They resemble each other in that they are (or were in the soviet's case) built around fending off a massive invasion. The DPRK has artillery bunkers, the soviets had tank bunkers, etc...
@@yoloman3607 No, it was built to grind the enemy down during their initial offensive, then immediately counter attack, and as soon the advance slowed, dig in and repeat. There was no belief that NATO forces when dug in could be displaced by the red army with any reasonable level of success. They planned on crushing NATO offensives, then quickly advancing before NATO forces could reorganize.
@@92HazelMocha ????? Their entire doctrine is called the "deep strike" doctrine and their battle drills are built to mass firepower and obliterate defensive positions with "overwhelming shock". Almost all NATO predictions ended at least a partial Soviet victory in a conventional war leveraging their massive ground armies to sweep away NATO defense positions.
Hmmm ok , they are Hidden , but maybe you could Spot hints Things that are suspicious like relative good roads in an abondoned area for supplies, or something like this 😅 @@grobbs666
Very long artillery with massive damage ability. Look up irans revenge attack on US Base in iraq with ballistic missiles as revenge for the assassination of solemani.
The one thing I see rarely mentioned is the DPRK's incredibly sized chemical and biological weapon stockpiles. I would think they are more of a threat than their nuclear weapons stockpile due to abundance of both quantity and delivery systems. And I would hazard to guess that would be the grouping of weaapons theey would turn to before finally going nuclear in the event of a conflict going poorly. Due to that always being an ever present possibility and detterent I am certain this is one of the main reasons they are so comfortable trading massive amounts of standard artillery and missiles to Russia.
chemical and biological weapons are mostly terror weapons - they're not better at causing casualties compared to conventional munitions or incendiaries but they cause much more suffering. there's exceptions like wuhan-chan but the strength of that was really that people didn't know that they were sick and spread it everywhere. for DPRK where they have closed borders to everyone, biological weapons aren't really a major issue.
Chemical and biological weapons are generally not very effective against a prepared military foe. They’re great against civilians (so they’d probably be extremely effective against, say, Seoul) but use against military targets is usually not worth it.
@@Michael-wo6ld There's certain types of chemical and biological weapons which don't give a damn about preparations (higher end nerve agents that can eat away at filters quite rapidly, weaponized Anthrax, etc). This and South Korea's legendary level of corruption (even in the military) can mean preparedness for such a NBC hit could be much lower than expected.
you confused west-ukie relationsip with russian-korean ones. For exaple you got rid from falling from the skies super puma helis, and half of them already in the debris. One heli even carried avay to hell high ranking ukie official and bunch of kids, bc it landed on kindergarden. Look up ukraine super puma kindergarden in western sources if you dont believe me, lol
After Exporting Mountains Of 70 yrs old Artillary shells / artillaries and ammunition, North Korea is going to Get Hundreds Of Su-35, Su-57 Fighter jets along with New technologies. We don't need to be surprised If North Korea Starts Firing Khinzal Hyper Sonic Missiles Occasionally On South Korean High Tech / Arms Factories.
Good summary. I could see the DPRK sending a lot of old shells, which are useful to test or replace. In large numbers, even if many (1%-15%) do not go bang, they will provide a useful boon to RUS. Rockets and missiles even if old or inaccurate will still prove useful against urban and area targets and will help attrit UKR defenses. I don't see the DPRK contribution to be a game changer, but it will help RUS, and it should not be underestimated or minimized.
Improperly stored shells wear out barrels. Some rounds will blow up in the breech or just out of barrels killing crews. Only a finite amount of shells can be transported to firing points. Their troops' lives are counting on those rounds. You can't call carrying around 15% dud rounds a boon, especially if you have known logistics problems. If a round gets out of a barrel to range and is no splash, the crew is still subject to counter battery fires without the benefit of good effect on target.
@@MrSirlulzalot agree absolutely. What I mean is that a lot of shells would have to be inspected and discarded before being sent to the front or fired. Probably giving Rus logistics in doing this.
Ammo of any type will degrade over time. Improper storage will make that worse, so the quality if what NK sends is an open question, but I've shot 1930s rifle ammo that was 100% reliable & 1960s ammo that was not. The first was stored properly while the second obviously wasn't.
The thing that fascinates me most about the DPRK and what we don't get to see enough of is what do their small arms look like and how do their fighters look when they fly, the skill level of their pilots etc.
oh you just have to look deeper, they have quite a lot of equipment, all of it is self made by this point, enough footage of the factories they were built at too, they can produce over 20 heavy missile artillery systems in just a few months which is a gigantic achievement considering they were made in a factory built to make argicultural tractors with also the lack of robots and the issues of power outages, (they need gigantic amounts of electricity to weld with a gigantic workforce like theirs that work on these war machines)
Their small arms are Soviet, same with their planes with some modernizations. Their pilots are good enough to fly patrols but they have little to no chance of success against a trained NATO pilot even if they had comparable planes and firepower. That's why the Kim dynasty would rather show off their brick-breaking soldiers.
Are you some sort of pilot training expert? Even if you saw footage you would have no idea if they are performing well or poorly because you don’t know anything about the subject.
One of the things I have always been curious about was NK's UAVs and their current capacity and doctrine. It seems like it could be a dark horse asset for underminding SK's infrastructure.
Could be but only if you forget that outside of commercial drones which are too small larger drones like TB2's, Shaheeds, and US Reaper drones can be shot down by missile systems from the 80's as well as MANPAD teams and more traditional AA units such as we have seen in Ukraine where they had city police and border patrol units roaming cities to shoot down the drones after they were spotted. Could Drones do damage yes but that's a two way street and without aeriel superiority which NK can never hope to achieve Larger drones which do the real damage are mincemeat.
@@icecoldpolitics8890 well I know they were very big on the kamikaze drones being a cornerstone of the asset and that was more of a factor for public utilities being the vulnerability undersaturation. I'm just curious if the quality with numbers can surpass day 1 or even a little bit afterwards with all the countermeasure examples you brought up.
I would think that if they do have any notable UAV capabilities, it would be on par or less so than what Iran can bring to a war. If this is true, then those drones should be easy to intercept, and if any get through it wouldn't be enough to cause significant damage to SK infrastructure.
North Korea developed MQ-9 UCAV clone armed with Hellfire missile clone along 100kg glide bombs. Another UAV they have is clearly based on RQ-4 Global Hawk.
I think it would be incredibly hard to integrate those soldiers into the Russian army and keep them in line. Think about moral, language barrier, training etc.
@@AsgardVenture seperate battalions, like the axis and allies had during ww2, special belgian and dutch ss divisions, or french and polish divisions in the US army, that sort of stuff
@@AsgardVenture there is no language barrier if ya have 300.000 guys ....some generals get to know both Korean and Russian to follow the orders of M.O.D. and the soldiers just have their own platoons and companies ....morale for the Russian army cant go much lower .... and training has reached equal levels too .....the USSR never used human wave tactics, despite the western propaganda, however modern Russia does use them.....why ? because modern day Russia is an oligarchic joke, cosplaying as half of the nation they were previously ....and i mean half literally in terms of population
A thought just popped into my head- 9:02 the amount that North Korea will give is limited. So maybe China is making imitation NK shells in their factories, routing them through Korea to Russia
The USA and UN supply like 30 percent of their food... I found this out while stationed in south Korea and being in detail with ROK unloading ships in pusan and convoying up to freedom bridge.. 1992 and again in 2004.. and it still goes on today.
@@peterisawesomeplease Check the UN reports on the subject. In a communist state fixated on military and weapons production, there is little room for agricultural development. SK and US propaganda aside, NK imports of food from SK(Yes, NK imports rice from its enemies, just like the USSR did) and food imports were, as of july 2023 75% of 2019 total. Agricultural output dropped 180,000 tonnes last year. Furthermore, the regime cracked down on small private markets during 2020 and 2021
I wondered about this before, how many shells did the actually produce in the last 30 years, given the economic situation and everything that was going on?
I can guarantee North Korea has more artillery shells than most likely adversaries, possibly even the US. They have generations of people expecting the West to invade at any time. They don't have much of any other basics of life, but they are ready to protect themselves from an invasion.
The DPRK is like a hive world from the Imperium of Man dedicated to military production. Each city dedicated to a specific part of munitions production.
The article does not talk about possible trade offs NK could make in terms of what it's getting in return for the delivered MLRS missiles delivered to Russia. Russia has a lot to offer NK that could make NK supply more of the Rockets than initially thought possible
Its no coincidence that North Korea now has a spy satellite. They can easily send rocket scientists or at least plans to teach them how to Rocket Science.
Thank you for your analysis. Who would have foreseen at the start of the invasion that Putin would be humbled to making overtures to N Korea to keep their military treading water.
@@icecoldpolitics8890pushing back Russia where ? it has been quite a while since the counter offensive has gained territory around robotino and Backmut, in fact it seems like Russian has been capturing territory all over the front line, especially around Backmut and adviika.
@@mcmelonmaster Zip lock bag? Clearly you're a western imperialist who never wrapped his rations in cabbage leaves. A most intelligent ration wrapping cause it is ration wrapped in more ration.
