The DPRK and Russia ratified a bilateral treaty securing mutual assistance in military matters. And according to Ukraine North Korean military units are about to enter the battle for Kursk, where Ukrainian troops are holed up in a cauldron. The map Dima is showing his viewers on the ‘Military Summary’ channel is presenting it like a bit of a ‘turkey shoot’, target practice for the North Koreans, after a last-minute Ukrainian attempt to break the encirclement failed.
As the first rumors of North Korean involvement surfaced, I wrote it was likely going to be something along those lines. Kim agreeing to deliver ammo, and whatever the Russians needed, in exchange for a chance to get in on the action. Which would be a provocation of NATO of sorts if the Koreans would be allowed to engage on Ukrainian soil, but not if their involvement would be limited to the Kursk region, since NATO is bankrolling truckloads of mercenaries from NATO countries, which even did participate in this Kursk-operation to boot. Formally people enlisting in other countries face legal trouble when they return, but I haven’t heard of a single case brought to court involving westerners fighting in Ukraine. Moreover, NATO is not really concealing its direct involvement in the war beyond weapons delivery, and offering training outside Ukraine. There have been lots of rumors of NATO-staff, acting as NATO-staff, getting whacked in the country while on a mission, but no formal admissions of body bags returning from the country so far.
For the moment I stick to my previous assessment that these DPRK-military are either introduced, or said to be active soon, without formal confirmation just yet, to deter NATO. To make NATO think twice about getting involved formally, sending its own military to replace the exhausted Ukrainians. On the other hand, there are also claims that Buryats, a Russian people living in Russia, were ‘confused’ with Koreans in photo’s used to ‘prove’ the participation of the Koreans, which would make it a ruse to excuse launching formal NATO deployment. My reading of where this war is going is that we are close to a total Ukrainian breakdown, and that Zelensky and/or the Ukrainian Rada should save what is left of the country and let this episode sink in. Unless NATO was holding back, it has no means to save Ukraine, because NATO is attrited too. Scratching the floor of the basement for stuff to give to Ukraine, and dangerously low on weapons and ammo elsewhere in Europe, excluding nukes.
Yet, the dispatch of elite German military units has also been reported on the internet, which does render it difficult to establish what NATO is up to, besides attacking Iran. As I started writing this article, it became clear that NATO, with the help of Israel, was going to attack Iran. It will be portrayed as something which is the other way around, but as with the war in Ukraine, NATO shouldn’t be seen as merely offering passive support. It did sent scores of tanker aircraft to facilitate an attack on Iran, as well as F-16’s. While Israel had to cut its Lebanon operation, which reportedly was a disaster so far anyway, short. It is anyone’s guess to assess that operation, and attacks on UN-positions in Lebanon in the proper context. Was that Netanyahu holding a gun to the head for NATO to make them support his war with Iran, or is it NATO in the ‘Control Room’ holding a gun to Israel’s head, making them shift their focus away from the neighbors to a country on the other end of the Middle East, seen as a key-node in the ‘BRICS’-trade alliance, and therefore a coveted prize for NATO?
What is blatantly obvious, is that the people of the countries involved in NATO have no say in any of this. And let me remind you that all of this coincides with this hugely successful ‘BRICS’-summit in Kazan. And that Iran has a military pact with Russia too. Israel has been seeking war with Iran for ‘ages’, and I would be surprised if this is the end of it. But like I said, is Netanyahu NATO’s dog? Or is NATO Netanyahu’s bitch? And where do the people of the associated countries fit in?
We’ll have to wait and see what the damage caused by this strike will be, and whether or not Israel and NATO suffered any losses. But NATO is looking for World War III, and it may come to regret it. I feel strongly that we’ve reached the end of the road. This issue has to be resolved violently, because of our inability to supervise the military, and our over all failure to let the diplomats sort things out. If I say ‘military’, I do not point to the people in uniform primarily, but rather all those associated organizations masquerading as ‘Think Tanks’ and ‘Intelligence Agencies’ dragging the men and women in uniform behind them. Because of the changes in our ‘thinking’ about warfare in general, with a focus on ‘hybrid’, and total neglect of the traditional services, as is evident in Ukraine, it became possible to think of a ‘World War’ as a protracted clash almost in the background. Plenty of violence and destruction, stretched out over many years and involving every country on earth, without formally declaring war. And, as we have seen, our enemy today, may be our friend tomorrow. Terrorist organizations, Neo-nazi’s, corrupt politicians, criminals, racially motivated people left or right, communists. NATO is there for all of us. As our ‘friend’ today, and our ‘foe’ tomorrow, as long as we don’t stop the blood-letting, and walk-the-walk, and talk-the-talk of ‘fighting for peace’, and ‘f.cking for virginity’.