UKRAINE - WELL, THAT DIDN'T TAKE LONG

Of interest,
North Korea has offered 100,000 volunteer troops to fight the "fascists" in Ukraine. They have also offered an unspecified number of construction workers to rebuild infrastructure in the Donbas region.
With approximately 1.8 million foot soldiers, 949 fighter jets, 6,000 tanks and 83 submarines, communist North Korea has one of the world’s largest armies in terms of manpower.

CBS News has a report that Ukrainian troops are only getting 30% of the aid being sent from the West. The rest? Funneled to Swiss bank accounts?

North Korean mercenaries? Putin should welcome them. Could even trade natural gas, oil, and Ukrainian grain for Korean armor and troops.

Rick,

That exchange is what Kim proposed.

www.cnn.com/2022/08/06/europe/zaporizhzh...lant-intl/index.html

)Ukrainian officials and international experts have been warning for months of the risk that fighting poses to a sprawling nuclear power plant on the banks of Dnipro River in southern Ukraine. Earlier this week, the global nuclear watchdog said the situation was becoming increasingly perilous.
Then, on Friday, explosions rang out at Zaporizhzhia nuclear power complex, the biggest of its kind in Europe, reigniting fears of a potential disaster.

And U (collectively) r commenting on economics?????

"And U (collectively) r commenting on economics?????"

Is this a reply to the fact that Kim has offered troops or did you intend this comment for another topic?

It's not very interesting to the emotional class when we talk about the slow and steady destruction of economies, which ultimately leads to mass poverty, misery, and death. Do some research sometime on the number of lives ruined by nuclear plants vs the lives ruined by poverty. We are on the verge of allowing the dream of green energy to kill billions of people... it won't be because of nuclear power plants, it will be because of people who never learned math and have no common sense.

MY, how soon we dismiss THREE MILE ISLAND, CHERNOBYL AND FUKISHIMA....the VERY last thing we need is ANOTHER nuclear accident...only this time,it will not be an accident...it will be an ATTACK(question will be.WHERE will the red button be pushed.)

www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-say...ar-plant-2022-08-07/

Europe's largest nuclear power plant, the Zaporizhzhia, and called for new international sanctions on Moscow for "nuclear terror".

Ukraine's state nuclear power firm said Russian forces damaged three radiation sensors at the facility in renewed shelling on Saturday night, wounding a worker with shrapnel.

"Russian nuclear terror requires a stronger response from the international community - sanctions on the Russian nuclear industry and nuclear fuel," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy wrote on Twitter.

If I was a soldier fighting around a nuclear plant, I would desert! Suicidal to attack around there. The Russians earlier in the war exposed their troops to Chernobyl radiation by having them dig trenches on the site.

"U.S. taxpayers are now responsible for financially supporting the lifestyle of Ukrainian citizens directly. Earlier today the Biden administration sent $4.5 billion to the Ukraine government to pay for their “salaries, pensions, welfare and healthcare costs“; with an additional $1 billion in weapons. Total package $5.5 billion for Ukraine."

www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/exclusive-u...et-needs/ar-AA10rdn9

The total aid to Ukraine is north of $60 billion from the U.S.
CBS news reported that only 30% of weapons get to the soldiers on the line.
The other NATO countries have contributed a pittance.

When and how will this end?

The proxy war continues. New reports say a Ukrainian attack on a Russian Crimean Air Force base took out 37 combat planes and six helicopters. Wow! Say it might be the worst day in Russian Air Force history.