I absolutely love the visuals! Did you have any inspiration from Kamome? I have to say between between your satellite imagery, Kamome's visual style of presentation, and Perun's amazing presentations its quite the toss up every week for who will release the best content!
some people dont seem to notice in the comment section that a gun is still a gun, even if its made by a child, if it works it will be able to kill you, just know how shinzo abe died, a terribly made 4 barrel gun using steel bearings as rounds and pressure as propulsion, and it killed a former prime minister. and any army would rather have well over 5000 makeshift artillery guns rather than 100 artillery guns made in a purpose built factory, as the latter gets more rounds down range quicker ukraine is a good example, they'd rather use vans and pickup trucks to move their troops than purpose built military transport trucks despite the military transport trucks being made for specifically that task
Bad example. One guy popping a cap in one guy is an isolated event. Now try to scale it up. You can make a hair comb with a 3d printer. Now try to make a million. You'll need millions of USD in investment to make a factory that uses injection molding, because your home 3d printer can't squirt out a million products. 100 artillery pieces that get rounds on target can nail 5000 pieces that can't hit a farm let alone the broad side of a barn.
Yeah, except this is a conflict where technology actually matters. A junky North Korean-supplied D-20 howitzer can kill people, but in Ukraine it'll get smashed by drones or a HIMARS rocket fired from triple the gun's max range.
@@ChucksSEADnDEADlet's add some math to that last statement. Let's imagine those 5000 guns have a 10% accuracy, low even for an unguided 152 mm gun, against the 100% accuracy of the 100 artillery pieces: in that case it's one single exchange and 500 shells hit their target, immediately destroying every single artillery piece and only taking 100 casualties. Ok then, the 5000 guns only have an accuracy of 1%, even so they take 2 rounds each to destroy every artillery piece, this time taking something like 150 casualties. Ok then, 0.1% accuracy against 100%, they still win. This time they take something like 25 rounds each and 1000 casualties. "They have low accuracy" is not going to save you from pure change and one lucky HE-FRAG on it's way to wiping you out the face of the earth.
@@tomk3732 I wouldn't say so. Equipping current DPRK forces with 2nd gen NVG's would cost around 5.2 billion USD, around an eight of the DPRK's assumed GDP. I'd assume their special forces have their hands on at least gen 2 NVG's, but not their standard ground forces. Compared to that, practically every soldier in the US Army would have access to at least gen 2 NVG's, and their more elite forces likely have access to Gen 3 NVG's.
@@rick7424 Today this is a non issue - most of their tanks have thermals and all of their equipment has some form of night vision. Come on - we are talking here about tech that existed since WWII.
On one hand it could certainly be a benefit for Russia and if we agree that the Koreans would be getting some sort of modernization in turn it'd be a win-win situation for them. As for "Turning the tide", last time I checked Ukraine's "tide" was a small wave of foam that dissolved into Robotyne.
I looked into the TTP Doctrine of the DPRK and I could honestly say their tactics pretty good and intriging. The SOF of N. Korea is the one you have to worry about.
If you have two evenly matched, stalemated forces (which you’ve basically had for a year now in Ukraine), every little bit of help matters. Getting millions of extra artillery shells from North Korea will matter, especially when enthusiasm for aid to Ukraine is dimming. The Iranian aid alone flipped the drone balance of terror on the front, despite Iran not being a great military power in most respects.
Shaded managed to hit a few civilian facilities, not flip the drone balance. Both sides seem to have pretty equal drone capability, with russia being slower to adopt it, but having a numbers advantage of larger, higher flying drones, while ukraine was quick to adopt smaller recon and strike drones, but lacks the signficant amount of longer ranged and larger drones russia has. Lancet was a more important advancement on the drone front than shaded.
@@rollercoasterintogiantdomo You . . sure? Shaded can't hit the broad side of a barn, and its slow as hell. Anti air defence work is nowhere near what it was meant to do, its a sky moped with a bomb meant to saturate air defences to hit large civilian facilities. Are you sure that you aren't thinking of Lancet? Lancet is accurate and much faster and smaller than a shaded, and it has actually scored kills against air defence systems, unlike the shaded.
@@jurajsintaj6644 Shaded has 50kg of explosive warhead while Lancet 5kg!..if you havent seen shaheed vs strategic targets is because shahed lack of camera , beside in Ukraine is not allowed to post videos.
@@jurajsintaj6644 Lancet is more effective in terms of real-time battlefield intel and smaller targets, but Shahed is the greater threat to strategic targets and a big drain on air defenses. In any case, hundreds upon hundreds of Shaheds showing up when Russia was reeling certainly helped turn the tide. There was a Reuters article out the other week where Ukrainian drone pilots themselves admitted they’d lost their early superiority in FPVs, and clearly Shahed played its part.
The EU is a retirement home slash welfare state. The EU didn't see a point when it can piggy back off the US. Only the dissolution of NATO would see a return of European arms...probably to fight other Europeans instead of Russia or Iran.
The North Korean army would be very good fighting a defensive war, but would have distinct limitations in an offensive war. Being a rigidly totalitarian system officers will tend to wait for 'orders from above' rather than taking the initiative with 'on the ground' decisions. In a defensive war this doesn't matter too much but it is a massive weakness when fighting against a far more flexible enemy.
Makes sense though. Why would North Korea need to fight an offensive war, there was never any plan to, at least since the USSR collapsed and they fell behind ROK.
Ngl, there soldiers must be tough af , imagine being fed almost nothing proper for most your life and becoming a soldier , marching and parading for hours to please your dictator. gotta give them some credit
North Korean food supplies are stable now as they have been since the 90s famines caused by the collapse of the USSR. Also, every country has parades, maybe DPRK is a little overzealous, yes
No evidence ever provided for such bold assertions and people grasp about Yeonpyeong bombardment when those were rockets with thermobaric warheads which at the time were unknown for NK to possess with NK being only one that apparently developed such warhead for 122mm rockets.
Nah, people use routinely ammo that is 50+ years old. Some used WWI ammo. It is all good. Chemicals used are very stable. I would be more worried about accuracy which due to primitive production may not be as good - but not a huge difference here either.
They work in South Korean factories in exchange for goods and money aswell. Suppose you forgot about that... They also have an unofficial construction Companys in middle east aswell as South East Asia.
I would guess that the basic shell from North Korea can have its detonator replaced. As well as its primer too if applicable. NK weapons were used by Hamas during the Oct 7 attack on Israel, so they can be effective.
the deal Korea made with Russia is kind of a win-win. Russians would get millions of shells in exchange for the trade deals, and Koreans would get rid of old stock for modern arms.
Not to mention they get to play middle man for Chinese equipment sales. Going to and through NK is a pretty good move on the Kremlins part. Might even get to see N Koreans get to a healthy weight out of the deal. All the food flowing into NK.
@@norm3380 The logistics, circumstances, and distances involved almost certainly mean no significant food aid is flowing from Russia into NK. It's a huge distance from Russia's breadbaskets to NK and also Russia's at war. They need that food themselves to feed their troops considering a fair number of their farmers were conscripted. As reported previously, they most likely traded satellite and ballistic missile tech or similar for the NK munitions.
@@norm3380 No China isn't going to help Russia with weapons. the question is what could China possible gain by suppling weapons? Only a desperate bear is a good bear.
@commie5211 Define weapons and define help. Lol. China is supplying Russia with all kinds of things, drones, generators, trucks, earth moving equipment, processed food rations, intelligence, supplying Hamas with just enough equipment to get them to act a fool to distract Americans. Etc etc. What would China gain? Well Money for one, A better ally for second, a stable Russia instead of a Balkinised multi ethnic shitshow with nukes involved. Not sure there is a real downside for China helping Russia. The only thing China isn't entirely sure of is how we would react if they were selling weapons and if it mattered what we thought.
DPRK is a funny name for North Korea... That's like selling your potato chips as "Healthy Flavorful Vegetable Slices". Do you really expect to fool anybody with that?
@@theotherohlourdespadua1131 It is funny because the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea" is not democratic, is not a republic and it is not run by the people. 3/4th of the name are just empty words that sound nice.
@@Boz196 North Korea is more akin to an absolute monarchy than a democracy. The Kim family has been ruling the country uninterruptedly for 3 generations. And the next leader will be determined by blood line as well. Kim Il Sung was never voted into his position by the people of Korea. He was installed by Stalin as the ruler of Soviet-occupied Korea. And by the way: You're wrong about the meaning of the word democracy. It comes from the greek words demos = people and kratos = rule. It doesn't mean "elected by the people" it means "ruled by its people" as opposed to a king who does whatever the fu** he wants. Why do you even defend North Korea's claim of being a democracy? Are you a Tankie?
Acording to an interview with Alejandro Cao de Benós a North Korean official, he said that if a war would break out between the US and the DPRK that everyone knows how to shoot a gun and defend as early as high school. He claimed that the DPRK had enough weapons to arm everyone. If they wanted to North Korea could mobilize 20 million troops.
Lol, Alejandro cao de benos is a North Korea shill, a modern army dosent care people carry or not guns, the technology and elite militias are 99 pero cent of war, You canot stop a low Quality drone with a gun.
@@jurajsintaj6644 nothing is wrong with it, but he's content lately is everything based into it. It's getting pretty boring. I think he got obsessed buying satellite images. I missed the old content where he make analysis on equipment like patriot, s-400, tanks etc.
How can such a poor country provide so much militarily? Duh by basically treating the citizens like garbage. Lots of money to spend when you don’t care about Citizens.
Yes, the numbers look impressive for a nation that has not faced incoming fire for 70+ years. Static, shooting gallery training is worthless. Large stockpiles of ammunition that is aging in these tunnel fortresses for decades is not fine wine, it doesn't improve with age. As for their generals... a chest of 'perfect attendance' and 'good old boy' medals is not the same as battlefield experience. Bottom line, parade ground soldiers are just that, poor actors with pretty uniforms.
If I were Kim visiting Moscovia, I would decline the tea and stay away from any windows. (It's not polite to make Vlad feel like he's your biatch!) Of course neither of them are very good at intimidating their enimies.
