Analysis: Putin may need arms from North Korea’s Kim, but what is he willing to give in return? | CNN
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As Russian President Vladimir Putin makes his first visit to North Korea in more than two decades this week, his focus is widely seen to be on securing ongoing support from the hermit nation for his grinding war in Ukraine.
  • Tunnelvision [they/them]
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    15 days ago

    The DPRK is unironically the unknown threat that the USA doesn’t want the public to really be aware of. All of the outrageous claims made about the DPRK is because America would not be able to defeat them in open combat.

    • Sephitard9001 [he/him]
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      15 days ago

      What makes you say this? Not doubting I'm just unsure how that would go either way tbh. I don't have the confidence to say that.

      • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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        15 days ago

        They couldn't defeat them the first time around and they hadn't had decades to stockpile munitions back then. You can't defeat a country with air power, you can only destroy it, and the west pretty demonstrably only has air power.

  • asg101 [none/use name, comrade/them]
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    15 days ago

    If communism was such a fundamentally inferior system, why did the capitalists have to go into trillions of dollars of debt to stop it?