When the country with the largest land mass, and fourth largest population on the world, needs help from a hermit peninsula with 1800s level of industrialization.
Well they need help from China, but they aren't as prepared to lend military assistance as Russia thought they would be.
So they've had to turn to the likes of Iran and North Korea.
Getting a strong feeling China will actually be the supplier rather than NK. They're just a front, I'm guessing.
Why would China need a proxy. They're already sanctioned by the US government so there isn't really any reason to play coy
US sanctions against China are absolutely minimal. There is a lot of room to escalate. But apart from that, I don't think that's what's happening. NK has nothing but weapons. Old and shitty ones, sure. But most of them can explode.
This person geopolitics
NK probably has a better military than Russia, and Putin wants it
"Fighting imperialism"... while trying to take over a sovereign country.
Some days I wish we could harness dissonance for power. We wouldn't need any other sources in the world.
God if that were the case, the maga crowd could supply power for generations.
I don't think it's cognitive dissonance if you don't believe it, so I think this just counts as flagrant bullshit.
What about the dissonance it causes the rest of us?
We will fight imperialism together."
... Then they started swinging at each other. The end.
Read: "We will fight, Imperialism together."
Ah, the Lionel Hutz maneuver.
"Together?" said Jong Un, lightly biting his lower lip. Vladimir scooped Jong Un up in his strong, authoritarian arm, and whispered in his ear, "Da, sweet Jong Un. Together..."
The fan fiction we didn't know we need
u/demetri is one of the few things I really do miss from reddit
Fight imperialism huh? Cool, so I guess Russia will immediately withdraw from Ukraine, return their land, and genuinely try to make reparations for all the people they murdered, right?
No, of course not, silly. Imperialism is only when someone else doing it. And it does not matter what “it” is.
This reads like a headline from The Onion.
Is he not collapsing the Russian empire fast enough by himself? Does he need North Korea to nuke Saint Petersburg or something?
The North Korean military are barely a threat to North Korea I'm not sure what aid they can provide.
Imported cheese.
Kim Jong Un: shakes hands with Putin, who is an imperialist
How dare you accuse the Great Marxist Monarch of being a lying hypocrite.
Am I the only one who is really confused about the context of “imperialism” in the headline?
Just like rightists everywhere. Every accusation is just projection of their own guilt.
"Imperialism" is when the west does things
NK gonna send their troops to Ukraine.
Meh, not like they're fed anyways lmao
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Accompanied by top military brass and senior government figures, Kim Jong Un implied to the Russian president he supported Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
The pair visited a rocket assembly and launch site, known as the Vostochny Cosmodrome, with the Russian leader promising to help North Korea build satellites.
Speaking to Euronews in September, Fyodor Tertitskiy, an expert in North Korean history and military, was skeptical a meaningful deal could be struck since much depends on whether China approves.
He also claimed Pyongyang has not seen any economic wins from supporting Moscow - with an "actual trade balance of zero" between the two in 2022 - despite North Korea publically backing the Ukraine invasion and annexation of Crimea.
Having left Pyongyang on Sunday evening aboard a bulletproof train, Kim's visit to Russia was his first trip abroad since the start of the COVID pandemic.
It also has the production lines and personnel to produce more at scale," said Siemon Wezeman of the Stockholm International Peace Research Insitute (SIPRI) in a statement sent to Euronews.
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I guess the friendship with china wasn't unlimited enough, now friendship extends to their irresponsible little cousin who constantly pees in the trashcan.
LOL. Blyat is actively trying to rebuild an empire.
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