4:50 America has munitions that are designed to penetrate places like this, I’m sure they’ve given South Korea These. Mission is well not to mention South Korea knows North Korean plans of defence as well so I bet they prepared and drilled for the situation’s.
Pretty sure someone has made the comparison before, but couldn’t N Korea be the modern pop culture equivalent of Sparta? A heavily monitored state of complete subservience, basically helot slave labor if you get on their bad side, dictatorial rule, and a very long mandatory military service with the military running the state. It would be horrific but also interesting if by using nukes as deterrence, they could send out hundreds of thousands of mercenaries to conflict zones nearing Russia and the Middle East. Basically like how they send out laborers, but mercenaries instead, and to see how much revenue it’d generate for N Korea since mercenary work probably pays a lot more than laborers. Could be a multimillion or even billion dollar industry in that case for N Korea.
Interesting comparison, but N.K. has a smaller population than every neighbor by at least half. I don't think KJU would willingly deprive his manpower near the DMZ just to help an ally or risk his soldiers getting any exposure to foreign culture. NK also has no long range logistics capability to to support an expeditionary force.
sparta was not a dictatorship thou. It had a dual monarchy, and a lawgiving body with two chambers. It had indeed very effective checks and balances, to prevent a dictatorship.
@J-IFWBR Well I suppose that would really depend on segment of the population of Laconia you would ask. The governing population in North Korea does have a balancing act between the Kim family, Military, Bureaucracy and Politburo. It really comes down to who writes the history book. Lol.
Funny watching the North Korean military training videos and those tactical rolls a few of the troops did that serve no purpose. It reminded me of the VDV videos and the useless things they do.
All armies still do them if not just for physical training. I know in my western country we are taught that It is actually beneficial when falling after a run depending on the circumstance.
@@supa3ek Martial arts training always starts with that. Classic Judo Ukemi, etc. It's important to know how to get down, fall down as safely as possible and how to get up, and how to set up your gear in a way it gets in the way of movement as little as possible. Then again, there have also been backflip tomahawk throwing and other silly things like that...
People have been meat riding in the war ever since it started and it goes to show how much misinformation and propaganda both sides show it’s hilarious
@6:10 Something seems off. Looking at how these tubes often jerk around more than sway, suggest there's quite little inertia (=> little mass). I suspect these to be empty. If the ones at the outer propaganda shutterbug lines are empty, I can't imagine the rest of the ~300 tubes are any better. It could be that they're just not loaded for the parade, but they have the looks of a sealed unit.
Proxy wars are the best way to get experience and not affect DPRK directly. Case in point: Iran should ask Putin to let an Iranian Army division carry out missions for Russia and use a mix of Iranian and Russian weapons. The Iranian general in charge of his forces in Ukraine would meet with a Russian general specifically tasked with assigning missions to Iranian forces. The Iranian general and his field commanders take it from there. No reason why Kim shouldn't find this to be a great experience for his forces. Maybe put them on point and have them clear the path for Russian forces to approach and take Kiev.
This is not a Russian doctrine but more of Iranian doctrine based more on terror and intimidation then real power. They rely on fixed artillery positions which do protect the pieces but don't protect the logistics to supply them. Also those don't have any flexibility. I.e. if opposing forces appear outside their limited field of fire they can't be fired upon. A little demonstration of the weakness of fixed positions with limited field of fire is what happened to Hamas. Hamas still has a vast arsenal of rockets but it can't use them on IDF forces in the strip as the direction can't be changed. It's reaching absurd situation that Hamas can bombard cities but can't do anything against IDF field HQs. The same will happen to NK, they can bombard Seoul but if the US uses amphibious capability they will not able to use their artillery to defend the capital.
NK military is 90+% defense based, and it's done on purpose. NK not only stockpiles shell - they produce them, so RU may contract their production capacity.
This is _heavily_ counterbalanced by North Korea's *EXTREME* distance from where the shells need to go. There is literally _an entire Russia_ between it and its destination. They unironically would have been better off being further away because at that point shipping would have been easier and more convenient. Relying on NK stockpiles only means further strain on Russia's already overtaxed railway network.
@@korayven9255 you are not correct, train carts need to travel back anyway. So RU supplies NK with smth l, and on the way back - shells. Also, they have ports.
@@hhkk6155It requires them shipping it all the way from DPRK to a Russian port. (Vladivostok, polar ports, St. Petersburg are inaccessible this time of year). Black Sea is dangerous, and I don’t know if they’re allowed to go there. I think Murmansk is still accessible though.
North Korea has sent more shells to Russia in a few months than the entire EU... Also NK is actually pretty dangerous militarily hence South Korea being heavily militarized by Western standards and a large US contingent which will be surged in conflict as they don't consider North Korea easy to beat.
Interesting, thanks. Considering they're sitting on what could be the world's largest shell stockpile, I guess they can spare a million for the fascist down the road. I'll bet Putin paid dearly for them tho. Kim didn't get that fat by sharing.
mechanized warfare plays the most important part in modern conflicts, even the poorest african warlord skirmishes have a good amount of hiluxes speeding around. DPRK, on the other hand while maintaining such a huge army, has so little oil, their pilots struggles to keep up with sufficient flight hours.
While the European countries failed to supply 1 million artillery shells to Ukraine, most heavily Sanctioned North Korea has been able to supply the same to Russia. How ironic is that.
@@tempejklThe "peace deal" was a farce that absolutely no one would accept, nothing more than a falsehood for a talking point that idiots like yourself could waste people's time with.
1:26 "They do not, technically have separate military services" Proceeds to show 5 services + other less major services. The "Army" in this sense is equivalent to "Armed Forces", just like China have the PLA - The People's Liberation *ARMY*, -Ground Force, -Navy, -Air Force, -Navy Marine Corps (PLAGF, PLAAF, PLANMC) exactly the same. Are you seriously going to suggest they don't have different services? A minute and a half in and already off to a shaky start.
He means "branches" as in chain of command. It is different in the sense where the US has its different branches technically separate with their own chain of command, and own sort of independence of other service branches, whereas in the case of NK, all branches are presumably under the same chain of command, and do not really operate independently of of one another.
Well, north Korea has one of the biggest artillery munition stockpiles in the world, and artillery shells get expended pretty fast. Even the US would be asking for help from south Korea if it were in Russia's situation
@@maximilianodelrio exactly, its crazy that people genuinely think that Russia (the largest military on the planet) is actually on its last legs because less than 1/3rd its active duty are stationed in the donbas and even less than them are actually fighting
No. Red Army doctrine is based on swift attack and mechanised weapons. Maybe in WW2 when things were desperate you are right, but no one was taken care of (Stalin and Zhukov stayed in Moscow when Germans were still close in order to protect the city)
@@tempejkl well they still do this ,, not openly ,,, you can see in Ukraine,, imagine if you have 1 Millions people and and 10% of them is competent that will be a hundred thousand people
@@megadwipayana5544 That’s not the red army though, that’s the Russian army. Things have changed since Soviet times, even though a lot of Soviet equipment is still used.
@@tempejkl they are same people mate the flag change but the doctrine not see how ez they used their comrade as a Cannon fodder ???? That exactly what the red army do also mass produce simple and cheap equipment for infantry that prove they still use that doctrine
the accuracy of your information is suspect or doubtful because its all American talking points based on what source inside the north korean military. because only they can know, everyone else is guessing or lying.
If you have a reliable source of info that's working in the DPRK ISF or army I'm sure there's plenty of people out there who would love you to share that.
4.1k aircraft in various and likely poor condition, and most haven't been used because Russia can't do jack shit to take out Ukraine's air defenses. That means that any attempt to fly over the front line to strike targets would result in a Russian aircraft having a pretty hard landing.
Actually the reference that DPRK would attack and if successful but if not, rely on the West to hold back in the face of massive casualties (Even if that referred to their own). In the Gulf war, a commentator on the BBC was hysterical about Iraqi casualties before destroyed on road back to Iraq, ceasefire now etc. Of course Bush did ceasefire and the Iraqi army escaped, no doubt the Kurds and Shia rebels who had risen against Saddam were overjoyed at this blatant betrayal and the subsequent massacres that resulted. In fact Hamas have done the same, launch the atrocity of 7 October and get the Marxists and Islamists in the West to call for a ceasefire.
its hilarious to see the west essentially realize "maybe our enemies are not the cartoonishly incompetent villains we make them out to be and there is a lot more nuance to the situation than is usually let on
Pride cometh before the fall, and there lot of Pride in the West. Hell, most people don't realize how militarized and obscenely disproportionate is SOUTH KOREAN artillery. In terms of shells they outproduce USA & EU put together.
I guess you never heard of the Maginot line? Fixed fortress type installations have proved useless in modern warfare. Those Koreans will be entombed under their mountains. Yes they are incompetent villains without a doubt, but still very dangerous. That's the nuance. Or was it something else?
No matter what NK is about to supply Russia with,numbers is what matters. As Stalin said,quantity always turns into quality. Both Russians and Koreans understand that
I love simplifying warfare to simple quotes made by civilian leaders who famously failed at leading armies ( the USSR only managed to start gaining success after massive lend lease from the west, and when stalin stopped trying to micromanage everything military wise ) Numbers matter just as much as quality. 1 Million soldiers don't matter if you can't feed them. 1 thousand tanks don't matter if you can't fuel them, 1 million shells don't matter if you don't have replacement barrels for your artillery. Its honestly kinda funny that russia, which seemed to have "endless" stocks of soviet weapons and ammo, has been reduced to importing weapons from north korea.
