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President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that it was Russia's business whether or not it decided to use North Korean troops and said that if Ukraine wanted to join NATO then Moscow could do what it wanted to ensure its own security.

The United States said on Wednesday that it had seen evidence that North Korea has sent 3,000 troops to Russia for possible deployment in Ukraine, a move that the West is casting as a significant escalation of the Ukraine war.

Ukraine's military intelligence service said that the first North Korean units trained in Russia had been deployed in the Kursk region, a Russian border area where Ukrainian forces took a chunk of Russian land in August.

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[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 56 points 16 hours ago

By that logic, it sounds like it’s Ukraine’s affair whether or not it allows NATO armored brigades and CAP to operate in the Ukrainian theater, in concert with AFU forces.

[-] Docus@lemmy.world 17 points 15 hours ago

To be fair, that is probably up to Ukraine. Except that we aren’t offering those NATO brigades. I wish we would.

[-] masterspace@lemmy.ca 35 points 16 hours ago

Can you imagine being a Putin supporter and simping for such a dumb and cowardly piece of shit?

[-] atro_city@fedia.io 22 points 16 hours ago

if Ukraine wanted to join NATO then Moscow could do what it wanted to ensure its own security

NATO should really just allow Ukraine to join and tell Russia: get out within 1 week and restore the original borders or you're at war with NATO. It's Ukraine' and NATO's affair after all, correct?

[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 11 points 15 hours ago

That’s probably why NATO doesn’t invite countries at war. What’s stopping Ukraine from invoking article 5 immediately?

[-] einkorn@feddit.org 11 points 11 hours ago

Well, that'd be the point of Ukraine joining NATO currently.

[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 hours ago

NATO maintains that it is a defensive alliance. If NATO starts adding countries Russia is currently at war with, it becomes an offensive alliance.

That being said, why wasn’t Ukraine added earlier?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 18 points 17 hours ago

I'm pretty sure war is not a one-sided situation, Vlad.

[-] MediaBiasFactChecker@lemmy.world -4 points 17 hours ago
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