In response to a story about North Korea mobilizing troops. https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1g50q25/north_korea_claims_mobilisation_of_14_million/

  • AmericaDeserved711 [any]
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    2 months ago

    so Russia is not a "world superpower" but can get all these other countries to do their bidding at the drop of a hat. which is it?

    • UlyssesT
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      2 months ago

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    • Pentacat [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      Americans are unfamiliar with “soft power.” For obvious reasons.

  • ComradeMonotreme [she/her, he/him]
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    2 months ago

    Who North Korea probably still thinks is a world super-power

    This is just shitty world-building. Even if you believe North Korea is deeply weird prison country where people eat rats that eat people and push trains, the leadership knows what's going on in the world.

    • Lussy [any, hy/hym]
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      2 months ago

      Any veil of intelligence this guy tried presenting went out the window with that comment.

      Fifth grade level political analysis in a lib school

      • ComradeMonotreme [she/her, he/him]
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        I remember as a kid when Saddam Hussein was bad, one of the propaganda things about him was in private he'd wear a cowboy hat and watch US movies. Like that's how they need to Portray Kim Jong-Un. Slipping out of his leader's uniform to put on baggy blue jeans and fire up MTV etc

  • Cowbee [he/him, they/them]
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    2 months ago

    Liberal fanfiction, this is idealism in action.

    Side note, for any DPRK-heads, is there actual risk of war with ROK? Seems to me DPRK is hunkering down after giving up on reconcilliation, not that they are escalating, it's my understanding that neither side wants war.

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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      2 months ago

      They're responding to a drone dropping propaganda on them last I heard and they blew up a roadway leading south. So there goes any real talks for now I'd imagine. Still SK are bastards for trying what they did.

      • Cowbee [he/him, they/them]
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        They've also dissolved peace talk committees, to my knowledge, and are severing diplomatic ties. This to me seems more like hunkering down, you'd figure they would keep talks open during wartime as the goal would be to have favorable surrender conditions for the ROK to the DPRK. Just my uninformed guess, that's why I am asking if anyone knows more.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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    2 months ago

    Russia.

    Russia invaded Ukraine blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, blah blah blah/blah blah blah blah blah. Blah, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah/blah, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah- blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.

    Blah blah, blah blah blah (blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah) blah're blah blah blah blah blah blah- blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.

    Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah's blah blah and sow chaos in hopes of getting Trump elected.

    Jonestown_Juice comments on North Korea Claims Mobilisation of 1.4 Million Youth for "Holy War"

  • TechnoUnionTypeBeat [he/him, they/them]
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    2 months ago

    This is unfortunately not a parody. I know a significant amount of people who truly, deeply believe this. They truly believe that Russia is simultaneously the puppetmaster behind all the world's evil and suffering and yet so incompetent as to be a failing state and laughing stock

    Plenty of people I know personally believe Russia actually ordered the attacks on Israel specifically to distract the US and redirect weaponry from Ukraine to Israel

    • carpoftruth [any, any]
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      2 months ago

      When I was in grade school I read a lot of Tom Clancy and spoiled the ending of debt of honour to my grade 5 teacher

      I think he was part mad because I spoiled the ending and part mad that he was reading the same geopolitical thrillers as a 10 year old

  • Tommasi [she/her, pup/pup's]
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    2 months ago

    Pretty sure this is about an average amount of detachment from reality for a worldnews poster

  • Dr_Gabriel_Aby [none/use name]
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    2 months ago

    Pretty awesome if Putin pulled this off. Would be the largest strategic victory for a US enemy since Osama Bin Laden made the empire kill itself with 9/11

  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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    2 months ago

    Same people that think Russia started the refugee crisis so Europeans could be racist and vote for the far-right.

    • Nakoichi [they/them]M
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      2 months ago

      Same people that think the country with the most nukes somehow also has not been able to maintain them meanwhile our nuclear infrastructure still relies on these

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  • Wheaties [she/her]
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    2 months ago

    The News has such a toxic fanbase, they'll post their fics anywhere but Ao3

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    2 months ago

    Pretty funny that someone with the username Jonestown_Juice is peddling Jim Jones style wackadoo theory

  • tripartitegraph [comrade/them]
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    2 months ago

    Some days I kinda wish I were this stupid. Life would be a lot simpler if it obeyed baby-brain lib logic