If western countries continue to sit on their hands then sure. Otherwise no chance. Artillery is a decisive class of weapon only in environments where means to counter it are limited or absent. The western way of war deals with artillery with airpower and ground launched missiles, among other things. If we provided sufficient such means to neuter it, artillery would lose its prominence in this conflict and thus so would the contributions DPRK might make. And even if western countries continue failing to locate their balls, it must be said that DPRK does not have large amount of shells in the caliber used types by most Russian tube artillery, that being 152 mm.
Exactly - this is why it is certain Ukraine will loose the war - they are out gunned 5:1 in artillery alone not to mention air power and long range missiles or drones. And they will not be given by the west 100s of aircraft or similar assets to counter Russia to even make it 3:1 in favor of Russia. To make it 1:1 would be near impossible - especially now that over 40% of Americans say US is doing to much in Ukraine.
@@tomk3732 Ukraine began the war outgunned about 10:1 in tubes and 5:1 shells fired. Despite that, Russia has lost about half the territory it captured in its early surprise blitz. So the disparity in artillery did not provide Russia a decisive advantage. Moreover, as with most platforms, it has narrowed. Shells fired for example are down to maybe 2:1 and parity during Ukrainian offensives. There's several reasons for this, e.g. poor Russian doctrine, training and morale, insufficient manpower, the destruction of ammo dumps with HIMARS, etc. Not sure what poll you have in mind. Most I've seen are c. 60% support, 30% don't support, 10% don't know. When info about Russian losses is provided alongside the question it rises to 65% support. If your party wins 60 to 30 that would be called a landslide victory.
@@williamhenry8914 Of course lol. Artillery is a decisive weapon in war. That is why Ukraine has far greater losses than Russia. Imagine, Ukraine instead of defending itself, it attacks Russia. Ukrainians attack fortified Russian positions through kilometers of minefields and are bombarded with artillery. They attack the best prepared positions. It's no wonder they couldn't break through the first line of defense. When Ukraine exhausts its resources, Russia will occupy as much as it wants. No one believes in the nonsense you state.
@@williamhenry8914 Most of the territory Russia lost it did not control as it invaded with an army smaller then the defender and of tiny size for territory it supposedly occupied. The major factor here was heavy use of armor which gave tiny Russian army mobility and fire power advantage. The artillery advantage did not narrow - Ukraine has far fewer systems now than at the start of the war and fires less now - by wide margin - than in the first month of the war. Russian gamble to encircle Kiev was due to 1:1 artillery parity - i.e. Russia did not have advantage. I use gallup poll. Well know. "41% of Americans say U.S. is doing too much to support Ukraine" "61% of Americans say the financial aid Ukraine receives from Washington should have limits" - so yes, by a landslide American public is saying that help should be limited and rather significant minority says its too much. Also gallup shows the trend is increasing - so by spring we may have more than 41% saying too much. Russian losses are UA losses divided by 3 or so, at least.
Ukraine seem to have more and more problems getting new soldiers to the frontline. Sadly it seems like Ukraine will simply have to lose some of its territory officially. Or else they will simply run out of battle capable men who are ready to die. Men who were taken off the streets by force but don’t want to fight are not greatest soldiers.
@@moritamikamikara3879What he said is easily verifiable. Reporting a fact doesn't make you a Russian stooge, it just means you're not high on copium. lol Ukrainians themselves are starting to say the same thing.
Ah yes, the latest Russian talking point. Ukraine might as well give up now because they obviously have no chance. In case you haven't been paying attention, Russia's manpower situation is not much better. Sure, the Russian population is more than 3x that of Ukraine, but Putin is well aware of the fact that he cannot fully mobilize it. As long as it is Siberians and Muslims from the Stans dying Muscovites won't raise too much of a stink. Start sending more of those white kids from Moscow and St. Petersburg to be ground up at the front and then we'll see what happens. It is obvious that Putin understands this all too well. If he thought otherwise, Russia would have fully mobilized long ago. How's the weather in St. Petersburg?
@@cruise_missile8387 "Easily verifiable" yeah through pro-Russian telegram videos showing always the same "Ukrainian" recruiter who walks like he has a stick up his behind. And always wearing a balaclava too.
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It's hard to say the KPA resembles a Soviet army when the Soviet army was almost 100% mechanized compared to a 93% un-mechanized KPA.
They resemble each other in that they are (or were in the soviet's case) built around fending off a massive invasion. The DPRK has artillery bunkers, the soviets had tank bunkers, etc...
@@92HazelMocha The Soviet Doctrine wasn't about fending off invasion, their idea of defense was mass counter invasion using their mechanized forces.
@@yoloman3607 No, it was built to grind the enemy down during their initial offensive, then immediately counter attack, and as soon the advance slowed, dig in and repeat. There was no belief that NATO forces when dug in could be displaced by the red army with any reasonable level of success. They planned on crushing NATO offensives, then quickly advancing before NATO forces could reorganize.
@@92HazelMocha ????? Their entire doctrine is called the "deep strike" doctrine and their battle drills are built to mass firepower and obliterate defensive positions with "overwhelming shock". Almost all NATO predictions ended at least a partial Soviet victory in a conventional war leveraging their massive ground armies to sweep away NATO defense positions.
@@92HazelMocha Any good recommended reading sources for more on that?
Next video: CovertCabal buys up a whole bunch of satellite imagery to count up all the hidden gun emplacements.
Hidden seems to be the key word haha. Ain't no way he could count them lol
Hmmm ok , they are Hidden , but maybe you could Spot hints Things that are suspicious like relative good roads in an abondoned area for supplies, or something like this 😅
@@grobbs666
Glad I'm not the only one who considers ballistic missiles to just be, essentially, very long range artillery.
i mean, ballistic, it’s in the name of
very long range artillery with a small tinge of radioactivity
Very long artillery with massive damage ability. Look up irans revenge attack on US Base in iraq with ballistic missiles as revenge for the assassination of solemani.
@@eduarddv00ballistic doesn’t mean nuclear
@@dakotareid1566 yea but they can very well be
The one thing I see rarely mentioned is the DPRK's incredibly sized chemical and biological weapon stockpiles.
I would think they are more of a threat than their nuclear weapons stockpile due to abundance of both quantity and delivery systems. And I would hazard to guess that would be the grouping of weaapons theey would turn to before finally going nuclear in the event of a conflict going poorly.
Due to that always being an ever present possibility and detterent I am certain this is one of the main reasons they are so comfortable trading massive amounts of standard artillery and missiles to Russia.
chemical and biological weapons are mostly terror weapons - they're not better at causing casualties compared to conventional munitions or incendiaries but they cause much more suffering. there's exceptions like wuhan-chan but the strength of that was really that people didn't know that they were sick and spread it everywhere. for DPRK where they have closed borders to everyone, biological weapons aren't really a major issue.
Also, Seoul is close, imagine that city coming under arty fire...
Chemical and biological weapons are generally not very effective against a prepared military foe. They’re great against civilians (so they’d probably be extremely effective against, say, Seoul) but use against military targets is usually not worth it.
Still not near as much of a threat as the United States.
@@Michael-wo6ld
There's certain types of chemical and biological weapons which don't give a damn about preparations (higher end nerve agents that can eat away at filters quite rapidly, weaponized Anthrax, etc). This and South Korea's legendary level of corruption (even in the military) can mean preparedness for such a NBC hit could be much lower than expected.
NK found a cheap way to get rid of their oldest and least reliable ammunition. Not only get rid of old shells, but extract high end aid from Russia.
Plus, they've managed to turn Russia into their Vassal state.
Yeah, North Korea is getting the better end of the deal than Russia
you confused west-ukie relationsip with russian-korean ones. For exaple you got rid from falling from the skies super puma helis, and half of them already in the debris. One heli even carried avay to hell high ranking ukie official and bunch of kids, bc it landed on kindergarden. Look up ukraine super puma kindergarden in western sources if you dont believe me, lol
After Exporting Mountains Of 70 yrs old Artillary shells / artillaries and ammunition, North Korea is going to Get Hundreds Of Su-35, Su-57 Fighter jets along with New technologies. We don't need to be surprised If North Korea Starts Firing Khinzal Hyper Sonic Missiles Occasionally On South Korean High Tech / Arms Factories.
They were sold junk shells by the Russians and are now selling them back.
Source that its oldest and least reliable?
Oh Nevermind, you dont have it.
Good summary. I could see the DPRK sending a lot of old shells, which are useful to test or replace. In large numbers, even if many (1%-15%) do not go bang, they will provide a useful boon to RUS. Rockets and missiles even if old or inaccurate will still prove useful against urban and area targets and will help attrit UKR defenses. I don't see the DPRK contribution to be a game changer, but it will help RUS, and it should not be underestimated or minimized.
Improperly stored shells wear out barrels.
Some rounds will blow up in the breech or just out of barrels killing crews.
Only a finite amount of shells can be transported to firing points. Their troops' lives are counting on those rounds.
You can't call carrying around 15% dud rounds a boon, especially if you have known logistics problems.
If a round gets out of a barrel to range and is no splash, the crew is still subject to counter battery fires without the benefit of good effect on target.
@@MrSirlulzalot agree absolutely. What I mean is that a lot of shells would have to be inspected and discarded before being sent to the front or fired. Probably giving Rus logistics in doing this.
Ammo of any type will degrade over time. Improper storage will make that worse, so the quality if what NK sends is an open question, but I've shot 1930s rifle ammo that was 100% reliable & 1960s ammo that was not. The first was stored properly while the second obviously wasn't.
