The Spiral of Tensions: North Korea, Russia, and Ukraine

The Spiral of Tensions: North Korea, Russia, and Ukraine | The Impossible State

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@murdercrows21 Ай бұрын

Soouth korea has fought in every war with america starting from vietnam and afghanistan. What is this lady talking about?

@thor9563 Ай бұрын

Good point! Also, each soldier is about 2000 dollars in Un's pocket per month. Un's NEVER let their laborers or soldiers keep any money paid for their services. Russsieee's 'second army' IN UKRAINE will teach their Korean students how to drink LOTS of VODKA before they join the meat assault against Ukrainian troops!

@AcidBombYT Ай бұрын

well yea and they actually know how to fight, NK thinks a car is special. They will be just burnt meat.

@alvinseah5423 Ай бұрын

She is quite pretty. You know the old saying about Brains and Beauty.

@FamilyPremiumShare Ай бұрын

Yes, South Korean troops may have participated, in the loosest sense, in GWOT ; however, it is delusional to assert that they gained any relevant combat experience. Vietnam was half a century ago and thus not relevant for troops today.

@Oggie389 Ай бұрын

South koreans did gain some combat experience like the tiger division which deployed to Vietnam.

@changedNameSorry Ай бұрын

@@Oggie389 it's also 50 years ago now though. Much closer to the Korean war than to the present.

@charlesdenman9052 Ай бұрын

The South Koreans in Vietnam were fierce and much feared.

@thor9563 Ай бұрын

@@charlesdenman9052 Yes, the legends are still told in movies

@Oggie389 Ай бұрын

@@changedNameSorry still doctrinally, they [ROK] did practice mobile warfare, with allies (multinational CinC), using mobility systems relevant to today (ie rotary air assets)

@18_rabbit Ай бұрын

@@charlesdenman9052 hate to be negative now but per my main Vietnam vet officer friend, it was SK troops who had the sadistic/cruel reputation & were accused of war crimes. I like to mention it bcuz some of the elite troops from several countries including us of course were reasonably suspected of war crimes. Many of us americans born during the war got to know a lot about the war and it even formed our formal educations and got us into these fields like military, and international policy, etc.

@psaint60 Ай бұрын

What are the chances that Kim Jong Un lets ANY of those North Korean soldiers back into North Korea to talk to friends and relatives about what life is REALLY like in the outside world?

@thor9563 Ай бұрын

@akiralone4611 Ай бұрын

Like the sky is full of iron birds pooping bombs at anyone and anything moving on the ground?

@TrailWalker03 Ай бұрын

The obvious North Korean motivation no one mentions: cash. Assuming the going rate of US$ 2,000/mo for mercenaries just a 1,500 strong battalion brings in a cool US$3m per month. Even with volume discounts that figure scales nicely for a country short of hard currency and a huge standing army.

@thor9563 Ай бұрын

I agree with one minor point: The UN family pockets all money paid by Russsieee or China for their services. And Koreans will learn that VODKA helps them gain courage before they join the meat assaults against Ukrainians.

@linkoraedikuz8139 Ай бұрын

Those are North Korean combat troops. Why would the DPRK send 12k “technicians” to the battlefield? MACV operated as advisors in Vietnam, but often got into contact with the adversary. It’s a slippery slope, but it’s highly likely Kim is using the opportunity to get North Korea some much needed combat experience.

@thor9563 Ай бұрын

North Korea's worm-infested skeleton forces represent a formiddable foe - much more fearsome than Russsieee's 'second army' - in Ukraine!

@tomschneider7555 Ай бұрын

If these guys are the North Korea experts than god help us This is the most uniformed panel I have ever seen There are good Russian and Ukrainian blogs that know exactly what the North Korean troops doing and having the pictures and videos to proof it

@eugenmalatov5470 Ай бұрын

Always fascinating and sad to see how Western experts and policy-makers always seam to be caught off guard by what seam to be an enemys obvious next moves.

@alvinseah5423 Ай бұрын

From China' POV, priority is that Putin does not lose. But China cannot overtly provide too much support, whether material, financial, or in terms of military manpower. Hence having N Korea step up to provide troops is a great blessing, it provides aid to Putin whilst giving China plausible deniability.

@changedNameSorry Ай бұрын

For the last 20ish years geopolitics gives the impression as if scripted by people who usually write soap operas. Unbelievable.

@katewoolf6059 Ай бұрын

The West's escalation management has backfired

@dominickjvlogs Ай бұрын

? North Korea has trained their citizens to see the UsA as public enemy number one. This is not some crazy backfire they have been waiting for this.

@dominickjvlogs Ай бұрын

N Korea has been training it's citizens to view USA as a huge enemy for years and years. This is not some surprise backfire they have been preparing for this for a long time so Kim Jong Un can tell all the citizens of Korea that he is the only one who can "protect" them from America ( while starving them and forcing them into labor camps )

@ArthurTurner-bm1fn Ай бұрын

You're giving the "west" too much power. Russia is going to have to take some responsibility here at some point.

