Just to be extra anti-communist they literally declared it the “national day of prayer”. :agony:

I feel they’ve been told that 2030 is go time for a war with China (and already waay too late to be doing it but the outside year that we can do it) and we have to be ready and I think there’s clearly a group of people who think it’s okay to inflict a ton of pain now to save our economy from imploding when we do go to war. To suffer a relatively moderate blow now in order to not be decapitated by the blow that comes with war with China in 5 years. We should also not underestimate the willingness of the bourgeoisie to discipline the proles (end of cheap treats, shortages) and to marshal and discipline themselves to fight this war by taking some losses as a kind of investment in an attempt to gain the upper hand, seize as much of the world as possible for plundering and exploitation by the US bloc and they hope come up with something that will enable them to destroy China.

I feel there may have been planners in the US who wanted to not only field test new technology but create a quagmire in Ukraine specifically to keep Russia occupied through the coming US war with China so it wouldn’t want to render or wouldn’t be able to render full military aid because of its own distractions. That could yet be the case, they could set off something else in Georgia or one of the 'stan countries and distract Russia again with problems and there is a chance they intend to throw Europe at Russia by that point, to get them to build up so by 2030 they can throw themselves against Russia as a distraction and drain.

Trump’s golden shield program for example which is just more Star Wars/SDI has I think real backing. The US is not confident enough in being able to defeat the PLA in conventional combat BUT (and here comes the magical thinking much in the same vein of capitalist magical thinking on climate change that some revolutionary technology will come along to solve it) if they can actually build a missile defense system capable of reliably intercepting 95% of incoming ICBMs for example then they can solve their problems, they turn the shield on, nuke China, deflect the incoming blows and invade it and cut what remains of her people and resources up into pieces to be plundered. What stops me from dismissing this as just raving fantasy is technology has progressed significantly (we’re in the hypersonic age and from Russia’s systems to some US tests there has been some success and evidence that kinetic interception and kill is possible if expensive) and the level of desperation the US feels could compel them to stumble into some sort of technological advance that they think will enable this. Because we must recall work or fail we’re fucked if they BELIEVE they have such a system and launch on China, if the Chinese counter-attack gets through that’s good but the Chinese are still dead and it’s just the US that joins them in the grave of their own digging.

Of course it could also be Trump’s golden shield is merely a give-away to the war industry or it could be part of that whole small yard high fence defensive posture the US wants to adopt for a multi-polar world. So many ways the wind could blow.

So what’s interesting here is the owner confirms the US capitalist class/corporations told him decoupling was happening and they did that years ago under Biden and attempted to pressure him to move production. It’s not a case of empire managers pushing reluctant bourgeoisie who slow-walk the process to make chumps of them. They’re trying genuinely to do what they can while delaying to keep profits but the intent is there and telling Chinese factory owners to do this is beyond any part of a mere show. Easier said than done obviously but short of a collapse I do see the US continuing to push on this slowly. Trump’s mistake may just be trying to get it done quickly.

I see one Italian Blu-ray rip for that with Italian PGS subtitles. It’s on a pt. It would be possible to ocr the Italian subs then use a translation service to get an imperfect but perhaps serviceable result. I know subtitle edit can do ocr and translate via google for free with lesser results. Otherwise you could ocr, chop into smaller files and feed them to deepl which may give better results.

Why not? Russia never denied the accusations only repeated that the matter of troops from partner nations like the DPRK was an internal matter. After all Ukraine had troops from US, UK, France, Poland, Germany, all kinds of western paid mercenaries, as well as special forces soldiers in or out of uniform but acting under orders operating equipment, etc operating there and that was considered fair by the west and not a sign of them engaging in a direct war against Russia so this is more than fair on the part of Russia and the DPRK.

We know for a fact DPRK troops were in Russia and training with Russians and have for many months. We know Russia and the DPRK signed a mutual defense treaty and the DPRK decided to honor it in the present conflict (a wise move in that it would leave Russia in a tougher spot after the DPRK helped them if Russia were to balk if the US attacked the DPRK in future).

Many of us thought it likely they were likely at least deployed in rear defensive lines to 1) Get them close to the action and get experience and knowledge and 2) free up Russian troops to engage in other operations. The contention from the Ukrainian Nazi propagandists was however that you know some massive number of them were engaged in offensive combat operations and in Ukraine because obviously 90% of the Russian population had been killed by the Ghost of Kiev or whatever.

It’s interesting to get information that they did get involved in the front. Most likely information like how many were deployed isn’t something Russia or the DPRK are eager to reveal, it might be revealed in vague terms in the coming years like someone letting slip it was more than or less than x. However how many casualties is likely to never be revealed though I’d guess given their area of operation in Russia with heavy support they probably didn’t take that many.

Hopefully this knowledge saves lives by further deterring the west from attacking the DPRK, I believe they’re growing domestic drone production as a result of this conflict because of the clear role those will play in future.

So glad to hear that comrade! I wish you a speedy recovery. Don’t push yourself, give your body attention, take it easy and I’m sure soon this will be behind you.