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Michiel Nijk's avatar

This smells of desperation if ever something did. N Korea, China and Iran, they realize they're all in the same boat. If Russia goes down, they too can be picked off by the West one by one.

30.000 N Korean soldiers won't save Putin. It'll only make the Ukrainain soil more fertile...

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Hans Torvatn's avatar

Desperat, tes, but it will probably still work. At least in the sense that Putin gets troops and workers. But he better be able to control those troops and those workers.

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Hans Torvatn's avatar

North Korean workers and soldiers are totally expendable for Kim as well. I am wondering however what South Korea is doing. At the moment Kim is building a battle hardened technologically savage army across their borders. They, of all people needs to counter this.

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Doug Hiller's avatar

Certainly hoping Ukraine can scale up production of Neptune, Sapsan missiles and Palianytsia drones quickly. It seems that adding a good dose of stealth technology to deep strike ordnance would increase the rate of penetrating Russia’s defenses.

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WW2 MATTERS's avatar

Wow another brilliant work by Wes

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marcus816's avatar

Help if you can.

https://support.whitestork.us/donation?vmd=truef

Send a battlefield first aid kit to Ukraine and more.

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SandraLea's avatar

I am so very angry at the US. This war could be over in a day but we apparently don’t want it over. What are Trump/republicans and democrat leadership getting from a prolonged war?

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Roger Corbett's avatar

The Yelabuga drone factory has been hit by Ukraine before. So... wait till the N. Korean workers are settled in and comfortable, find out where they are quartered, then send in the drones.

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Chris Fehr's avatar

It's all too easy to say from the comfort of my key board but the west needs to be showing they are serious by mobilizing more soldiers towards Ukraine.

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Jack Carter's avatar

Hit that drone factory again and again.

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Luke Ringlein's avatar

The labor pipeline is wild enough. But the troop deployment makes this more than just wartime convenience; it’s doctrine-building. North Korean troops now return home with live combat experience, and Pyongyang gets to iterate military hardware on an active battlefield. That’s long-term leverage. Curious what it’ll take for Seoul or Tokyo to recalibrate their own force structure in response.

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Roger Corbett's avatar

Oh dear - troll alert!

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Paul Stone's avatar

I blocked him.

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Wes O'Donnell's avatar

That dude got the banhammer. lol He can no longer see the publication. His comment history showed a cycle of trolling.

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Roger Corbett's avatar

I don't always agree with everything Wes and others say, but for the most part - yes. Also, yes Ukraine has been using NATO weapons for the last three years, but not in sufficient supply or type to make a difference. Mostly because of Obama and Biden's reticence, and now because of Trump's kowtowing to Putin.

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Wes O'Donnell's avatar

He's been banned, Roger. His comment history showed a cycle of trolling.

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