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“South Korea’s spy agency said Friday it believes North Korea has already begun deploying four brigades totaling 12,000 troops, including special forces, to the war in Ukraine.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/north-korean-troops-helping-vladimir-putin-grave-threat-world-seoul-yoon-suk-yeol/
“H.R. McMaster, former national security adviser to former President Donald Trump,..said that Trump needs “a competent team around him” because he is susceptible to being manipulated.”
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“He added of the Republican presidential nominee: “People know kind of how to push his buttons, especially buttons associated with maintaining the complete support of his political base.””
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“In an excerpt published in the Wall Street Journal, McMaster lamented how Russian President Vladimir Putin pushed Trump’s buttons: “Putin, a ruthless former KGB operator, played to Trump’s ego and insecurities with flattery.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/25/mcmaster-trump-russia-putin-manipulate-00176287
RUSSIAN Ruble Dead as a Global Currency
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUpSbrWLWW0
Russian Escalation Strategy in Ukraine – The North Korean Deal, Kharkiv & Putin’s “Ceasefire” demand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTXwmcIfY0Y
Putin’s Kharkiv push fails to materialise as Ukraine begins retaking ground | Maj. Gen. Rupert Jones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIem3iRRsrQ
“Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine more than two years ago, US and Western military assistance to the country has followed a pattern.
First, Kyiv asks for a particular weapons system or capability. Washington declines due to concerns about raising the risk of escalation with Russia. Vladimir Putin then makes vague threats involving his nuclear arsenal. Ukraine’s advocates respond by spending months making their case in the media. One or several European allies come around to giving the Ukrainians what they want, and then eventually the US does as well.
This is more or less what happened with the debate over providing Ukraine with battle tanks, Patriot air defense systems, F-16 fighter jets, and long-range ATACMS, among other systems.”
https://www.vox.com/world-politics/353796/us-weapons-ukraine-russia-putin-escalation-nuclear
France flexes navy muscles to show Putin (and US) its war power
https://www.politico.eu/article/vladimir-putin-nato-france-navy-akila-mission-mediterranean-sea-charles-de-gaulle-aircraft-carrier/
‘The Kremlin knows this is not sustainable’ as Putin’s losses mount in Ukraine | Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RHjH8pVPhA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPCb0ZrODHk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXQlmpdydPY