Blinken Claims Russia Deploying 8,000 Koreans Because He’s So Weak He Needs 8,000 Guys

Still no evidence this is actually happening.

Feels like we’ve gotten a bit ahead of ourselves here.

The Guardian:

About 8,000 North Korean soldiers are stationed in Russia on the border with Ukraine, the US secretary of state has said, warning that Moscow is preparing to deploy those troops into combat “in the coming days”.

Antony Blinken said the US believed that North Korea had sent 10,000 troops to Russia in total, deploying them first to training bases in the far east before sending the vast majority to the Kursk region on the border with Ukraine.

Blinken told a press conference that the North Korean troops had received Russian training in “artillery, UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicles], basic infantry operations, including trench clearing, indicating that they fully intend to use these forces in frontline operations”.

The announcement was the clearest statement yet from the US that it anticipated the first large-scale deployment of foreign troops into the Russia-Ukraine war since Moscow’s full-scale invasion in February 2022.

The deployment could expand the largest land war in Europe since the second world war into a multi-region conflict, tying in the rising tensions in the Korean peninsula between North and South Korea.

One of the reasons that Russia is turning to these North Korean troops is that it’s desperate,” Blinken said during the press conference as he met South Korea’s foreign and defence ministers in Washington. “Putin has been throwing more and more Russians into a meat grinder of his own making in Ukraine. Now he’s turning to North Korean troops, and that is a clear sign of weakness.”

Wait, so is the narrative still that Russia is losing? Are government people actually still saying that?

After Kursk, they’re still saying Russia is losing? As they rapidly advance towards the river?

The map is all red arrows now.

With Putin refusing to deny the North Korea thing, this almost feels like some kind of tacit agreement between Russia and the US, that the US is going to say they had to flee the scene because of North Korean giga-killers.

Korean troops would not really be especially useful on the battlefield, what with the language barrier. It doesn’t make any sense from Russia’s perspective. It would surely make sense for the North Koreans, who would want their men to have the experience of fighting NATO, but it’s unclear what Russia would even get out of this.

Maybe if it was hundreds of thousands of troops, it would make sense, but a few thousand? What is that even supposed to do?

It’s crazy how the US government just says the most ridiculous nonsense, does the poker face while knowing the whole world, excluding fatmerican scum, knows they’re lying.