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[–] Andrzej3K@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

who North Korea probably still thinks is a world superpower

It's shit like this that really gets me. As if North Korea is some guy and not a whole ass country with diplomats, geopolitical analysts etc

[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

It's racism.

[–] AmericaDeserved711@hexbear.net 49 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

so Russia is not a "world superpower" but can get all these other countries to do their bidding at the drop of a hat. which is it?

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 34 points 2 days ago

The enemy is both too strong and too weak scared-fash

[–] Pentacat@hexbear.net 22 points 2 days ago

Americans are unfamiliar with “soft power.” For obvious reasons.

[–] ComradeMonotreme@hexbear.net 47 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Who North Korea probably still thinks is a world super-power

This is just shitty world-building. Even if you believe North Korea is deeply weird prison country where people eat rats that eat people and push trains, the leadership knows what's going on in the world.

[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Any veil of intelligence this guy tried presenting went out the window with that comment.

Fifth grade level political analysis in a lib school

[–] ComradeMonotreme@hexbear.net 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I remember as a kid when Saddam Hussein was bad, one of the propaganda things about him was in private he'd wear a cowboy hat and watch US movies. Like that's how they need to Portray Kim Jong-Un. Slipping out of his leader's uniform to put on baggy blue jeans and fire up MTV etc

[–] TechnoUnionTypeBeat@hexbear.net 37 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This is unfortunately not a parody. I know a significant amount of people who truly, deeply believe this. They truly believe that Russia is simultaneously the puppetmaster behind all the world's evil and suffering and yet so incompetent as to be a failing state and laughing stock

Plenty of people I know personally believe Russia actually ordered the attacks on Israel specifically to distract the US and redirect weaponry from Ukraine to Israel

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 23 points 2 days ago

"The enemy is both too strong and too weak."

You've been talking to ur-fascists. hitler-detector

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 31 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Same people that think Russia started the refugee crisis so Europeans could be racist and vote for the far-right.

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

Same people that think the country with the most nukes somehow also has not been able to maintain them meanwhile our nuclear infrastructure still relies on these

[–] Maturin@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago

The Russians shit my pants!

[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 46 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Liberal fanfiction, this is idealism in action.

Side note, for any DPRK-heads, is there actual risk of war with ROK? Seems to me DPRK is hunkering down after giving up on reconcilliation, not that they are escalating, it's my understanding that neither side wants war.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They're responding to a drone dropping propaganda on them last I heard and they blew up a roadway leading south. So there goes any real talks for now I'd imagine. Still SK are bastards for trying what they did.

[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 27 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

They've also dissolved peace talk committees, to my knowledge, and are severing diplomatic ties. This to me seems more like hunkering down, you'd figure they would keep talks open during wartime as the goal would be to have favorable surrender conditions for the ROK to the DPRK. Just my uninformed guess, that's why I am asking if anyone knows more.

[–] combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Russia did this invasion to influence an election halfway around the world two years later

galaxy-brain

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago

Putin is just playing 18d chess

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 43 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Russia.

Russia invaded Ukraine blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, blah blah blah/blah blah blah blah blah. Blah, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah/blah, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah- blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.

Blah blah, blah blah blah (blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah) blah're blah blah blah blah blah blah- blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.

Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah's blah blah and sow chaos in hopes of getting Trump elected.

Jonestown_Juice comments on North Korea Claims Mobilisation of 1.4 Million Youth for "Holy War"

[–] mushroom@hexbear.net 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

1000+ upvotes, no serious pushback

agony-shivering

i forget sometimes that we are one of the only places on the internet that has a grounded view of world affairs

[–] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 2 points 21 hours ago

The internet would be completely intolerable without this place. Libs' brains are totally cooked. 24/7 news has destroyed critical thinking.

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[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 37 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They just write little Tom Clancy stories in their heads

[–] Riffraffintheroom@hexbear.net 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I was just about to say that this is like Tom Clancy but less grounded.

[–] SSJ3Marx@hexbear.net 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In Chaos Theory North Korea's aggression is entirely the result of Japanese fascists who want to remilitarize hacking their missile systems with the help of an American military contractor who wants to start a regional war for profit, so maybe they should re-read their source material.

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[–] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

When I was in grade school I read a lot of Tom Clancy and spoiled the ending of debt of honour to my grade 5 teacher

I think he was part mad because I spoiled the ending and part mad that he was reading the same geopolitical thrillers as a 10 year old

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago

He was right to be embarrassed

[–] Dr_Gabriel_Aby@hexbear.net 33 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Pretty awesome if Putin pulled this off. Would be the largest strategic victory for a US enemy since Osama Bin Laden made the empire kill itself with 9/11

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 21 points 2 days ago

It really is the lib version of chuds believing China sent the hurricane.

[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 17 points 2 days ago

Massive dub for the puppetmaster

[–] Tommasi@hexbear.net 36 points 2 days ago

Pretty sure this is about an average amount of detachment from reality for a worldnews poster

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 30 points 2 days ago

This is What Radio Free Asia Actually Believes.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The back of the random strategy game box you pick up and read at the local video game store in 2002:

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 27 points 2 days ago

The News has such a toxic fanbase, they'll post their fics anywhere but Ao3

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 25 points 2 days ago

Pretty funny that someone with the username Jonestown_Juice is peddling Jim Jones style wackadoo theory

[–] tripartitegraph@hexbear.net 21 points 2 days ago

Some days I kinda wish I were this stupid. Life would be a lot simpler if it obeyed baby-brain lib logic

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is just liberal Qanon but for geopolitics.

[–] heggs_bayer@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 9 points 2 days ago

I forgot we had a word for that already

[–] GaveUp@hexbear.net 16 points 2 days ago

Okay wait but Putin's birthday also being October 7 is some real 👁️ shit though

[–] miz@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago

reality has not been a good partner for a long time now, and it's time to break up

[–] Lurker123@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago

Well thank you for the replies. Suffice it to say, I am flabbergasted.

[–] heggs_bayer@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago
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