As opposed to scatterings of individuals. Will we see North Koreans in uniform or whatever shithole pic related is sending actual battalions. Are there any dictatorships of Russia's with advisors in uniform in Ukraine with Russia (in combat, I don't mean Indian 'journalists')
pro-Russian "journalists" should be put in camps wherever they are worldwide.
>pro-Russian "journalists" should be put in camps wherever they are worldwide.
Of course, they are poison but Russia made a lot of dictatorships and shitholes by installing some 'strongman' and loves near failed gangster states like Venezuela and South Africa
and North Korea, so are there actually unfomed South African soldiers in as observers with the Russians, or North Koreans? Are there Indian observers in with the Russians since they buy Russian tanks and their media is a Russia asset and the Indian dictator props up Russia by buying its oil?
>Are there Indian observers in with the Russians
I doubt, if Indian active military personnel die in Ukraine while being on Russian side it would be huge problem for India
>I doubt, if Indian active military personnel die in Ukraine while being on Russian side it would be huge problem for India
Why India is pretty openly supporting Russia economically and the majority of pro Russian propaganda outlets on sites like YouTube originate in India. its even a running joke here that organised Russian propaganda is outsourced to third world and Indian spammers. Indians also generally seem brainwashed to hate Europeans etc etc (if you ever listen to them). A lot of them seem to be under the impression they are colonising Europe even though they seem a bit stupid and lost in reality and prone to being frauds and scammers. My point is both the government and people of India, South Africa, Venezuela etc are bitterly anti European and Anti American just like shit pits like Iran and India has even licenced small arms manufacture from Russia during teh Ukraine war while buying Russia oil. It amazes me that ANY visas for Indians are issued to Europe or the USA but they are. Anyhow I would not be surprised at all if there are Indians in uniform observing T90 operations etc or in Russian small arms factories for example. Certainly North Koreans and Iranians. Have any Iranians been captured or confirmed pictured in uniform for example on the ground in Ukraine? Will this proceed to some token combat units as the Russian military degrades further?
There's actually huge leap between economical support India provides(and India buying Russian oil at discount was hugely beneficial for West because it kept oil cheap and Russian revenue lower than they'd have otherwise) and any military support. India hates both West and China while balancing between two sides, risking Western sanctions for anything marginal like observing Russian troops is not worth it, India also started to buy more Western weaponry replacing Russian due to quality issues
>India also started to buy more Western weaponry replacing Russian due to quality issues
And that should not happen either. Their visa holders in the USA and EU should be deported to, its no goo letting people from places like that where they cheer for people like Putin who want the west destroyed into your nations. The same for China and the other BRICS. They are simply not needed either. Neither are arms exports to India much economic benefit. Better to cultivate places like Argentina or Georgia that are more than anti-western sewers.
We need to arm India so India and China destroy each other
A worthy ambition perhaps but still no need to make vital western assets like Google, Amazon and Microsoft staffed and controlled by both Indians and Chinese at decision making levels? Surely rather than sending India conventional weapons or enabling their anti-western culture the focus should be on instigating a nuclear exchange between them?
And Pakistan of course. Ideally a three way exchange of nukes between them, it might be nice if it included Iran as well as a forth.
>Georgia
Georgia is one of the places that funnels sanctioned western tech into Russia.
>A lot of them seem to be under the impression they are colonising Europe even though they seem a bit stupid and lost in reality and prone to being frauds and scammers
They pretty much are, and westerners have no right to giggle about native americans selling manhattan for a few beads now that they've sold canada for a few shonky javascript commits
Arresting journalists is a very Russian sentiment
Arresting?
>Arresting journalists is a very Russian sentiment
In this case I think you can say that the outright pro kremlin people, like armchair warlord meet all the criteria for treason and nearly all western nations have treason and espionage penalties. Nothing new there.
>armchair warlord meet all the criteria for treason
How? Are you moronic?
because he's a co-ordinated and integrated part of Russian propaganda and is an agent for a state targeting the USA with nuclear weapons.
>random schizo contrarian with daddy issues that hates current thing is actually a FSB glowBlack person
I would believe this if we were talking about, say, Germany or the USA, not fricking special needs operation Russia.
So you are a moron.
Don't they already? One POW got a banan.
>Don't they already? One POW got a banan.
OP here I mean in their national uniform as members of their nations military.
No, no country is going to send in actual military personnel. First because Africa is already busy with wars in their own turf and also because getting directly involved like that would mean a lot of legal troubles with the UN
They CAN however hire unsuspecting nigs as mercs and use them as cannon fodder, african governments don't give a shit about their citizens so its not like this would lead to much outcry
There most be Iranian troops there given the drone supply though and the same for North Korean ballistic missiles. I can see the Chinese staying away from Putin mess though but those two have been front and centre in supporting Putin along with the Indians.
>can see the Chinese staying away from Putin mess though
Maybe on state level, but mercs come from everywhere.
They are not PLA though, just randoms.
That's what I just said!
Yes but I'm curious that no evidence at all of actual uniformed Iranian, North Koreans, Indians, Eritreans, Venezuelan's, Cubans etc etc has surfaced. During the cold war there could barely be a fist fight in a bar without a regiment of cubans in uniform in the toilet sent to help the most communist drunk.
"By 1976, the Cuban military presence in Angola had grown to nearly 36,000 troops"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_intervention_in_Angola
So where are the other pro Russian dictatorships militaries? It usually goes from a handful of observers to a greater number of trainers and then something like 'combat support' units etc. How come there is no Iranian or North Korean regiment rolling around in the mud? There *should* be by all historical precedent and it is not like these places give much of a frick about the lives of their expendables. There must be Iranians in inform on the ground there. How come no pictures yet?
>So where are the other pro Russian dictatorships militaries?
>be el generalisimo of shitopia, glorious military dictatorship
>hate the US, the West, Christian people, democracy, toilets and above all, drinkable tap water.
>hear the call of glorious trad russia for help
>russia cries for help! and shitopia answers!!!
>send in our finest warriors and equipment
>they all get exterminated by bunch of zoomers and a couple DIY Drones
>people back in shitopia are angry that their sons died
>even more angry when they find out that they can see their deaths online
>get coup d'etat'd and throw to the lions (literally)
>next generalisimo calls you a moron and allies with China
https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2022/10/06/russia-stole-upgraded-indian-t-90-tanks-to-use-them-in-ukraine/
NEW DELHI ($1=82.06 Indian Rupees) — Tanks owned by India are used by the Russian army in the war with Ukraine. Indian journalist Girish Linganna claims this in front of Frontier India. He is a Defense & Aerospace analyst and a Director of ADD Engineering Components [India] Pvt Ltd. This company is a subsidiary of ADD Engineering GmbH, Germany with manufacturing units in Russia.
It would be incredible if the Indian army did not have observers in Ukraine.
The Cold War provided a structure. The Cold War also had ideology. The attempt to destroy the U.S. today is not ideological, it's simply a cold-hearted business opportunity masked as a crusade.
We need new ways of thinking to help wake up to what's going on, because people feel something is off.
The world is more chaotic today and it's about income streams with a superstructure of nihilism, stupidity and villainy that will fly a dozen different flags even if it looks contradictory... even better because it deceives, disjoints and disrupts boring, normal folks -- keeps them stressed. Add family dictatorships, aging warlords, arms dealers, oily oligarchs, sociopathic greedy billionaires, creepy middlemen and foreign petrofascist nations to the list of chaos agents. They're all the same. buttholes. They create chaos zones to further their self interest. They hire and fund frickerists to murder and destroy infrastructure while seizing assets and resources. This neo-colonialism hires reckless incompetent mercenaries, throws up distractions from problem solving with a vast number of fire-and-forget projects, creates false dilemmas, trades Bitcoin, monetizes YouTube bullshit, charity, food buckets whatever.
They use cyber ops, propaganda, infiltration, bribery to wreak havoc on public perception and create division. The same military psyop and intel tactics used against terrorists. They use sentiment analysis and predictive behavior to know which angry dimwit buttons to push. These forces are at work all the time at various levels of operational tempos, confident there are no penalties for stealing entire nations or frustrated democracies. Except if they really frick up. And all working towards dismantling structural systems and hoping to profit from it. A divisive nation living in fear is a weaker competitor or enemy.
Right here right now.
Moral of the story is they're buttholes.
lol frick no, dictatorships have no loyalty and are concerned heavily about self preservation. only thing tsar monke will be getting is at most castoff gear at a high price or more prisoners to use for meat waves that the dictatorships would be happy to be rid of anyway
But are any of the known to have even uniformed advisers or observers in with the Russians? Iran surely? Will we see a republican guard unit there? Or a North Korean unit?