The thing that fascinates me most about the DPRK and what we don't get to see enough of is what do their small arms look like and how do their fighters look when they fly, the skill level of their pilots etc.
they don't have the fuel to train their pilots well, most likely their pilots are worse than iraqi pilots. And that's not saying much.
oh you just have to look deeper, they have quite a lot of equipment, all of it is self made by this point, enough footage of the factories they were built at too, they can produce over 20 heavy missile artillery systems in just a few months which is a gigantic achievement considering they were made in a factory built to make argicultural tractors with also the lack of robots and the issues of power outages, (they need gigantic amounts of electricity to weld with a gigantic workforce like theirs that work on these war machines)
Their small arms are Soviet, same with their planes with some modernizations. Their pilots are good enough to fly patrols but they have little to no chance of success against a trained NATO pilot even if they had comparable planes and firepower.
That's why the Kim dynasty would rather show off their brick-breaking soldiers.
Are you some sort of pilot training expert? Even if you saw footage you would have no idea if they are performing well or poorly because you don’t know anything about the subject.
Stop coping 🧢 they have nukes AND delivery systems : ICBMs and nuke subs. They can easily do a emp attack on US disabling grid
One of the things I have always been curious about was NK's UAVs and their current capacity and doctrine. It seems like it could be a dark horse asset for underminding SK's infrastructure.
Could be but only if you forget that outside of commercial drones which are too small larger drones like TB2's, Shaheeds, and US Reaper drones can be shot down by missile systems from the 80's as well as MANPAD teams and more traditional AA units such as we have seen in Ukraine where they had city police and border patrol units roaming cities to shoot down the drones after they were spotted. Could Drones do damage yes but that's a two way street and without aeriel superiority which NK can never hope to achieve Larger drones which do the real damage are mincemeat.
@@icecoldpolitics8890 well I know they were very big on the kamikaze drones being a cornerstone of the asset and that was more of a factor for public utilities being the vulnerability undersaturation. I'm just curious if the quality with numbers can surpass day 1 or even a little bit afterwards with all the countermeasure examples you brought up.
I would think that if they do have any notable UAV capabilities, it would be on par or less so than what Iran can bring to a war. If this is true, then those drones should be easy to intercept, and if any get through it wouldn't be enough to cause significant damage to SK infrastructure.
North Korea developed MQ-9 UCAV clone armed with Hellfire missile clone along 100kg glide bombs.
Another UAV they have is clearly based on RQ-4 Global Hawk.
Plenty of recorded use.
The subtle background music makes these videos. It’s so ominous; it really sets the tone
the biggest threat from NK could be manpower .... imagine if they contract out 2-300k men to Russian PMC's
I think it would be incredibly hard to integrate those soldiers into the Russian army and keep them in line. Think about moral, language barrier, training etc.
NK is an hermit kingdom and any interaction between its citizens and the outside world is very dangerous for the stability of the system.
@@AsgardVenture Excellent point. NK soldiers have zero training and experience, they wouldn't last an day.
@@AsgardVenture seperate battalions, like the axis and allies had during ww2, special belgian and dutch ss divisions, or french and polish divisions in the US army, that sort of stuff
@@AsgardVenture there is no language barrier if ya have 300.000 guys ....some generals get to know both Korean and Russian to follow the orders of M.O.D. and the soldiers just have their own platoons and companies ....morale for the Russian army cant go much lower .... and training has reached equal levels too .....the USSR never used human wave tactics, despite the western propaganda, however modern Russia does use them.....why ? because modern day Russia is an oligarchic joke, cosplaying as half of the nation they were previously ....and i mean half literally in terms of population
Considering the fact that the Russian army says that North Korean shells don’t always fire is kinda a giveaway
Because they are very old and far beyond expiry date, I think.... 😁
On the contrary, they are of decent quality
@user-me5oq3kl4h maybe for 70 years ago
All this means is that Russia is using up NK’s old stockpile for them while NK’s stocks are supplied with TOS-1’s and Lancet Drones.
Need to revisit this one.
Much awaited, much appreciated looking forward to excellent insights as always from you.
A thought just popped into my head- 9:02 the amount that North Korea will give is limited. So maybe China is making imitation NK shells in their factories, routing them through Korea to Russia
The USA and UN supply like 30 percent of their food... I found this out while stationed in south Korea and being in detail with ROK unloading ships in pusan and convoying up to freedom bridge.. 1992 and again in 2004.. and it still goes on today.
Russia can easily provide them the food and agricultural means to develop their own agricultural base.
I don't believe this is currently correct. At various points in the past it was true but not today.
Same with Gaza, completely dependent on US and European food aid.
@@peterisawesomeplease Check the UN reports on the subject. In a communist state fixated on military and weapons production, there is little room for agricultural development. SK and US propaganda aside, NK imports of food from SK(Yes, NK imports rice from its enemies, just like the USSR did) and food imports were, as of july 2023 75% of 2019 total. Agricultural output dropped 180,000 tonnes last year. Furthermore, the regime cracked down on small private markets during 2020 and 2021
@@Gearparadummies None of the things you listed change the correctness of my statement. But interesting.
I wondered about this before, how many shells did the actually produce in the last 30 years, given the economic situation and everything that was going on?
probably a lot for global standards but that ain't saying much considering basically nobody was mass producing shells.
I can guarantee North Korea has more artillery shells than most likely adversaries, possibly even the US. They have generations of people expecting the West to invade at any time.
They don't have much of any other basics of life, but they are ready to protect themselves from an invasion.
@@icecoldpolitics8890also cold war end.
Huge number. They are very cheap.
My guess is a lot in the 80s and 2010s, and not do many in the 90s and 2000s when everything went to hell with their economy.
The DPRK is like a hive world from the Imperium of Man dedicated to military production. Each city dedicated to a specific part of munitions production.
The Emperor protects
Yeah and just like the Imperium it has completely stagnated technologically and only produces obsolete crap..
Big guns never tire
Democratic People's Republic of Krieg
The article does not talk about possible trade offs NK could make in terms of what it's getting in return for the delivered MLRS missiles delivered to Russia. Russia has a lot to offer NK that could make NK supply more of the Rockets than initially thought possible
as far as i heard, russia will buildt at least two nuklear powerplants for them.
Its no coincidence that North Korea now has a spy satellite. They can easily send rocket scientists or at least plans to teach them how to Rocket Science.
Thank you for your analysis. Who would have foreseen at the start of the invasion that Putin would be humbled to making overtures to N Korea to keep their military treading water.
Who would foresee that NAFO-LGTV is losing to a country with such small GDP 😂😂😂😂
U.S is doing the same with Pakistan and S.Korea.
@@hhkk6155what‘s NADO LGTV and who are they losing to??
@@hhkk6155 That's why Ukraine is still pushing back russia right? Cause Nato is losing to NK?
@@icecoldpolitics8890pushing back Russia where ? it has been quite a while since the counter offensive has gained territory around robotino and Backmut, in fact it seems like Russian has been capturing territory all over the front line, especially around Backmut and adviika.
I want to see what a north korean MRE looks like lol
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@@mcmelonmaster Zip lock bag? Clearly you're a western imperialist who never wrapped his rations in cabbage leaves.
A most intelligent ration wrapping cause it is ration wrapped in more ration.
North Korea took "ARTILLERY ONLY" to heart
I absolutely love the visuals! Did you have any inspiration from Kamome? I have to say between between your satellite imagery, Kamome's visual style of presentation, and Perun's amazing presentations its quite the toss up every week for who will release the best content!
some people dont seem to notice in the comment section that a gun is still a gun, even if its made by a child, if it works it will be able to kill you, just know how shinzo abe died, a terribly made 4 barrel gun using steel bearings as rounds and pressure as propulsion, and it killed a former prime minister. and any army would rather have well over 5000 makeshift artillery guns rather than 100 artillery guns made in a purpose built factory, as the latter gets more rounds down range quicker
ukraine is a good example, they'd rather use vans and pickup trucks to move their troops than purpose built military transport trucks despite the military transport trucks being made for specifically that task
Bad example. One guy popping a cap in one guy is an isolated event. Now try to scale it up. You can make a hair comb with a 3d printer. Now try to make a million. You'll need millions of USD in investment to make a factory that uses injection molding, because your home 3d printer can't squirt out a million products.
100 artillery pieces that get rounds on target can nail 5000 pieces that can't hit a farm let alone the broad side of a barn.
Yeah, except this is a conflict where technology actually matters. A junky North Korean-supplied D-20 howitzer can kill people, but in Ukraine it'll get smashed by drones or a HIMARS rocket fired from triple the gun's max range.
@@ChucksSEADnDEADNK shells are of a good quality - even UA soldiers confirm that
Yah, if they work and have the manpower they display
@@ChucksSEADnDEADlet's add some math to that last statement. Let's imagine those 5000 guns have a 10% accuracy, low even for an unguided 152 mm gun, against the 100% accuracy of the 100 artillery pieces: in that case it's one single exchange and 500 shells hit their target, immediately destroying every single artillery piece and only taking 100 casualties. Ok then, the 5000 guns only have an accuracy of 1%, even so they take 2 rounds each to destroy every artillery piece, this time taking something like 150 casualties. Ok then, 0.1% accuracy against 100%, they still win. This time they take something like 25 rounds each and 1000 casualties.
"They have low accuracy" is not going to save you from pure change and one lucky HE-FRAG on it's way to wiping you out the face of the earth.
North Korea woukd also struggle in nighttime engagements. Back in round 1 both sides had roughly the same equipment and darkness hampered both sides.
Maybe in thermals - a lot of other equipment of older gen is cheap.
