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2022-08-06 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Desperate Putin 'is considering turning to Kim Jong Un for help in Ukraine and offering energy and grain in return for 100,000 soldiers', Russian reports claim

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-08-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [18 views ] Top
File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1 lulz

Posted by mossomo 2022-08-06 00:23|| 2022-08-06 00:23|| Front Page Top

#2 If Putin takes the norks it will show weakness.

Posted by Xyz 2022-08-06 00:30|| 2022-08-06 00:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Close support already exists between these two especially after Pelosi's stunt. Close behind her stunt Volodymyr has asked China to have Russia back down. Western media in chronic damage control mode. Even Denmark now is drawn towards Russia and I have read the Swiss and Finland have buyers remorse.The weakness of the EU and USA is obvious to most nations of the world. Inflation in UK, USA and Germany is historic. The leadership of Western nations is the worst I have ever seen. Desperate hardly. He plays this game well. Kim's offer will be accepted. Look what he offers Putin. The unification of the Asian world only gets stronger. Diplomats and bureaucrats will not make the world safer or stronger. Ability, will and strength are the qualities needed now. China let Pelosi go back because they knew she would do more damage here. I expect Biden will do everything wrong as he is now(80,000 IRS agents; what a joke, nobody wants to work). My historic rant for the day.

Posted by Dale 2022-08-06 06:13|| 2022-08-06 06:13|| Front Page Top

#4 I think histrionic is the word you were looking for...

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-08-06 07:18|| 2022-08-06 07:18|| Front Page Top

#5 Who here thinks Putin would allow 100,00 well armed norks, loyal to China, 500 miles from Moscow?
You can check them out, but they'll never leave.

Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2022-08-06 07:19|| 2022-08-06 07:19|| Front Page Top

#6 Putin miscalculated. The old saying is, "Everything you do to save a recipe after it's ruined just makes it worse."

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-08-06 07:22|| 2022-08-06 07:22|| Front Page Top

#7 histrionic; no, just venting.

Posted by Dale 2022-08-06 07:37|| 2022-08-06 07:37|| Front Page Top

#8 Ah! So instead of a bridge, they'll just fill rivers with North Korean corpses!

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-08-06 07:59|| 2022-08-06 07:59|| Front Page Top

#9 Nothing says better a better evaluation than Go-No Go testing. Putin has found out the hard way and, unfortunately, for the grunts on the ground what the cost is. Can Kim afford to show the same level of military effectiveness that a real life (and death) demands. If they fail as the Russians have their threat posture evaporates. Who you going to send? Your palace guard or the ranks? Who will validate your military effectiveness best? Can you afford to lose your untested formations against people who've already been through Darwin's environment for many months. Remember your military organization follows the Soviet/Russian model not the Western.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-08-06 08:10|| 2022-08-06 08:10|| Front Page Top

#10 Reality has nothing to do with the way Kim thinks.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-08-06 08:14|| 2022-08-06 08:14|| Front Page Top

#11 Norks drift over into Poland. Vlad sez, "hey wudn't us."

Posted by Besoeker 2022-08-06 08:19|| 2022-08-06 08:19|| Front Page Top

#12 #3 Excellent stenography of the Kremlin line.

Posted by Nero 2022-08-06 09:44|| 2022-08-06 09:44|| Front Page Top

#13 Norks drift over into Poland.

If this results in kimchi pirogis, is it really such a bad thing?

Posted by SteveS 2022-08-06 10:16|| 2022-08-06 10:16|| Front Page Top

#14 Go-No Go testing

Definition, please.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-08-06 10:17|| 2022-08-06 10:17|| Front Page Top

#15 If this results in kimchi pirogis, is it really such a bad thing?

Other than some seasonings, still not sure the difference between sauerkraut and kimchi.

I'll get a craving for either and binge. Family and I play a game of Monopoly to determine who sleeps outside.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-08-06 10:26|| 2022-08-06 10:26|| Front Page Top

#16 Proper kimchi is fermented, which sauer kraut is not.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-08-06 11:03|| 2022-08-06 11:03|| Front Page Top

#17 Sauerkraut is also fermented, M. Basic recipe

Posted by trailing wife 2022-08-06 13:51|| 2022-08-06 13:51|| Front Page Top

#18 #14 back in the 'old' Army, one form of testing whether troops retained the information they had received instruction in was to spend a morning or afternoon session running a route with stations/tables. Each station had evaluators and applicable gear/materials. The troop had to run to each station, present his sheet and then take a test. It could be computations, it could be equipment stripping and reassembly, it be setting up equipment that would then operate, and etc. It was timed both in execution of tasks but also the run overall. At each station you got a rating of Go (successful) or No-Go (unsuccessful). Failure in peacetime usually involved retraining classes usually at the price of the troop's 'free time', like Saturday or Sunday and a repeat of the test shortly there after. In war, it may well mean a body bag.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-08-06 15:35|| 2022-08-06 15:35|| Front Page Top

#19 I didn't know sauerkraut was fermented. Now I know. Thanks, TW. What I do know is everyone expects me to make two pork roasts on New Years Day, one with sauerkraut, one with kimchi.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-08-06 16:55|| 2022-08-06 16:55|| Front Page Top

#20 Sauerkraut was a keystone in the age of sail.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-08-06 19:41|| 2022-08-06 19:41|| Front Page Top

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