I'll never say never, but I think sending troops as actual troops of your own country is a great way of weakening yourself at home, not to mention risking getting sanctioned for direct assisting of the war, so unless Russia has some kind of leverage over you I personally wouldn't do it. Also the logistics of sending full army divisions over would be difficult. Letting individual citizens go to Russia and join the Russian military is about as far as I'd go.
>I'll never say never, but I think sending troops as actual troops of your own country is a great way of weakening yourself at home, not to mention risking getting sanctioned for direct assisting of the war, so unless Russia has some kind of leverage over you I personally wouldn't do it. Also the logistics of sending full army divisions over would be difficult. Letting individual citizens go to Russia and join the Russian military is about as far as I'd go.
That's the thing though the populations of these places are bombarded with pro Russian pro dictator propaganda 24/7, in their respective linguistic and national network cages. The populations of these shitholes would cheer it because le ebic kremlin putin saving world from ebil western neo colonialists etc etc
russia doesnt need help. they have centuries of experience with slowly gobbling up their neighbors.
>russia doesnt need help
That's not true they are begging North Korea for artillery and ammunition and Iran for drones and ammunition, Russia is desperate for help. Why would they be using garbage tier quality North Korean crap otherwise?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/22/uk-sends-un-experts-photographs-north-korean-shipments-russia
the thread isnt about that, it's about foreign armies joining the war on russia's side
With armaments observers and trainers usually come by default.
Russia’s African activities aren’t anything to do with diplomacy or building national alliances. They’re there to partner with local leaders to loot minerals and secure them from rival elites and other groups. Why do you think the oligarchs got so hyped up on getting into the PMC business in Africa? What was the Woody-Prigo fight over?
>Russia’s African activities aren’t anything to do with diplomacy or building national alliances.
Have you ever listened to any of the people from Africa or India and how they view Russia and the USA and Europe. They hate the west and view it as being theirs now because Russia told them that teh BRICS and Russia are the future and that Russia will support them as colonists. I have listened to the exact same spiel from Indian 'professional' students, Nigerian criminals and Algerians etc nearly work for word. They also LIVE on Russian spammed mobile social media crap. See Yallah group, its a proxy for RT/Sputnik tier crap and reposts that material within seconds of it appearing on RT. Indians also genuinely believe that they are 'colonising' the UK and Scotland and Ireland. I was talking with a group of four in an airport and listening to them. They have a bizarre mix of pseudo fascist Hindu nonsense telling them that Google and Microsoft are Hindu owned and Russian propaganda streaming o their mobiles 24/7. Why do you think youtube is so fricked up and full of kremlin bullshit? In several European countries a no cookies youtube search for video news will place 10 Indian channels first.
TID
The Colonial Empire of Ukraine has to be kept under control.
“The Ukraine military was only letting the Ukrainians and Europeans across the border,” Chahat told Al Jazeera as she held a bouquet of red flowers handed to those returning from Ukraine by Indian authorities at the airport.
“But I don’t know why Indians were being stopped and pushed back,” the young student said, alleging many Indians were beaten by the Ukrainian forces as they tried to cross the border.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/3/tears-anger-as-indian-students-return-from-ukraine-delhi-airport
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/will-they-take-action-after-we-die-student-in-ukraine-slams-centre-2801741
The Ministry of External Affairs, or MEA, has said arranging flights are not the main concern as more flights would be made available as long as Indians need to be evacuated, but reaching the western Ukraine border from cities like Kyiv and Kharkiv in the east is the main challenge amid the heavy fighting between Ukrainian and Russian forces.
PM Modi spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday to review the situation in Ukraine and Indian evacuation efforts.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/stranded-indian-students-watched-as-ukrainian-pets-crossed-border-to-safety/
Indian students in Ukraine who spent days stranded at the Polish border have told of “19th-century racism” as they watched Ukrainians’ pets allowed to cross before they were.
“It all comes down to black and white,” said medical student Muhammad, speaking from a hostel in Lviv on Tuesday. “They are Europeans and we are just Indians.”
Muhammad, originally from New Delhi, said he and hundreds of other foreign students had been denied access to the Polish border and forced to return to the city, 40 miles away, a few days earlier.
Based poland.
What does it have to do with Ukraine though?
>What does it have to do with Ukraine though?
Ukraine bad ok sanjeet! Do not be asking the questions!
