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Interesting assessment of the war
You'd have to wonder if this might be the first time Putin gets to hear the unvarnished truth about the situation on the frontline.
Kim: "Jaysus, Vlad, you're in a right feckin' mess, aren't yeh!"
Vlad: "Wha'? Sure aren't we making progress on all vectors."
Kim: "Yeah, right. Yeh might want to try browsing the Net from a non-Kremlin IP address."
This Russia -NK pact will put noses out of joint in Seoul, also Tokyo and possibly even Beijing.
If NK support Russian atrocities, then you can be sure Russia will row in behind any aggression from NK.
If South Korea and Japan respond to the heightened threat by ramping up their military, along with the US or other Asian partners, surely this is exactly what China does not want ?
That’s an interesting point, South Korea up to now mostly stayed out of this war, but now they might find a home for hundreds of tanks and all that ammo their industry which never switched to peace time footing due to still being technically at war will find its way to Ukraine
South Korean industrial capacity is several times of North Korea and then there’s Japan…
Nobody in South Korea wants Russian hypersonic missiles, chemicals weapons, nukes or whatever other technology making their way to NK.
They are now incentivized to support Ukraine with the attrition of the Russian military.
Bloodthirsty media commentators have no issue with recent beheadings
No wonder Putin brought him a Russian car
Kim should have chatted with Armenians first and ask about their defence assurances from Russia
I don’t see how South Korea and Japan would just sit back now
No he didnt.. thats a Mercedes-Benz, top of the range imousine .. How the two most virulent anti-western society can bring themselves to be carried in the epitome of western decadence, is one for the books..
TORA TORA TORA… in the other direction
Thought he was being ironic.
Donjoe mentioned Putin brought Kim a Russian car, which he did as a gift. Russia do make a car that looks like an MB call a ZIL, but it was an MB Limousine that they were parading around in and not Putin's gift. Maybe Kim will ferry Putin back to the airport in the Zil? Or maybe not, at least until Kim has his anti-bugging team check it out?
For all the jokes and memes, a more serious analysis of this infernal pact and how it plays into broader geopolitical issues is worth considering:
At a bare minimum, it allows Putin to keep prosecuting the war and killing Ukrainians in the short to medium term
Is it lack of shame, lack of self awareness, or just sheer cynicism, as in "we hate you and resent you and will do everything we can to weaken you, but we'll still take the best you have to offer"?
That last bit occurred to me too :-)
A pair of scorpions.(and Putin could be infiltrated too?)
All those "NATO is encircling Russia" Clare Daly types we've seen pass through here must be stricken with worry with the news that Russia has moved away over 80% of it's troops from the Finnish border. Leaving Finland open to invade.. any day now..
If North Korea and Russia sign a friendship treaty, does it mean Russia will start threatening NK with nukes like they do with all their other "friends"?
so this should put an end to endless back and forth about Ukrainians “not wanting defend their country”
Well…at least that’s another thing they have in common with another prominent Mercedes-Benz owner…Adolf Hitler
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_770?wprov=sfti1
Same old same old.
I got the impression than neither Kim or Putin are sufficiently fluid in each others language. Because when Putin had his ‘first few Words’ with Kim - after having stepped off the plane two individuals ‘rushed ‘ towards them and both looked towards these individuals - during the initial ‘chats ’ while standing on the tarmac.
A midget KGB man who has robbed Russian people blind meets an obese man child who inflicts famine on his people whilst spending 25% of GDP on military.
Reminds me of this obscure story
must make things awkward with Chinese who now own Volvo
Everything that Putin does is taken from Hitler's playbook, literally everything. From the ZZ insignia, to the Children's indoctrination in Nazi ways in kindergarten, which is about as low as its possible to get. All from Adolf.
Basically, it's a case of " Don't do as we do, do as we say!" But how it actually works out is, only the best of the best is good enough for us, and we mean to have the best of the best. Its our right.
Anyone not familiar with Paddy Hitler, here you go https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stuart-Houston
(I wonder if there's a Paddy Putin somewhere?)
LOL, with the comings and goings of that crowd, you wouldn't know who was who…a DNA sequencing of the whole family tree would throw up some very strange links…
Same old, same old…..grand theft auto. And I'd hazard a bet that those Volvos are still in top condition, and stored away someplace, to be taken out only for special occasions.
Can you feel the love in that room? They can't wait to drink that down. I'm sure they were crawling down main street wearing traffic cones at 3 am.
I note that Putin didn't drink it! Looked at it with suspicion..
