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North Korean troops set to join Russian army as Pyongyang ‘fully enters’ war
(www.telegraph.co.uk)
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I mean why wouldn't they?
Koreans have no beef with Ukraine. They're fighting in a war for a paycheck.
But they're probably seeing wartorn Ukraine, with bombed out buildings and roads, and going, "Well shit this place looks better than home" and leaving.
Fighting in war for paycheck
Kim doesn't operate that way, he's got of a 'don't die or I'll kill your family and put the relatives in jail' energy
Any North Korean soldiers captured should be held prisoner in some Scandinavian prison and fed nothing but the most decadent and tasty foods. Then when the war is over send them back to NK fatter than Kim Jon Un. That would be a real power play.
You can't serve Scandinavian food to prisonners it is forbidden by the Geneva convention.
You're thinking of Scandinavian regional delicacies and certain seasonal special dishes, none of which I've ever had the misfortune of smelling, and serving those to prisoners does sound pretty inhumane. All Scandinavian food outside of those that I I've tried or heard of tasted or sounded delicious.
If meatballs and mashed potatoes with lingonberry sauce are against the Geneva convention it's probably time we had on Oslo convention.
Smorgasbord all day every day would be Tortute!
There's more to Scandinavian food than lutefisk, y'know.
Married into a Scandinavian family. Scandinavian baked goods are amazing.
Because it causes Stockholm syndrome?
I was kind of on board with that idea, but now i'm100% on board
Soooo… is it a world war yet?
No, but the anthems are playing and the players are doing a warm up.
Captain Blackadder : You see, Baldrick, in order to prevent war in Europe, two superblocs developed: us, the French and the Russians on one side, and the Germans and Austro-Hungary on the other. The idea was to have two vast opposing armies, each acting as the other's deterrent. That way there could never be a war.
Private Baldrick : But, this is a sort of a war, isn't it, sir?
Captain Blackadder : Yes, that's right. You see, there was a tiny flaw in the plan.
Private Baldrick : What was that, sir?
Captain Blackadder : It was bollocks.
Concepts of a world war.
World special military operation
No, but getting there.
World scuffle
What Russia likes about North Korean Soldiers in Ukraine: Manpower!
What North Korea likes about North Korean Soldiers in Ukraine: Money!
What North Korean Soldiers like about North Korean Soldiers in Ukraine: Freedom!
You can tell Russia's desperate because they've got the North Koreans involved.
With the current attrition rate of Russian forces, these 3K troops will likely be expended in ~2.3 days..
The great Russian army. The great russian army with the best weapons and tanks and soldiers.
What a paper tiger.
BTW it's rumored that they are running out of both tanks and bmps. If trump doesn't win (if he does, it will just take longer) the whole russia will collapse like the soviet union did in 1991. The ruble is already in free fall, inflation at 20%, the economy is overheating and fewer and fewer young people left to work or be killed.
I just hope it crumbles as soon as possible but I guess this insane war has to drag on for some 6 months to a year.
I mean you list all of that and ignore the biggest elephant in the room. 40% GDP spent on the war.
Or more.
Just to be clear, the war economy will hasten the downfall of Russia (they no longer publish inflation numbers, rumours are they are way over 20% maybe even at 40%. The central bank is already lending at 19% which is crazy) but it won't help much with tanks and btrs, as the vast majority of the "new" ones are refurbished ones pulled out from long time storage, and even the "bad" ones are drying up, it's impossible to know but it could be the end of both tanks & btrs this month or next month or so.
Russia builds just a handfull (less than 10) every month, they almost lose that many every day.
BTW it’s rumored that they are running out of both tanks and bmps.
I feel like people have been saying this for about 2 years. We should believe it when we see it.
We do see it lol. There are people who get satellite photos of tankyards in Russia. They pay Google to take a new photo over a specific base, count the tanks, armored vehicles and trucks, and make a youtube video about it. Russia is losing an enormous amounts of tanks. They can't retrofit enough of the old stock to keep up with the losses, let alone produce new tanks.
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Dictatorships can take a lot of abuse before falling apart. Look at North Korea. People are starving and still that fuckers in power.
Dictatorships only stand because of the military. The military which is currently being slaughtered en masse in a war they didn't need. We are one week "where decades happen" away from Russia colapsing. Shit like Prigozin, like Kadyrov launching a blood feud, etc.
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What a great opportunity for those north Koreans to defect to Europe
Lmao, I just saw an article on here about NK soldiers abandoning the front lines. That didn't last long
Why fight die for some other country's pointless war? If I was there, I'd leave, too.
I'd also encourage any US troops who are sent off to fight for Israel in the future to do the same lol.
Because your family back home will be in for it.
Ah but Russia isn't keeping track of its own losses anyway, easy to slip away and they assume you're dead.
Because someone's watching you with a gun to your head. Deserting is hard
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