@dianehghzn7670 Ай бұрын

Yess Exactly Absolutely great conversation and totally agree and correct kimmy is biting at the bit to get involved in some kind of opportunity to have a confrontation especially at the UNITED STATES and he’s testing the waters so to speak in Russia and he’s getting bored with being ignored literally by every country in the world so now finding some importance to play the war games ( because he is a war criminal basicly to what he’s been doing to his own people ) like starving them to death keeping them imprisoned in their own country and god knows what else so this is basicly relieving his boredom maybe the locals are loosing interest who knows whats going on in that craziest of all the crazy countries on this earth 🌎 thankyou so much for a very interesting program with knowledgeable people who suond like they know what their talking about again thanks so much 🇦🇺🇦🇺🦘🦘🇺🇦🇺🇦☮️☮️🍀

@markdouglas8073 Ай бұрын

Let us hope Putin does not help the DPRK with a heat shield.

@alex990ism Ай бұрын

this wishfull thinking without hard data is getting depressing, this is more like gossip rather than an analisis and preparing for worst case scenarious, stupid, reckless, superficial, does the us and the west even want to no let the world be dominated by china and russia or what?

@DaShooter12 Ай бұрын

I’m actually surprised everyone is so skeptical of KJU sending special forces to Ukraine. It seems to track with my own and others thoughts on KJU’s recent aggressive moves and constitutional changes.

@alex990ism Ай бұрын

@@DaShooter12 of course he is sending troops, and doing a lot more , since the cold war besides bombing arabs the west truly has forgotten how to deal with other real powers in the world, the us has the body and capability of a superpower but the state philosophy of slovenia, for fks sake its a disgrace, the russians and the chinese are running circles around the americans, everyday, its depressing to watch

@alpsalish Ай бұрын

I am sure China is aware.

@francis559 Ай бұрын

28k US Army staying at S. Korea now! For what!??

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@thor9563 Ай бұрын

In this season of Halloween it is no longer ghosts, goblins, skeletons, witches that make one shiver- it is political leaders Pootin, Un, Xi, Khamenei, Trump, Harris!

@WMLIEW-hu4nx Ай бұрын

Isn't it somewhat presumptuous to assume that the Russian fighting strategy is old-fashioned and unsophisticated. After all, the Ukrainian army is trained by the US/West, and their 'sophisticated' fighting strategy ain't working so well in the field. Strategy manifests itself in many forms and has to be developed to suit the different situations. There is no such thing as an old fashion/unsophisticated strategy if it is effective and working well.

@_PEPSISUCKS Ай бұрын

Fat, stupid, effeminate, LGBTQIA+KFC Chicken bureaucrats can't see that real war is brutal and horrible. They like to live in their own bubble where nothing ever actually threatens them. And they can keep shilling for defense contractors. So, yeah, they're presumptuous. They're also ignorant of reality, shortsighted, unwilling to learn, and corrupt. I don't think anyone at CSIS has ever even held a gun. And because they read reports and habitually reduce the lives of men to numbers on a spreadsheet, they think their opinion actually matters. The problem is that it does matter because important people do listen to them. So, yes even though they're often wrong about everything due to a fundamental misunderstanding of reality, if you want to be an informed voter you should at least know what they're saying.

@bakedbean37 Ай бұрын

"the Ukrainian army is trained by the US/West" But is being restrained and hamstrung by the west over concerns of escalation. Russia is struggling against Ukraine that doesn't have the means to carry out the sort of response that an unrestrained NATO would. However much Putin claims his forces are fighting NATO doesn't make it so. " if it is effective and working well." It's because their opponent has his hand tied behind his back. That won't always be true.

@alpsalish Ай бұрын

Why is there no mention of manpower as a component of this conflict. Also, regardless, Russian progress is very slow. This could easily become a quagmire. We don't yet know.

@alpsalish Ай бұрын

Also, I don't think it presumptious to state they are fighting in an unsophisticated way. Russia has been learning through errors, though.

@alpsalish Ай бұрын

If anything, sophistication has played a very large role for both sides. That sophistication being the deployment of drone technology.

@LEAVEMEANDMYFAMILYALONE Ай бұрын

the show's graphic overlay is right where the closed captions are on youtube - consider making it smaller and placing in the lower right corner instead.

@plebius Ай бұрын

You can move the closed captions. Make them smaller or bigger, change colour and font.

@LEAVEMEANDMYFAMILYALONE Ай бұрын

if they could be moved, i wouldn't have made this comment. theres a reason no other show on youtube puts graphic overlays there.

@franciskenyi3139 Ай бұрын

Thats nothing you keep talking about the U S A, which ran away from Afghanistan Vietnam it also lost in Korea with its allies, the enemy is the U S A the more Russia North Korea and China are strong the U S A will easily run for its own life.