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2022-08-06 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Desperate Putin 'is considering turning to Kim Jong Un for help in Ukraine and offering energy and grain in return for 100,000 soldiers', Russian reports claim
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • N. Korea made it clear it is willing to assist in Russia's war, news agency reported

  • This would include providing a vast fighting force - 100,000 soldiers - and builders to repair damage
    “If you feed them, they’re yours for as long as needed. We need to free up funds for more of Pudge’s our beloved Fearless Leader’s special cognac.”
  • In return, it said grain and energy would be supplied to Kim's stricken economy

  • Reacting, reserve colonel Igor Korotchenko told Russian state TV: 'We shouldn't be shy in accepting the hand extended to us by Kim Jong-un.'

  • Russia and North Korea have shared close ties dating back to 1948, when Soviet Union became first country to recognise DPRK. Putin and Kim last met in 2019
They would be deployed to the forces of the separatist pro-Putin Donetsk People's Republic [DPR] and Luhansk People's Republic [LPR], both of which Kim has recently recognised as independent countries.

'If North Korean volunteers with their artillery systems, wealth of experience with counter battery warfare and large calibre multiple launch rocket systems, made in North Korea, want to participate in the conflict, well let's give the green light to their volunteer impulse.'

He said: 'If North Korea expresses a desire to meet its international duty to fight against Ukrainian fascism, we should let them.' It was the 'sovereign right of the DPR and LPR to sign the relevant agreements,' he said.

Russia has repeatedly claimed Ukraine is a 'fascist' country as one of its many ways to attempt to justify Putin's brutal invasion, that has killed thousands of civilians and caused millions of people to flee their homes.

Korotchenko is known for his fierce pro-Putin rhetoric.

Russians should feel 'no shame' of its ambition of obliterating Ukraine as an independent state, he also said recently.

Such an objective was 'absolutely healthy', he said.

'It was said here that Russia is trying to wipe Ukraine off the geopolitical map of the world,' he said. 'It isn't quite that. We are wiping an anti-Russia project off the geopolitical map of the world…'

Ukraine had 'never existed' as a truly independent state in the past, he falsely claimed. 'It is an artificial 'formation' which was born thanks to the national policy conducted after 1917 by the Bolsheviks,' he said.

But now it had become 'a springboard for a strike against Russia'.

Its political elite 'have no right to exist from the point of national interests of our country'.

The West 'will not be able to influence the decisiveness of the leadership of our country and our people to make it so that such a threat from the territory now called Ukraine never exists.'
Posted by Skidmark 2022-08-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top
 File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats 

#1 lulz
Posted by mossomo 2022-08-06 00:23||   2022-08-06 00:23|| Front Page Top

#2 If Putin takes the norks it will show weakness.
Posted by Xyz 2022-08-06 00:30||   2022-08-06 00:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Close support already exists between these two especially after Pelosi's stunt. Close behind her stunt Volodymyr has asked China to have Russia back down. Western media in chronic damage control mode. Even Denmark now is drawn towards Russia and I have read the Swiss and Finland have buyers remorse.The weakness of the EU and USA is obvious to most nations of the world. Inflation in UK, USA and Germany is historic. The leadership of Western nations is the worst I have ever seen. Desperate hardly. He plays this game well. Kim's offer will be accepted. Look what he offers Putin. The unification of the Asian world only gets stronger. Diplomats and bureaucrats will not make the world safer or stronger. Ability, will and strength are the qualities needed now. China let Pelosi go back because they knew she would do more damage here. I expect Biden will do everything wrong as he is now(80,000 IRS agents; what a joke, nobody wants to work). My historic rant for the day.
Posted by Dale 2022-08-06 06:13||   2022-08-06 06:13|| Front Page Top

#4 I think histrionic is the word you were looking for...
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-08-06 07:18||   2022-08-06 07:18|| Front Page Top

#5 Who here thinks Putin would allow 100,00 well armed norks, loyal to China, 500 miles from Moscow?
You can check them out, but they'll never leave.
Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2022-08-06 07:19||   2022-08-06 07:19|| Front Page Top

#6 Putin miscalculated. The old saying is, "Everything you do to save a recipe after it's ruined just makes it worse."
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-08-06 07:22||   2022-08-06 07:22|| Front Page Top

#7 histrionic; no, just venting.
Posted by Dale 2022-08-06 07:37||   2022-08-06 07:37|| Front Page Top

#8 Ah! So instead of a bridge, they'll just fill rivers with North Korean corpses!
Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-08-06 07:59||   2022-08-06 07:59|| Front Page Top

#9 Nothing says better a better evaluation than Go-No Go testing. Putin has found out the hard way and, unfortunately, for the grunts on the ground what the cost is. Can Kim afford to show the same level of military effectiveness that a real life (and death) demands. If they fail as the Russians have their threat posture evaporates. Who you going to send? Your palace guard or the ranks? Who will validate your military effectiveness best? Can you afford to lose your untested formations against people who've already been through Darwin's environment for many months. Remember your military organization follows the Soviet/Russian model not the Western.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-08-06 08:10||   2022-08-06 08:10|| Front Page Top

#10 Reality has nothing to do with the way Kim thinks.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-08-06 08:14||   2022-08-06 08:14|| Front Page Top

#11 Norks drift over into Poland. Vlad sez, "hey wudn't us."
Posted by Besoeker 2022-08-06 08:19||   2022-08-06 08:19|| Front Page Top

#12 #3 Excellent stenography of the Kremlin line.
Posted by Nero 2022-08-06 09:44||   2022-08-06 09:44|| Front Page Top

#13  Norks drift over into Poland.

If this results in kimchi pirogis, is it really such a bad thing?
Posted by SteveS 2022-08-06 10:16||   2022-08-06 10:16|| Front Page Top

#14 Go-No Go testing

Definition, please.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-08-06 10:17||   2022-08-06 10:17|| Front Page Top

#15 If this results in kimchi pirogis, is it really such a bad thing?

Other than some seasonings, still not sure the difference between sauerkraut and kimchi.

I'll get a craving for either and binge. Family and I play a game of Monopoly to determine who sleeps outside.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-08-06 10:26||   2022-08-06 10:26|| Front Page Top

#16 Proper kimchi is fermented, which sauer kraut is not.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-08-06 11:03||   2022-08-06 11:03|| Front Page Top

#17 Sauerkraut is also fermented, M. Basic recipe
Posted by trailing wife 2022-08-06 13:51||   2022-08-06 13:51|| Front Page Top

#18 #14 back in the 'old' Army, one form of testing whether troops retained the information they had received instruction in was to spend a morning or afternoon session running a route with stations/tables. Each station had evaluators and applicable gear/materials. The troop had to run to each station, present his sheet and then take a test. It could be computations, it could be equipment stripping and reassembly, it be setting up equipment that would then operate, and etc. It was timed both in execution of tasks but also the run overall. At each station you got a rating of Go (successful) or No-Go (unsuccessful). Failure in peacetime usually involved retraining classes usually at the price of the troop's 'free time', like Saturday or Sunday and a repeat of the test shortly there after. In war, it may well mean a body bag.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-08-06 15:35||   2022-08-06 15:35|| Front Page Top

#19 I didn't know sauerkraut was fermented. Now I know. Thanks, TW. What I do know is everyone expects me to make two pork roasts on New Years Day, one with sauerkraut, one with kimchi.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-08-06 16:55||   2022-08-06 16:55|| Front Page Top

#20 Sauerkraut was a keystone in the age of sail.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-08-06 19:41||   2022-08-06 19:41|| Front Page Top

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