and the director of Stimson's 38 North Program that analyzes North Korea, toldthat she agreed with Esper's perspective on the U.S.' inability to likely impact any arm negotiations between its two rival countries.
"Improving relations with North Korea might create a wedge between Pyongyang and Moscow, or at least not push Pyongyang into Moscow's arms," Aum said.
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