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Maybe I’m out of the loop, but wasn’t that debunked? Or at least there was never any concrete evidence that was true? Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong though. I haven’t been following the Ukraine war super closely.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_involvement_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine
Definitely an interesting story. I guess Russia and Korea view NATO as their common enemy. So it makes some sense to me even if it seems over the top on paper.
I'm reasonably confident they aren't doing out of some solidarity against the west. NK is getting knowledge of weapons/missile research, and probably some money and other resources. Russia is getting soldiers they don't care about to throw at Ukraine to satisfy Putin's ego project of "restoring the borders of the USSR." They don't care what the west is doing. That's just an enemy they can point the populace against. It's about power and resources.
There’s some logic to that for sure.
Quick question. If Russia invaded Ukraine to prevent NATO expansion, why are there now two more countries in NATO than before the invasion? Is NATO encircling Russia like the tankies say, or are Russia's neighbors running for any protection from Russian imperialism that they can get?
Who knows for sure. I don’t think the war has gone completely Russia’s way. So I guess maybe both are true.
So the nearby countries have no reason to seek security guarantees??
Last thing, Google the Budapest memorandum.
I didn’t say that. Honestly, I’m not an expert on this war at all. I just try to look at things through the perspective of other countries. The US and NATO have done plenty of dirtbag things over the years. In particular to Korea who doesn’t have nearly the resources that Russia has. I don’t feel like there’s any good or bad guys here. Everyone has blood on their hands. Thanks, I’ll look into that later. I just woke up.
You and I both know you're not going to get a real answer to that.