North Korea has deployed a contingent of troops to Russia in support of Russia's war in Ukraine —the latest development in intensified cooperation between the two countries since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The Kremlin is l
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My friends, sometimes the most difficult thing about fighting evil is realizing that it actually exists, and then unambiguously and forcefully calling it what it is.
History shows time and time again that one of evils greatest strengths is its ability to disguise itself as good, or at least a temporary necessity, until that last fatal moment when its revelation becomes clear, indisputable, and inescapable.
So today let us take a clear and unadulterated look into the mirror at ourselves.
Just six years ago we were one of the most respected and admired defenders of democracy and human rights in history. Respected not only by our friends, but even begrudgingly by most of our enemies. In fact, even the fantastic power of our military paled in comparison to the overwhelming might of our moral authority.
Today we are a nation that operates secret prisons occupied by anonymous inmates, illegally abducted and held indefinitely without charge or representation. We are guilty of torture. We are guilty of murder. We are guilty of preemptive war of conquest. We are guilty of the wholesale surveillance of our population, suppressing all hope of privacy and free dissent. And we are guilty of disgracing our nation through the abandonment of even our most basic precepts of morality.
If this is not evil then nothing we have ever fought against is evil, and nothing we have ever fought for is good."
SearingTruth, A Future of the Brave, 2005
Those North Korean soldiers surrender at a very high rate because of hunger, lack of training, and insufficient ammo & equipment.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/north-korea-ukraine-soldiers-defectors-russia-rcna187547
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/32967302/captured-korean-soldier-sausage-ukraine-romance-film/
https://www.voanews.com/a/n-koreans-high-casualties-in-ukraine-blamed-on-inexperience/7983971.html
@georgetakei is always well researched. He's never been incorrect in any of his posts, ever.
I agree completely with his post.
(I just add additional info occasionally to emphasize his points, as I do with others)
Ukraine's problem is that Selenskyj may be right, Macron may be right, but as long as all Republicans seem to think that Trump is right and Putin is not the bad guy here, (my guess is, because this putain and his oligarch friends payed them a lot 💰💰for the last years and helped MAGA during their campaigns) Ukraine lacks sufficient help.
I guess for the EU it is not possible to say: "Never mind, Donald, we, the EU pay these 1 billion you don't want to pay for and send even more"
Macron might acknowledge that the Normandy Format (Germany and France) was an attempt to prevent all this catastrophe, but was rejected by Ukraine. (Yes, Russia shd not have invaded).
Ukraine was under Russia's influence for decades. Just as the people showed interest in free speech, democracy (not fake democracy under Russia's hand) and in leaning towards the EU, Putin invaded in 2014. He begun war a decade ago. So we see he will not stop trying.
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