@@tomk3732I doubt their tanks have night vision or thermal
@@tomk3732 I wouldn't say so. Equipping current DPRK forces with 2nd gen NVG's would cost around 5.2 billion USD, around an eight of the DPRK's assumed GDP. I'd assume their special forces have their hands on at least gen 2 NVG's, but not their standard ground forces. Compared to that, practically every soldier in the US Army would have access to at least gen 2 NVG's, and their more elite forces likely have access to Gen 3 NVG's.
@@EE-dj7et LOL, you are using US pricing - use cheap Asian pricing - we are talking maybe 100 - 150 USD per system.
@@rick7424 Today this is a non issue - most of their tanks have thermals and all of their equipment has some form of night vision. Come on - we are talking here about tech that existed since WWII.
They can take bulgogi from our cold dead hands
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On one hand it could certainly be a benefit for Russia and if we agree that the Koreans would be getting some sort of modernization in turn it'd be a win-win situation for them. As for "Turning the tide", last time I checked Ukraine's "tide" was a small wave of foam that dissolved into Robotyne.
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I see the KPA as a mostly defensive force, but someone once said, the best offence is a good defense.
I looked into the TTP Doctrine of the DPRK and I could honestly say their tactics pretty good and intriging. The SOF of N. Korea is the one you have to worry about.
If you have two evenly matched, stalemated forces (which you’ve basically had for a year now in Ukraine), every little bit of help matters. Getting millions of extra artillery shells from North Korea will matter, especially when enthusiasm for aid to Ukraine is dimming. The Iranian aid alone flipped the drone balance of terror on the front, despite Iran not being a great military power in most respects.
Shaded managed to hit a few civilian facilities, not flip the drone balance. Both sides seem to have pretty equal drone capability, with russia being slower to adopt it, but having a numbers advantage of larger, higher flying drones, while ukraine was quick to adopt smaller recon and strike drones, but lacks the signficant amount of longer ranged and larger drones russia has. Lancet was a more important advancement on the drone front than shaded.
@@jurajsintaj6644 Shahed is very effective. Even if it misses it's target, the threat alone keeps air defense systems away from the frontline.
@@rollercoasterintogiantdomo You . . sure? Shaded can't hit the broad side of a barn, and its slow as hell. Anti air defence work is nowhere near what it was meant to do, its a sky moped with a bomb meant to saturate air defences to hit large civilian facilities. Are you sure that you aren't thinking of Lancet? Lancet is accurate and much faster and smaller than a shaded, and it has actually scored kills against air defence systems, unlike the shaded.
@@jurajsintaj6644 Shaded has 50kg of explosive warhead while Lancet 5kg!..if you havent seen shaheed vs strategic targets is because shahed lack of camera , beside in Ukraine is not allowed to post videos.
@@jurajsintaj6644 Lancet is more effective in terms of real-time battlefield intel and smaller targets, but Shahed is the greater threat to strategic targets and a big drain on air defenses. In any case, hundreds upon hundreds of Shaheds showing up when Russia was reeling certainly helped turn the tide. There was a Reuters article out the other week where Ukrainian drone pilots themselves admitted they’d lost their early superiority in FPVs, and clearly Shahed played its part.
I hope to visit Venezuelia one day. I hear its Cabirrian sea coast is amazing.
It’s funny that little North Korea can send 1 million shells to an ally, but the entire European Union can’t
Europe is bunny rabbit soft.
It helps that North Korea is essentially a military base masquerading as a country that spends over half its revenue on the military...
The EU is a retirement home slash welfare state. The EU didn't see a point when it can piggy back off the US. Only the dissolution of NATO would see a return of European arms...probably to fight other Europeans instead of Russia or Iran.
EU spent its money on more productive things than explosive weaponry with a limited usable shelf life and no place to use them all before expiration.
It’s not funny, the North Koreans are starving, suppressed and have no other purpose than satisfying king fatty the turds fantasy of being a leader.
so funny to see they are all trained at the circus doing salto's and flipflops it's almost like belarus .
The North Korean army would be very good fighting a defensive war, but would have distinct limitations in an offensive war. Being a rigidly totalitarian system officers will tend to wait for 'orders from above' rather than taking the initiative with 'on the ground' decisions. In a defensive war this doesn't matter too much but it is a massive weakness when fighting against a far more flexible enemy.
we don’t know that
Exactly my thoughts
@@inf11 What we know is that their command structure is like the soviets, theirs soldiers cannot take initiative without orders from the higher up.
Makes sense though. Why would North Korea need to fight an offensive war, there was never any plan to, at least since the USSR collapsed and they fell behind ROK.
Ngl, there soldiers must be tough af , imagine being fed almost nothing proper for most your life and becoming a soldier , marching and parading for hours to please your dictator. gotta give them some credit
Propaganda
Wtf they do all day if they have little manufacturing. You can't even be a mechanic or tire changer, no cars.
@@noway57 They are training, you see how big their army is.
North Korean food supplies are stable now as they have been since the 90s famines caused by the collapse of the USSR. Also, every country has parades, maybe DPRK is a little overzealous, yes
By some accounts, the ammo that NK has provided to Russia is decades old and the failure rate is as high as 60%.
No evidence ever provided for such bold assertions and people grasp about Yeonpyeong bombardment when those were rockets with thermobaric warheads which at the time were unknown for NK to possess with NK being only one that apparently developed such warhead for 122mm rockets.
That's a very bold assumption. Artillery shells ans ammunition unlike missiles can be stored for very long periods of time without failing.
@@corvoattano4777 That depends on how they are stored. The storage should be well ventiladed and dry.
@@corvoattano4777 Many reports now of NK shells explosing inside the barrels of Russian guns.
Nah, people use routinely ammo that is 50+ years old. Some used WWI ammo. It is all good. Chemicals used are very stable. I would be more worried about accuracy which due to primitive production may not be as good - but not a huge difference here either.
They work in South Korean factories in exchange for goods and money aswell.
Suppose you forgot about that...
They also have an unofficial construction Companys in middle east aswell as South East Asia.
I would guess that the basic shell from North Korea can have its detonator replaced. As well as its primer too if applicable. NK weapons were used by Hamas during the Oct 7 attack on Israel, so they can be effective.
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the deal Korea made with Russia is kind of a win-win. Russians would get millions of shells in exchange for the trade deals, and Koreans would get rid of old stock for modern arms.
Not to mention they get to play middle man for Chinese equipment sales. Going to and through NK is a pretty good move on the Kremlins part. Might even get to see N Koreans get to a healthy weight out of the deal. All the food flowing into NK.
@@norm3380 The logistics, circumstances, and distances involved almost certainly mean no significant food aid is flowing from Russia into NK. It's a huge distance from Russia's breadbaskets to NK and also Russia's at war. They need that food themselves to feed their troops considering a fair number of their farmers were conscripted. As reported previously, they most likely traded satellite and ballistic missile tech or similar for the NK munitions.
@@korayven9255 Russia has a train line that runs all the way to the NK and Chinese border. It's already a major trade artery for these things as is.
@@norm3380 No China isn't going to help Russia with weapons. the question is what could China possible gain by suppling weapons? Only a desperate bear is a good bear.
@commie5211 Define weapons and define help. Lol. China is supplying Russia with all kinds of things, drones, generators, trucks, earth moving equipment, processed food rations, intelligence, supplying Hamas with just enough equipment to get them to act a fool to distract Americans. Etc etc.
What would China gain? Well Money for one, A better ally for second, a stable Russia instead of a Balkinised multi ethnic shitshow with nukes involved. Not sure there is a real downside for China helping Russia. The only thing China isn't entirely sure of is how we would react if they were selling weapons and if it mattered what we thought.
They're the new black market armory and this gives them a lot of soft power.
DPRK is a funny name for North Korea...
That's like selling your potato chips as "Healthy Flavorful Vegetable Slices".
Do you really expect to fool anybody with that?
That's its official name, so ehat about it that offends you?
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It is funny because the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea" is not democratic, is not a republic and it is not run by the people.
3/4th of the name are just empty words that sound nice.
You realise democracy just means elected by the people? The workers party was elected by the people which is why they call themselves democratic.
@@Betterhoseyeah.. like McDonald's isn't healthy or the US democrats don't always act according to their name .
@@Boz196
North Korea is more akin to an absolute monarchy than a democracy. The Kim family has been ruling the country uninterruptedly for 3 generations. And the next leader will be determined by blood line as well.
Kim Il Sung was never voted into his position by the people of Korea. He was installed by Stalin as the ruler of Soviet-occupied Korea.
And by the way:
You're wrong about the meaning of the word democracy. It comes from the greek words demos = people and kratos = rule. It doesn't mean "elected by the people" it means "ruled by its people" as opposed to a king who does whatever the fu** he wants.
Why do you even defend North Korea's claim of being a democracy? Are you a Tankie?
8:04 seriously 😅
Acording to an interview with Alejandro Cao de Benós a North Korean official, he said that if a war would break out between the US and the DPRK that everyone knows how to shoot a gun and defend as early as high school. He claimed that the DPRK had enough weapons to arm everyone. If they wanted to North Korea could mobilize 20 million troops.
Lol, Alejandro cao de benos is a North Korea shill, a modern army dosent care people carry or not guns, the technology and elite militias are 99 pero cent of war, You canot stop a low Quality drone with a gun.
90% of them being essentially malnourished cannon fodder
NK soliders get to fire 3 rounds a year for training.
Propaganda. They could probably mobilise another two million on top of regular forces, that's it.
DoD has to invent another enemy, no that Russia has shown itself to be a paper tiger.
Finally back to the old days. 😅 Analysis content, not satellite images inventory videos.
Why are satellite image inventory videos bad?
Hell, probably more reliable as a source of information than analysis.
