North Korean troops
Introduction – Oct 23, 2024
The writer of the following, David Axe complains that a “line has been crossed” by Russia with its use of North Korean troops in Ukraine.
Crucially, Axe omits to mention that the West crossed that line years ago when it began assisting Ukraine militarily and not just with supplies of arms and munitions.
There have been a number of reports of Western Special Forces being on the front line in Ukraine. Although they are not part of any official deployment, so that if they are killed or wounded in action they are listed as ”ex-Special Forces”.
In fact, Western Special Forces have been on the ground in Ukraine almost from the start of the conflict.
Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov is on record as saying that “hundreds” of U.S. service personnel have been deployed to Ukraine.
Moreover, this doesn’t take into account NATO command centers reportedly taken out by Russian hypersonic missiles. The number of NATO personnel and Western military contractors killed or wounded in one particular strike is estimated to have been ”hundreds”.
Such is the extent of Western military involvement in Ukraine that even the BBC has been forced acknowledge covert Western participation in the conflict.
Apart from omitting any mention of Western involvement in the conflict, Axe also grossly overestimates Russian casualties. His estimate of a thousand Russians “killed and wounded” everyday might make sense if Russia were involved in a headlong rush West but it is not.
Russia is advancing slowly and methodically so as to avoid taking unnecessary risks and minimise casualties.
What follows is corporate media bull!!!!, which is aimed at a) demonizing Russia and b) paradoxically luring readers into complacency about the West’s chances in a military clash with Russia. While these may seem contradictory, together they serve to induce a mindset that will more readily accept war with Russia.
In fact I would not be surprised to find that David Axe works for one of the spook agencies and that he has been tasked with preparing his readers mentally for total war with Russia. Ed.
The war in Ukraine is about to become World War Three
David Axe – The Telegraph Oct 22, 2024
Sometime between October 8 and 13, seven ships from the Russian Pacific Fleet sailed from Chongjin, Hamhung and Musudan in North Korea, to Vladivostok, Russia. Aboard were 1,500 North Korean special forces soldiers.
They’re the vanguard of an initial force of potentially 11,000 North Korean troops that’s set to reinforce Russia’s wider war on Ukraine. And they’re the latest and most chilling reminder that the war isn’t just between Russia and Ukraine.
The line has been crossed and third-party troops will soon be on the ground. Other nations on both sides may follow suit: such action has already been suggested by British and French politicians. It’s now a global war, potentially a world war. It’s clear Russian leaders, and their allies in Iran, North Korea and – to a lesser extent – China understand the stakes. It’s less clear that Ukraine’s allies in Nato understand it.
Those 1,500 North Korean commandos aren’t Pyongyang’s first contribution to Russia’s war effort. North Korea has also sold artillery ammunition, KN-23 ballistic missiles and anti-tank missile vehicles to Russia. Alongside Iran, North Korea is Russia’s industrial backer – and the main reason the Russian armed forces haven’t already run out of critical equipment as their wider war grinds into its 32nd costly month.
But in sending men in addition to weapons, Pyongyang is making overt what was, before now, largely covert. And it’s helping to solve one of Russia’s most serious wartime problems: a growing manpower shortage. The Russian military has been losing more than a thousand people a day killed and wounded on average for around a year now. At the same time, the Kremlin has been able to recruit around 30,000 fresh troops a month.
The difference between losses and recruitment amounts to a steadily growing troop deficit. The Russian government could add a special draft to its usual annual conscription, but that’s so politically toxic that even the autocratic regime of Russian president Vladimir Putin is reluctant to order it.
Replacement troops have to come from somewhere. That somewhere, it seems, is North Korea.
That doesn’t mean those 1,500 North Korean special forces, or the 9,500 additional North Korean troops following behind them, are going to man the trenches along the 700-mile front line of the wider war. It seems more likely that, at first, they’ll play a support role behind the line.
But that’s a distinction without a meaningful difference, as 11,000 North Korea support troops could free up 11,000 Russians to fight as infantry. Of course, 11,000 extra troops is barely two weeks’ worth at Russia’s current casualty rate. That raises an ominous prospect: that many more North Koreans might be coming.
North Korea’s growing role in the Russia-Ukraine war threatens to draw South Korea into the conflict, too. While South Korea already supports Ukraine with humanitarian aid – and reportedly sold the United States a million artillery shells for onward transfer to Ukraine – Seoul has been reluctant to ship weaponry directly to Kyiv.
That could change. In an emergency National Security Council meeting this week, top South Korean officials described North Korean support for Russia’s war effort “a grave security threat,” and vowed to escalate their own involvement in Ukraine in response.
South Korea builds many of the world’s best weapons – in particular, tanks and artillery. It might not be long before we see those weapons on the front line in Ukraine. But do Ukraine’s allies in Nato appreciate the war’s escalation the way South Korea does?
There’s been some slippage in foreign support for Ukraine at precisely the moment Ukraine needs more support, not less. The Ukrainian military recently formed 14 new brigades together representing a 10-percent increase in its ground combat force structure. But a slowdown in foreign assistance means 10 of the brigades lack heavy equipment, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky claimed.
Maybe South Korean assistance will close the gap. But Kyiv shouldn’t have to arrange its strategy around the reality that South Korea appreciates the implications of an increasingly global war more than Nato countries do.
