Imagine going from being a subsistence farmer without any access to technology to being hunted down by cyber drones.
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I'm sure .ml will be extremely normal about this
I wouldn't know, I blocked that entire circle jerk of a shithole domain.
Quite happier now not seeing lemmy.ml or anyone else in it.
Are there the russian fanboys? Or what did i miss?
Russian / North Korea / China, all the "communist" countries
No. russia and china are not communist. China and Russia are partly capitalist.
I suspect they’d say it’s not a big deal, because they would argue North Korea is a mostly normal country, they have a right to “defend themselves” from western imperialism and so on…
I don’t know where to even begin with that. When perception of reality is that splintered, there’s not much common ground to go on.
"Something something all of these soldiers are volunteers who are paid handsomely and are merely trying to liberate Ukraine from itself."
Pornhub, prepare your servers...
For context ... North Korean soldiers become porn addicts since getting internet access for the first time.
Fun to catch little glimpses of how the very culture I inhabit is several potentially life-ruining infohazards in a trench coat.
source: the financial times, lmfao
Well if anyone would know.....
Amazing. 50,000 brave volunteers ...
Is this why Trump is now retaliating against South Korea and egging on North Korea?
North Korea (or China) could probably just take Russia in it's weakend state. However, I believe China will do it financially, not by sending soldiers.
North Korea wouldn't be able to move its forces into Russia. They do technically share a short land border that has a rail connection that would be pretty trivial for Russia to defend. It would be like trying to invade the US by landing in Alaska. And Russia could almost certinly eliminte DPRK's forces quickly. And even if they made it to Moscow, Russia is likely to use nukes if they feel they're under true threat of being overthrown. While many nukes would fail, many probably would not fail.
Also, China would come down hard on North Korea's stupidity.
True. My thought was more like then sending a shitton of troops for "support" that then decide differently. However, that would probably also trigger like a nuclear response.
That didn't go well for Prighozin(sp?)
Europe union should send its army or volunteer European to offset. We know that some european country see Ukraine as a proxy to weaken imperialist Russia.