Ukraine

[MultiVerse]

I never want to hear one of these dead Enders tell me about global warming again.

How very Orwellian of Cono. Oh well, he's going to hear about it anyway: Venezuela’s last glacier, Humboldt, has melted away... making Venezuela the first postglacial nation in the Andes. Glaciers elsewhere in the tropics are showing a similar response to warming. The glaciers on Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and Puncak Jaya in Indonesia, for example, have become stagnant ice fields.
https://scitechdaily.com/venezuelas-...s-melted-away/

Also, too, one of Russia’s newest Sukhoi Su-57 multirole fighter jets was hit in a Ukrainian attack at a Russian airfield almost 600 km away from the Ukrainian border:


Ukrainian spirit is undefeatable

[subtle plague]

Great. 16.5% voted for putin aka the Trojan Horse AFD in Germany in the current EU elections.
The rightwing Trend is EU wide. "Patriots" voting for Russian dominance.....we're following the US Trend.
Fabulous.

I still wonder how those guys want to solve the France first, Austria first, Germany first Idiocy Problem....... oh wait we'll be part of the great anti woke Russian empire. Fuck that.
Fuck Putin.

[PB]

If Donny Diapers wins, Putin will immediately begin implementing his campaign to over-run the NATO baltic countries, and use them as jumping off points for the Nato inner circle. Germany knows and is preparing.

[subtle plague]

I don't know whether we really. Know. We still have a lot of appeasement people here. Even in the Parties that are not Putins propaganda Tools.

But I think even without the US nato could stop Russian advances.

( in case you meant that the idiots are preparing for Russian takeover: that's only roughly 20% of us combining the idiot parties)

[Casey E]

From a visit to Russia in 2017

Best buddies

[Bunion 2020]

Oh shit! A Russian task force is bearing down on Florida.

Russia's four-ship grouping visiting Cuba is made up of the Gorshkov frigate, the nuclear-powered submarine Kazan, the fleet oil tanker Pashin, and the rescue tug Nikolay Chiker, according to the Foreign Ministry in Havana.

The Tug is essential.

[MultiVerse]

A person would expect Putin and Kim Jong-un to takeover the West in a Lada but nope, Benz it is

[dunfree]

A person would expect Putin and Kim Jong-un to takeover the West in a Lada but nope, Benz it is

Vladdy brought his Aurus - maybe the symbolism of the car being made in the factory next to shaheed drone contract production was too much?

Best thing though was n Korea releasing the footage of the Russian delegation getting kicked out of the meaning room so Kim could arrive first. Yup you the bitch putyput

[highangle]

The June 19 defense pact signed between Russia and North Korea included a promise to provide military assistance to one another – within days Pyongyang said it was sending troops to Ukraine


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Last week, President Vladimir Putin made an official state visit to the Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea (DPRK) – North Korea, his first for almost a quarter of a century. As part of that visit Putin and Kim Jong Un signed a so-called defense pact in the North Korean capital on June 19.


The military treaty states: “In the event that any one of the two sides is put in a state of war by an armed invasion from an individual state or several states, the other side shall provide military and other assistance with all means in its possession without delay.”


In response to that Pyongyang announced early this week that it will be sending troops in the form of a military engineering unit to support Russian forces on the ground in the Donetsk region. The troops are expected to arrive on the battlefield as soon as next month.


The DPRK has already supplied almost two million rounds of artillery ammunition, rockets for Russian multiple launch rocket systems and, it is alleged, ballistic missiles to support Putin’s forces since the two leaders met in Russia in September. The active participation of North Korean combat troops raises the specter of escalation to the conflict, especially as commentators think it will not go well for Pyongyang’s sappers on the battlefield.


Pentagon spokesperson Pat Ryder said during a briefing on June 25 that North Korean troops were effectively being sent to their slaughter and questioned the wisdom of the deployment. He said, “I think that if I were North Korean military personnel management, I would be questioning my choices on sending my forces to be cannon fodder in an illegal war against Ukraine – we’ve seen the kinds of casualties that Russian forces [have been taking].”


