strunkenwhite
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I'm with you most of the way, but Russia getting artillery supplies from NK shouldn't be laughed off. NK and SK are both sitting on an absolute mountain of artillery guns and shells staring across the DMZ at each other. (Note to readers: basically, the Cold War never ended for the Korean peninsula. And Seoul is more or less within gun range.) NK may suck ass but the quality of those shells is important to it; that the shells suck anyway is a testament to how much NK sucks but I'm not sure they're that much worse than Russia's own stuff.If you're having to buy shitty, half-squibbed shells from North Korea just to maintain some sort of operational capacity, that does not support the "Russia has an overwhelming artillery advantage" supposition.
As far as I know, SK isn't prepared to give up its own shells. Unless that changes, Russia getting large quantities of NK shells may be key to counterbalancing NATO stockpiles and production.
Eh, that could be true, but I think it's much more likely that the reason ethnic minorities are being press-ganged is simply because that won't piss off the voters as much as doing it to "real" Russians will. Path of least resistance.So basically the Russians are using this war to purge restive ethic groups? Yeah that checks out it's a very old Russian tactic