@@jurajsintaj6644 nothing is wrong with it, but he's content lately is everything based into it. It's getting pretty boring. I think he got obsessed buying satellite images. I missed the old content where he make analysis on equipment like patriot, s-400, tanks etc.
How can such a poor country provide so much militarily? Duh by basically treating the citizens like garbage. Lots of money to spend when you don’t care about Citizens.
Same with the USA
Knowledge!
What is it with eastern block countries and their ridiculous uniforms?
Whats up with west and their wоmеn generals, and trаny mеntаlly ill generals/admirals? 😂😂😂 A сlоwn show of the world
@@hhkk6155 at least half of them are not in the grave lmao
@@wingedvictory8694 do you think NK generals are in grave? Or Russian generals? Stop believing propaganda
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So as to simplify ' these people are SPARTANS' ...
Yes, the numbers look impressive for a nation that has not faced incoming fire for 70+ years. Static, shooting gallery training is worthless. Large stockpiles of ammunition that is aging in these tunnel fortresses for decades is not fine wine, it doesn't improve with age. As for their generals... a chest of 'perfect attendance' and 'good old boy' medals is not the same as battlefield experience. Bottom line, parade ground soldiers are just that, poor actors with pretty uniforms.
Funny how the US couldn't take them though...
Jimi Hendrix: Hey NoKor..
N.Korea: What Jimi?
Jimi Hendrix: Are you experienced?
(Plays guitar🎸: "🎼🎶🎵Wahhhhww-kuhk-wahrahh-kwahh-kuhh🎶🎵")
If I were Kim visiting Moscovia, I would decline the tea and stay away from any windows. (It's not polite to make Vlad feel like he's your biatch!) Of course neither of them are very good at intimidating their enimies.
8:27 Launching a missile from Kims private golf course .
4:50 America has munitions that are designed to penetrate places like this, I’m sure they’ve given South Korea These. Mission is well not to mention South Korea knows North Korean plans of defence as well so I bet they prepared and drilled for the situation’s.
good one
They would definitely get a lot more cannon fotter tanks.
3:48 And there you have the reason why they are able to deliver millions of artillery shells to Russia.
Pretty sure someone has made the comparison before, but couldn’t N Korea be the modern pop culture equivalent of Sparta? A heavily monitored state of complete subservience, basically helot slave labor if you get on their bad side, dictatorial rule, and a very long mandatory military service with the military running the state.
It would be horrific but also interesting if by using nukes as deterrence, they could send out hundreds of thousands of mercenaries to conflict zones nearing Russia and the Middle East. Basically like how they send out laborers, but mercenaries instead, and to see how much revenue it’d generate for N Korea since mercenary work probably pays a lot more than laborers. Could be a multimillion or even billion dollar industry in that case for N Korea.
Interesting comparison, but N.K. has a smaller population than every neighbor by at least half. I don't think KJU would willingly deprive his manpower near the DMZ just to help an ally or risk his soldiers getting any exposure to foreign culture. NK also has no long range logistics capability to to support an expeditionary force.
There is an interesting sci fi novel idea. 2500 years into the future, NK could be viewed as the Sparta and the US is Persia.
Except their army are just slaves...
sparta was not a dictatorship thou. It had a dual monarchy, and a lawgiving body with two chambers. It had indeed very effective checks and balances, to prevent a dictatorship.
@J-IFWBR Well I suppose that would really depend on segment of the population of Laconia you would ask. The governing population in North Korea does have a balancing act between the Kim family, Military, Bureaucracy and Politburo. It really comes down to who writes the history book. Lol.
They're about as much help as a minutemart !
Answer: It's called slave labor
Shungun means not military first, but independent and not depend on others via military, economy, etc.
Funny watching the North Korean military training videos and those tactical rolls a few of the troops did that serve no purpose.
It reminded me of the VDV videos and the useless things they do.
All armies still do them if not just for physical training. I know in my western country we are taught that It is actually beneficial when falling after a run depending on the circumstance.
Western training incorporates pronouns, gender swapping, being obese, studying LGTV 😂😂😂😂
@@supa3ek Martial arts training always starts with that. Classic Judo Ukemi, etc. It's important to know how to get down, fall down as safely as possible and how to get up, and how to set up your gear in a way it gets in the way of movement as little as possible.
Then again, there have also been backflip tomahawk throwing and other silly things like that...
People have been meat riding in the war ever since it started and it goes to show how much misinformation and propaganda both sides show it’s hilarious
@6:10 Something seems off. Looking at how these tubes often jerk around more than sway, suggest there's quite little inertia (=> little mass). I suspect these to be empty. If the ones at the outer propaganda shutterbug lines are empty, I can't imagine the rest of the ~300 tubes are any better.
It could be that they're just not loaded for the parade, but they have the looks of a sealed unit.
Any day Covert Cabal uploads a video is a good day!
Can supply large amounts of small arms
This could be an opportunity for the KPA to get actual real combat experience.
Proxy wars are the best way to get experience and not affect DPRK directly.
Case in point: Iran should ask Putin to let an Iranian Army division carry out missions for Russia and use a mix of Iranian and Russian weapons. The Iranian general in charge of his forces in Ukraine would meet with a Russian general specifically tasked with assigning missions to Iranian forces. The Iranian general and his field commanders take it from there.
No reason why Kim shouldn't find this to be a great experience for his forces. Maybe put them on point and have them clear the path for Russian forces to approach and take Kiev.
@@BlackPill-pu4vi why do you want the fascists to win?
@@jurgnobs1308 Did he say he wants the fascists to win?
@@jurgnobs1308THERE WASNT EVEN ANY POLITICS ITS JUST MILITARY STRATEGY WHY ARE YOU SUCH AN INGROWN NAIL
@@uioplkhj yes.
I bet those Korean tunnels are well lived in by now with everything in storage covered in dust
This is not a Russian doctrine but more of Iranian doctrine based more on terror and intimidation then real power. They rely on fixed artillery positions which do protect the pieces but don't protect the logistics to supply them. Also those don't have any flexibility. I.e. if opposing forces appear outside their limited field of fire they can't be fired upon.
A little demonstration of the weakness of fixed positions with limited field of fire is what happened to Hamas. Hamas still has a vast arsenal of rockets but it can't use them on IDF forces in the strip as the direction can't be changed. It's reaching absurd situation that Hamas can bombard cities but can't do anything against IDF field HQs. The same will happen to NK, they can bombard Seoul but if the US uses amphibious capability they will not able to use their artillery to defend the capital.
Always click when I see a new video. Thanks
NK military is 90+% defense based, and it's done on purpose. NK not only stockpiles shell - they produce them, so RU may contract their production capacity.
This is _heavily_ counterbalanced by North Korea's *EXTREME* distance from where the shells need to go. There is literally _an entire Russia_ between it and its destination. They unironically would have been better off being further away because at that point shipping would have been easier and more convenient. Relying on NK stockpiles only means further strain on Russia's already overtaxed railway network.
Cope, vatnik.
@@wind2536 cope 🧢 harder 😂
@@korayven9255 you are not correct, train carts need to travel back anyway. So RU supplies NK with smth l, and on the way back - shells. Also, they have ports.
@@hhkk6155It requires them shipping it all the way from DPRK to a Russian port. (Vladivostok, polar ports, St. Petersburg are inaccessible this time of year). Black Sea is dangerous, and I don’t know if they’re allowed to go there. I think Murmansk is still accessible though.
NK couldn't even take on the Girl Scouts.
I have to say they are very smart to adapt their forces around what they have and not copy!
Oh no!! Hanz brixx!!
The ROK would roll these fools up in short order , If the DPRK moved south their OR rate would be about 30% by the time they reached the border
Craziest cope 🧢🧢🧢 even crazier than UA defining RU 😂 ROK is military incapable - bunch of makeup wearing s0y consumers there 😅
1 company of tanks: 10-13 tanks
1 battalion of tanks: 31 tanks
Say you're not doing well without using those words:
Russia is getting artillery shells from North Korea
North Korea has sent more shells to Russia in a few months than the entire EU... Also NK is actually pretty dangerous militarily hence South Korea being heavily militarized by Western standards and a large US contingent which will be surged in conflict as they don't consider North Korea easy to beat.
Say you are not doing well without using those words:
Both USA and EU combined can’t make 1 million shells per year
North Korea can
Shells are shells
clown award
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Is that ICBM on a golf course
Interesting, thanks. Considering they're sitting on what could be the world's largest shell stockpile, I guess they can spare a million for the fascist down the road. I'll bet Putin paid dearly for them tho. Kim didn't get that fat by sharing.
I hear he has a taste for caviar.
Pssst...diabetes
mechanized warfare plays the most important part in modern conflicts, even the poorest african warlord skirmishes have a good amount of hiluxes speeding around. DPRK, on the other hand while maintaining such a huge army, has so little oil, their pilots struggles to keep up with sufficient flight hours.
While the European countries failed to supply 1 million artillery shells to Ukraine, most heavily Sanctioned North Korea has been able to supply the same to Russia. How ironic is that.
Because Europe focused on the economy and improving lives. That is why.
@@orionide4032lives of the rich that is. They also seemed to focus very heavily on preventing a peace deal for Ukraine
@@orionide4032 then the Europe should not have committed themselves towards this cause.
@@tempejklThe "peace deal" was a farce that absolutely no one would accept, nothing more than a falsehood for a talking point that idiots like yourself could waste people's time with.
1:26 "They do not, technically have separate military services"
Proceeds to show 5 services + other less major services. The "Army" in this sense is equivalent to "Armed Forces", just like China have the PLA - The People's Liberation *ARMY*, -Ground Force, -Navy, -Air Force, -Navy Marine Corps (PLAGF, PLAAF, PLANMC) exactly the same. Are you seriously going to suggest they don't have different services? A minute and a half in and already off to a shaky start.