He added that the US was monitoring what appeared to be ever-deepening military ties between the two countries.
Ilya Ponomarev, a former Russian member of parliament told the UK’s Daily Express that North Korea has become an important bridge between the Kremlin and China. Beijing can indirectly transfer military equipment to Moscow through Pyongyang without falling foul of Western sanctions.


As he explained: “North Korea is one of key Russian partners and the meaning of the rationale behind them becoming such a partner is because they are acting as a bridge between China and Russia.

“Essentially all the military equipment that is delivered from North Korea was developed for the North Koreans by the Chinese.
“China is cautious not to fall foul of secondary sanctions by the US, but North Korea is not in danger.
“So, there is no problem for the Chinese to assist North Koreans and then North Koreans to make trade with Russia and benefit from this both financially and in terms of military development.”


Michael Carpenter, a member of the US National Security Council commented, the day after Putin and Kim signed their defense treaty, that the coalition that Putin was building between Russia, North Korea, Iran and Syria stood in stark contrast to the group of 50 nations standing beside Ukraine in the “Ramstein” Defense Contact Group and the approximately 100 countries that supported the UN Charter principles in the Global Peace Summit held in Switzerland on June 15 and 16.

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/34893

[Meconium]

Good luck with that. Ukraine has been hitting a shitload over the past few weeks.

[Meconium]

[highangle]

Good luck with that. Ukraine has been hitting a shitload over the past few weeks.

Good point: How do they intend to get to the front en-masse, units intact, as an expeditionary force?


"1. Glorious Defense Navy assume control profligate Western containership full of Power Bars destined for decadent West...




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[PNWbrit]

How to Escape From the Russian Army

Facing grim job prospects, a young Nepali signed up to join Russia’s military, which sent him to fight in Ukraine. His ordeal of combat, injury and escape turned into a tale worthy of Hollywood.

[Viva]

Good point: How do they intend to get to the front en-masse, units intact, as an expeditionary force?

A little more on this putative deployment here:

https://x.com/Gerashchenko_en/status...94971087945732

[PB]

As alluded to, Fat Boy Un is not sending any quality troops or munitions to Ukraine.
South Korea, on the other hand ......

[Meconium]

I'm guessing digestive and immune system problems.

[Viva]

As alluded to, Fat Boy Un is not sending any quality troops or munitions to Ukraine.

Yeah, it's a head-scratcher, though, ain't it?

Of course, It may not actually happen. But supposing it does, what's the purpose?

North Korea is not like Iran and is offering no technology that requires the attention of specialists.

Maybe an initial move to establish broader industrial partnership? Or possibly an attempt at escalation? Yet another form of asymmetric warfare- keep the West guessing / panicking?

I dunno, it's a weird move.

[riser4]

KAOS

[highangle]

Poot's desperate - Probably getting something closer to facts from the new guys who replaced Shoygu and Gerasimov.

[Meconium]

Hard to believe it will happen. If it does you'll get a bunch of guys that have never left the country, eating strange food getting exposed to new germs. Bunch of white crazy drunks yelling at them and what not. Why not just kill the Russians and run to Ukraine with your hands up?

[ötzi]

I wonder what the Chinese think of all this

[Viva]

There was a good article in The Diplomat recently describing the balancing act Putin must maintain regarding North Korea, now that he's introduced unexpected tension between Pyongyang and Beijing.

https://thediplomat.com/2024/06/caug...korea-dilemma/

That tension will likely magnify if North Korea actually sends that engineer battalion to Ukraine, regardless of battlefield impact (negligible, I bet).

[tgapp]

https://voice-of-ukraine.com/

pretty cool souvenir

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[summit]

This lady is so well spoken. Professor at the US Naval War College

The whole interview is worth a listen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcVSgYz5SJ8

[highangle]

Another angle on Russia's strike on Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarV...ile_attack_on/