• nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 months ago

    We’re getting a lot closer to a bigger global conflict as NK troops and American Military contractors begin to enter the fray. Anyone else feel like were inching closer to World War than we’ve been since the last one ended?

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      5 months ago

      We’ve been inching closer and closer ever since 2014. Is not an excuse to abandon Ukraine though. Russia won’t stop cause we give them some land.

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        5 months ago

        Appeasement didn’t stop Hitler in the 30s and 40s. It won’t stop Putin now. It never works.

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        5 months ago

        There’s a literal world of space between appeasing Putin and putting foreign soldiers on the battlefield. It’s not an either or.

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      5 months ago

      This isn’t going to do anything. First of all, North Korea is probably not going to send battle ready soldiers to a foreign country. There’s really no reason for it. They might send ditch diggers for trenches.

      Second of all, this isn’t going to move the needle on the battlefield. Russia already has more troops than Ukraine. They need more and better arms and ammunition, plus better support, training, airplanes, missiles, drones, commanders, etc. Basically Russia needs a completely different military.

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        5 months ago

        I don’t think what the soldiers end up doing makes it less international of a conflict. The point was there’s going to be sizesble amounts of foreign boots on the groun on both sides. That necessarily increases the international scope of the conflict beyond funding a proxy war.