A well deserved bombing
At least 5 killed in ‘terrorist attack’ on Turkish defense company
The attack hit Turkish Aerospace Industries, which makes fighter jets and other equipment the second-largest military bases after the U.S at the headquarters of one of Turkey’s top defense companies Wednesday, the country’s interior minister said. Condemning the attack on the Turkish Aerospace Industries facility as “heinous,” Moshe Solomons said on his radio slot that it was in reply to Turkeys criticism of israel
Yes indeed.. they say..
“There’s been some slippage in foreign support for Ukraine at precisely the moment Ukraine needs more support, not less.”
we say…
LoL yes…. and let’s not forget that more importantly, interest has been lagging.. .and quite a bit..because the attention span of a muggle lags behind that of a guppy… and they have a lot of shite to digest..
..so what better than to get the Masonic Satrap best Korea involved in the party…because of course they have been programming the somewhat forgetful muggles that this is how WW3 will pan out for decades..
have they not?…and I’m sure you will agree that there’s no party without Punch…
…but don’t forget that ‘Super Powers’ like the US (utter shite) can’t plan far enough enough ahead..to hehe..circumvent a goat herder rebellion in the cof cof ..grave of empire ..Afghanistanistan..stan stan stani……stan………(what another fine mess..you got me into)…
so they just left behind half a trill…. that accidentally fell into their pockets..
and other such ludicrous concoctions… welcome to the movie imbeciles..
“Team America World Police 2….The King of Zion”…
More drivel from The Telegraph.. the Bwitish Toffs tabloid-of-choice…. fit only for the trash..🙄
And before anyone claims they’d spotted me back in the 80s/90s with The “Telly” tucked under my arm whilst waiting at Waterloo for the 8:45 to Woking… all I can say is “Yes! I DID get it ‘back in the day’… but strictly for the Horse Racing tips.. particulary the naps off a tipster called Hotspur.. which, more often than not, paid for my bar tabs (Yes! My credit was excellent!”) when I settled accounts at various watering-holes on the Last Friday of every month)
Oh dear not the Telegraph again. TS might as well ask the numbskul nico x for what’s going on in Ukraine.
What source do you have for the claim “Russia has been losing on average 1,000 men per day for more than a year now”?
I believe that the claim is total nonsense (could have used bad words, but I am a gentleman).
Russian society in Russia itself would look very different if 350,000 Russian men had been killed.
Also, The Regions that Russia is fighting on are in fact Russian, not Ukraine.
Plebiscites were held and the regions overwhelmingly voted to secede from Ukraine and apply to join the Russian Federation. They were accepted in 2023.No international law will be broken should foreign troops fight in the Donbass for Russia. The SAS and SBS however have broken International law and should/will be held to account.
The morons still haven’t figured out that the war is a collusion between NATOUkraine & Russia to wipe out whites.
Rixon or TTS conveniently omits that it was Commie Russia that invaded a ‘sovereign state’ & started the war.
“The Yid-Yellow Peril uniting to put the kibosh on the white man.” –Nico X
The silver lining here is a N Korean offensive doesn’t seem likely, Russia will prolly pay better anyway, NATO can pivot from bragging about missile systems and F16’s to ‘intelligence’ about N Korean troops. So, there is that…
Yesterday the Telegraph was the only paper that told the truth about the gangster killed by police: the others hang on to the Demon-Whitey-Angel-Nog scenario
I know the South Koreans are good at producing electronics but I don’t know that they produce military gear, so it’s a good idea for North Korea to put its troops in a war zone to see NATO weapons in action, which is probably mostly what the South Koreans will be using. Getting to know how to deal with them either with some of their own weapons or what Russia has been using and sells does make sense.
Russia and North Korea deny their troops are in Ukraine but so what if they are? The arrogance of the US to confirm it! I wouldn’t trust US claims when they’re made in good faith let alone when they’re trying to diminish an opponent as here. Their lies are too many. I’d rather trust a room of remote viewers to guess the intel, especially if they’ve dropped an acid tab “to get inside their ‘eads”.
They have to have from all angles what appears to be the real “threat” of a WWIII at least 4 or 5 years before 2030 in order to usher onto the world stage all of their once “young” global leaders to give us a world government ensuring a lasting peace, and to make us proles “safe” – and in order for them to be able to systematically cull us down with more subtle and less destructive methods which are already in the works.
Astounding how obsessed Nico X is with his nonsense. However, everyone gets to choose their own path to oblivion.
Belial: you seem to have no understanding of International law. The Russians went into UKraine 110% legally.
Comments not getting posted. Have I been banned, or is this selective censorship?
Why don’t all you Fripperts xxxx off that abuse Carl, Rixon, Nico x. I like what gets put up by them. If you don’t like the page, there’s the door piss off
The whole thing is bunk. The West handing billions of dollars and sending in ‘trainers’ bitchin, whining, crying because North Korea may try to help Russia. Not one dead or injured North Korean on the battlefield,,, not even one wounded. That depraved POS we call president of Ukraine (whose term ended months ago) just trying to start crappola hoping for more bucks from its biggest and stupidest mark the United Suckers of America.
The American marks sitting around with thumbs up their butts watching the Trannies play girlas sports while their government gives away the bank to a bunch of depraved nazis.
ken–the money to Ukraine is a drop in the ocean of American money