Military autism hitting like a mf
He means "branches" as in chain of command. It is different in the sense where the US has its different branches technically separate with their own chain of command, and own sort of independence of other service branches, whereas in the case of NK, all branches are presumably under the same chain of command, and do not really operate independently of of one another.
The fact DPRK 🇰🇵 is giving military aid to Russia 🇷🇺 speaks volumes of the current state of the Russian military situation.
Bro has never heard of „allies“ before
Well, north Korea has one of the biggest artillery munition stockpiles in the world, and artillery shells get expended pretty fast.
Even the US would be asking for help from south Korea if it were in Russia's situation
Russia is only purchasing artillery shells from NK, due to heavy usage in Ukraine. Russia is giving them body armor, missiles etc in return.
@@maximilianodelrioand all of NATO
@@maximilianodelrio exactly, its crazy that people genuinely think that Russia (the largest military on the planet) is actually on its last legs because less than 1/3rd its active duty are stationed in the donbas and even less than them are actually fighting
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Red army doctrine basicly is like if you have 10 people you just need to take good care 1 of them and other 9 is cannon fodder
No. Red Army doctrine is based on swift attack and mechanised weapons. Maybe in WW2 when things were desperate you are right, but no one was taken care of (Stalin and Zhukov stayed in Moscow when Germans were still close in order to protect the city)
@@tempejkl well they still do this ,, not openly ,,, you can see in Ukraine,, imagine if you have 1 Millions people and and 10% of them is competent that will be a hundred thousand people
@@megadwipayana5544 That’s not the red army though, that’s the Russian army. Things have changed since Soviet times, even though a lot of Soviet equipment is still used.
@@tempejkl they are same people mate the flag change but the doctrine not see how ez they used their comrade as a Cannon fodder ???? That exactly what the red army do also mass produce simple and cheap equipment for infantry that prove they still use that doctrine
Artillery shells are artillery shells
the accuracy of your information is suspect or doubtful because its all American talking points based on what source inside the north korean military. because only they can know, everyone else is guessing or lying.
If you have a reliable source of info that's working in the DPRK ISF or army I'm sure there's plenty of people out there who would love you to share that.
Many Russian soldiers have complained that NK shells don't always fire or explode on target.
Sooooooo....
The russian air force has 5000 aircraft and they are not using them
BullHit number from a bullshiting troll.
Besides, russia used its airforce from day one.
Yup 👍 they use like 2-3% of it
@@hhkk6155 obviosly another one who doesnt understand anything. Noce
By 2021, rus had, at most, 1300 combat aircraft, plus 500 attack Helicopters.
4.1k aircraft in various and likely poor condition, and most haven't been used because Russia can't do jack shit to take out Ukraine's air defenses. That means that any attempt to fly over the front line to strike targets would result in a Russian aircraft having a pretty hard landing.
Actually the reference that DPRK would attack and if successful but if not, rely on the West to hold back in the face of massive casualties (Even if that referred to their own). In the Gulf war, a commentator on the BBC was hysterical about Iraqi casualties before destroyed on road back to Iraq, ceasefire now etc. Of course Bush did ceasefire and the Iraqi army escaped, no doubt the Kurds and Shia rebels who had risen against Saddam were overjoyed at this blatant betrayal and the subsequent massacres that resulted. In fact Hamas have done the same, launch the atrocity of 7 October and get the Marxists and Islamists in the West to call for a ceasefire.
its hilarious to see the west essentially realize "maybe our enemies are not the cartoonishly incompetent villains we make them out to be and there is a lot more nuance to the situation than is usually let on
Like Russia?
Pride cometh before the fall, and there lot of Pride in the West. Hell, most people don't realize how militarized and obscenely disproportionate is SOUTH KOREAN artillery. In terms of shells they outproduce USA & EU put together.
Tbf they kinda are the only real threat to the west is china russia and north korea are pretty much an inconvenience
I guess you never heard of the Maginot line? Fixed fortress type installations have proved useless in modern warfare. Those Koreans will be entombed under their mountains. Yes they are incompetent villains without a doubt, but still very dangerous. That's the nuance. Or was it something else?
@@piotrd.4850 Pride in the west? You are looking for issues.
NK can give Russia a short term boost, but doubt that NK is able to produce enough weapons to keep up a steady export stream for very long.
No matter what NK is about to supply Russia with,numbers is what matters. As Stalin said,quantity always turns into quality. Both Russians and Koreans understand that
I love simplifying warfare to simple quotes made by civilian leaders who famously failed at leading armies ( the USSR only managed to start gaining success after massive lend lease from the west, and when stalin stopped trying to micromanage everything military wise )
Numbers matter just as much as quality. 1 Million soldiers don't matter if you can't feed them. 1 thousand tanks don't matter if you can't fuel them, 1 million shells don't matter if you don't have replacement barrels for your artillery.
Its honestly kinda funny that russia, which seemed to have "endless" stocks of soviet weapons and ammo, has been reduced to importing weapons from north korea.
During the Gulf War the Coalition Army showed the quantity of Iraqi tanks did not mean much.
Some 25 years ago I was in NK. Arriving at Pyung Yang airport you see many airplanes - all unusable, used for parts.
Would that have changed now due to Chinese aircraft production or no?
If western countries continue to sit on their hands then sure. Otherwise no chance. Artillery is a decisive class of weapon only in environments where means to counter it are limited or absent. The western way of war deals with artillery with airpower and ground launched missiles, among other things. If we provided sufficient such means to neuter it, artillery would lose its prominence in this conflict and thus so would the contributions DPRK might make. And even if western countries continue failing to locate their balls, it must be said that DPRK does not have large amount of shells in the caliber used types by most Russian tube artillery, that being 152 mm.
Exactly - this is why it is certain Ukraine will loose the war - they are out gunned 5:1 in artillery alone not to mention air power and long range missiles or drones. And they will not be given by the west 100s of aircraft or similar assets to counter Russia to even make it 3:1 in favor of Russia. To make it 1:1 would be near impossible - especially now that over 40% of Americans say US is doing to much in Ukraine.
@@tomk3732no
@@tomk3732 Ukraine began the war outgunned about 10:1 in tubes and 5:1 shells fired. Despite that, Russia has lost about half the territory it captured in its early surprise blitz. So the disparity in artillery did not provide Russia a decisive advantage. Moreover, as with most platforms, it has narrowed. Shells fired for example are down to maybe 2:1 and parity during Ukrainian offensives. There's several reasons for this, e.g. poor Russian doctrine, training and morale, insufficient manpower, the destruction of ammo dumps with HIMARS, etc.
Not sure what poll you have in mind. Most I've seen are c. 60% support, 30% don't support, 10% don't know. When info about Russian losses is provided alongside the question it rises to 65% support. If your party wins 60 to 30 that would be called a landslide victory.
@@williamhenry8914 Of course lol. Artillery is a decisive weapon in war. That is why Ukraine has far greater losses than Russia. Imagine, Ukraine instead of defending itself, it attacks Russia. Ukrainians attack fortified Russian positions through kilometers of minefields and are bombarded with artillery. They attack the best prepared positions. It's no wonder they couldn't break through the first line of defense. When Ukraine exhausts its resources, Russia will occupy as much as it wants. No one believes in the nonsense you state.
@@williamhenry8914 Most of the territory Russia lost it did not control as it invaded with an army smaller then the defender and of tiny size for territory it supposedly occupied. The major factor here was heavy use of armor which gave tiny Russian army mobility and fire power advantage.
The artillery advantage did not narrow - Ukraine has far fewer systems now than at the start of the war and fires less now - by wide margin - than in the first month of the war. Russian gamble to encircle Kiev was due to 1:1 artillery parity - i.e. Russia did not have advantage.
I use gallup poll. Well know. "41% of Americans say U.S. is doing too much to support Ukraine" "61% of Americans say the financial aid Ukraine receives from Washington should have limits" - so yes, by a landslide American public is saying that help should be limited and rather significant minority says its too much.
Also gallup shows the trend is increasing - so by spring we may have more than 41% saying too much.
Russian losses are UA losses divided by 3 or so, at least.
What do the great leaders flunkies write in the little note books?
Ukraine seem to have more and more problems getting new soldiers to the frontline. Sadly it seems like Ukraine will simply have to lose some of its territory officially. Or else they will simply run out of battle capable men who are ready to die. Men who were taken off the streets by force but don’t want to fight are not greatest soldiers.
Go away Moscal.
@@moritamikamikara3879What he said is easily verifiable. Reporting a fact doesn't make you a Russian stooge, it just means you're not high on copium. lol Ukrainians themselves are starting to say the same thing.
Ah yes, the latest Russian talking point. Ukraine might as well give up now because they obviously have no chance.
In case you haven't been paying attention, Russia's manpower situation is not much better. Sure, the Russian population is more than 3x that of Ukraine, but Putin is well aware of the fact that he cannot fully mobilize it. As long as it is Siberians and Muslims from the Stans dying Muscovites won't raise too much of a stink. Start sending more of those white kids from Moscow and St. Petersburg to be ground up at the front and then we'll see what happens. It is obvious that Putin understands this all too well. If he thought otherwise, Russia would have fully mobilized long ago.
How's the weather in St. Petersburg?
Cope harder russkie. You don't want to be sent to a Storm Z unit do you?
@@cruise_missile8387 "Easily verifiable" yeah through pro-Russian telegram videos showing always the same "Ukrainian" recruiter who walks like he has a stick up his behind. And always wearing a balaclava too.