Can South Korea Save Ukraine? | The Impossible State

Please join the Impossible State podcast for a special discussion of South Korea's support of Ukraine in the ongoing war. The conversation will be moderated by Dr. Victor Cha and feature Col. Mark Cancian, senior adviser with the International Security Program, and Chris H. Park, research assistant and program coordinator for the Arleigh A. Burke Chair.
This episode of The Impossible State has been updated for accuracy of statements on U.S. and ROK government policies.
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[@jillfeatherman5523]

“The larger strategic question is how are the Ukrainians going to regain the lost territory….that is a question for another time”. Why?

[@ingvarmayer8947]

Apparently because the speaker cares about Ukraine's territorial integrity not nearly as much as about going back to "business as usual" with the Russians and eliminating the drastically exaggerated risks of escalation.

[@user-xq1wz3tp5z]

Many observers with background in military & I.C. fear that Ukraine Has Lost the war, or that they are barely surviving ... based mostly on the differential of population and artillery between the parties (Russia:Ukraine ~4:1 population; 7:1 artillery), and the fact that Russia has mobilized its industrial base, and has stable induction of potential fighters into their military (Ukraine lacks artillery industry, and is lacking in manpower for military). After WWII the West ceded Eastern Europe to USSR, based on the fact that USSR had liberated Eastern Europe from Nazi invasion/occupation. After 1989, Hungary (1956), Czechoslovakia (1968), and Poland (1980s) surged into NATO, while the Russians protested, but did not actively resist. When 'W' Bush proposed that Georgia and Ukraine would join NATO, Russian opposition became increasingly active, until the 2014 coup prompted the seizure of Crimea. The Minsk Agreements were forged by France and Germany, allowing a ceasefire. Neither Ukraine nor U.S. supported Minsk (which proposed very limited autonomy of Eastern Ukrainian Donbas , and rights of Russian language there). The danger of 'liberating' states adjacent superpower borders is that the activity can be perceived as an existential threat by the super power.