Poland was a highly aggressive nation in the interwar years. That in no way changes the fact that Germany and the Soviet Union concocted a plot in secret to conquer it without provocation and Russia was every bit as much on board as Germany.
Russia routinely claims it has never engaged in an aggressive war and it’s a laugh out loud lie.
Well yea, it's summer time. Finland would only attack in the winter when they have the advantage. /sNATO is such a huge threat to Russia that it has removed ~80% of troops & equipment from the Finnish border to Ukraine compared to pre-accession, leaving the now-NATO border pretty empty.
Don’t forget Poland’s skirt was too damned short for proper sensibilities.Poland was clearly threatening both German and USSR's territorial integrity by placing itself so close to their borders. If they were more polite, they would have summoned a pair of neutral countries from the depths of the abyss to share a border with, instead.
Poland was clearly threatening both German and USSR's territorial integrity by placing itself so close to their borders. If they were more polite, they would have summoned a pair of neutral countries from the depths of the abyss to share a border with, instead.
At the same time, leading Polish politicians of different orientations pursued the general expectation of restoring the country's pre-1772 borders. Motivated by this idea, Polish Chief of State Józef Piłsudski (in office from 14 November 1918) began moving troops east.
In 1919, while the Soviet Red Army was still preoccupied with the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922, the Polish Army moved into territories regarded by many Poles as Polish "Kresy". That year, they took most of present-day Lithuania and Belarus.
SK has NK to be concerned with. They might not want to give away too much stuff.If it happens this would be extremely helpful. Besides their massive production capacity for munitions and armaments South Korea has vast stores of stuff that's obsolete for them but the Ukrainians could put to good use.
SK has NK to be concerned with. They might not want to give away too much stuff.
One thing is for sure more hotspots plays to his advantage so if can sweet talk Kim into stupid he will.RU had a lot of stuff mothballed too that they never thought they'd need. If Un gets bold as a result of his tea with Vlad, what will he do? It's probably unlikely he'd move on the south, but these days, who knows for sure what the goofballs will do from day to day.
And what is Vlad hoping to do in Nam?
RU had a lot of stuff mothballed too that they never thought they'd need. If Un gets bold as a result of his tea with Vlad, what will he do? It's probably unlikely he'd move on the south, but these days, who knows for sure what the goofballs will do from day to day.
And what is Vlad hoping to do in Nam?
I was being facetious, drawing a corollary between the current 'political situation' with that one. I'm aware that's where the similarities end.No need to go overboard in proclaiming Poland's eternal victim status. Everybody in that part of the world has been invading and seizing territory from each other (and massacring each other) for a long time.
Nationalism sucks, but it seems it's much more deeply-rooted and harder to transcend than the left traditionally assumed.
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NK is largely irrelevant at this point. If NK wanted to attack SK, SK having ammunition isn't going to make much difference to everyone living there, and if NK did attack SK, they'd get obliterated whether SK had ammunition or not. SK probably has more to be concerned about from CN I'd wager than NK.SK has NK to be concerned with. They might not want to give away too much stuff.
NK is largely irrelevant at this point. If NK wanted to attack SK, SK having ammunition isn't going to make much difference to everyone living there, and if NK did attack SK, they'd get obliterated whether SK had ammunition or not. SK probably has more to be concerned about from CN I'd wager than NK.
Helping arm UK is one sideways gambit available to them to stick it to NK without provoking the Hermit Kingdom to something really violent and stupid.Assuming the Kim negotiated technology transfers that improve NK weapons then SK could be inclined to retaliate against Russia by helping Ukraine to kill a lot of Russians.
North Korea isn't doing shit and they never will. Kim Jong Un knows that as long as he stays in his own country the rest of the world will leave him alone as removing him is absolutely not worth the cost because North Korea has nothing the rest of the world wants. That calculation changes as soon as he tries to start some shit with South Korea though, who most certainly do.Helping arm UK is one sideways gambit available to them to stick it to NK without provoking the Hermit Kingdom to something really violent and stupid.
As Russia has proven, it is a great fallacy to expect humans to remain rational. For it is not in our nature to do so.North Korea isn't doing shit and they never will. Kim Jong Un knows that as long as he stays in his own country the rest of the world will leave him alone as removing him is absolutely not worth the cost because North Korea has nothing the rest of the world wants. That calculation changes as soon as he tries to start some shit with South Korea though, who most certainly do.
I get your point but Russia miscalculated in a way where the outcome was more nebulous. For Kim it is ‘you attack South Korea and you die, personally’. To me that’s a lot clearer.As Russia has proven, it is a great fallacy to expect humans to remain rational. For it is not in our nature to do so.
And all he really cares about is staying in power. He had his own half-brother murdered because he was getting a bit uppity.North Korea isn't doing shit and they never will. Kim Jong Un knows that as long as he stays in his own country the rest of the world will leave him alone as removing him is absolutely not worth the cost because North Korea has nothing the rest of the world wants. That calculation changes as soon as he tries to start some shit with South Korea though, who most certainly do.