>Sending your kids to school in an active warzone
safer than india, despite russian presence, less rape too
The Indian government deliberately tied to start a crisis using 18,000 Indian students in Ukraine when the war broke out. The Indian embassy directed them to cross the border into teh EU for which they had no visas to enter and then closed its telephone lines. Then a barrage of pro Russian outlets in India depicted the situation as Ukrainian 'racism' and photographed them receiving flowers in Indian airports when they eventually got back to India. It was a very interesting spectacle laid on by the Indian government in a typically deceptive pro Russian propaganda coup. yes Indians should be deported from Europe, of cours ethey should be. Europe does not have sufficiently full employment to justify non EU citizens being given work or entry visas from hostile states like India that purchase Russian oil and co-operate with Russian arms manufacture. Its a huge security issue for individuals with overwhelming connections to communist China or pro Russian India holding ANY senior positions in companies like Google, Amazon or Microsoft which western states governments utilise for information storage and processing, or controlling platforms like youtube while facilitating anti-western pro Russian propaganda.
The problem with supporting failed states and totalitarian third world shitholes if that they have absolutely nothing to offer you in terms of real material support , because they are too busy trying to hard not to starve or imploded into a civil war, much like Russia itself.
OK found this
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202210211932
"At least 10 Iranians have been killed in attacks carried out by Ukraine against Russian-held positions while Tehran insists it is not providing Moscow with drones or military advisory support.
A Ukrainian official told Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation, Kan on Friday that the deaths occurred in two separate strikes, following recent reports that Iranian trainers were in Crimea to help Russians deploy the killer drones. The source did not provide any further details or the identities of the Iranians."
See?
Iranian Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Friday, calling on its nationals to leave Ukraine and scrap their travel plans, saying, "Given the intensification of military conflicts and insecurity in Ukraine, all Iranian nationals are strongly recommended to refrain from traveling to this country.”
Rejecting reports and evidence of supplying Moscow with drones and missiles as “baseless,” Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said Thursday, “We have defense cooperation with Russia but sending weapons and drones against Ukraine is not our policy."
So where are the best koreans finest action heros? They are there somewhere
https://www.ft.com/content/1d1eb1dd-4fa0-4693-9512-23a219de5d77
"North Korea’s KN-23 missiles that Moscow has now used"
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Yang Uk, a defence expert at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies in Seoul, said North Korea could have reserves of up to 100 KN-23s, most of which it might transfer to Russia for the right price.
“Pyongyang needs cash right now more than it needs war, and it can always build a new stockpile,” Yang said. Kyiv’s allies led by the US condemned North Korea’s arms transfers this week. Russian officials have called the allegations US “disinformation”.
Moscow was also in “actively advancing” talks with Tehran to acquire close-range ballistic missiles, said US national security spokesperson John Kirby.
Iran has the largest ballistic missile programme in the Middle East and could supply Russia “with a few hundred ballistic missiles” just to start, said Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a US think-tank.
With its economy on a war footing Russia now makes more than 100 long-range missiles a month, compared with about 40 at the start of invasion, and about 300 attack drones, according to Ukrainian and western officials. That is not enough to sustain the current pace of attacks, which were only possible after Russia stockpiled missiles for months. But Iranian-supplied drones and North Korean missiles make up some of the shortfall.
“Russia is using whatever it can to wear out Ukraine,” said Gustav Gressel, a former Austrian military officer and now a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations think-tank.
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kek
100 missiles huh? I could have sworn Rocketman had more.
>actual battalions
Hell no, they are fully dependant on the military for internal power. They might send a little here and there but very little in the way of manpower. The only way they might send a significant number of men is if Putin offers them so much money they can leave their shithole and me mega-rich in Russia or Iran.
Here is my new slave obongo, I stole him from the french, he will bring me many banan.
https://defence-blog.com/indian-t-90-tanks-appear-with-cope-cage-defense-on-top/
These tanks with these rather unconventional structures were identified as part of the Western Command of the Indian Army, responsible for the border with Pakistan.
OSINT analysts referred to these attachments as “Cope Cages,” a sarcastic nickname for structures placed around tanks in the hope of providing protection against drones, missiles, or other anti-tank weapons.
The concept of “Cope Cage” armor involves attaching external frameworks, often resembling cages or grids, to the surface of tanks and other armored vehicles. These structures are designed to serve as an additional layer of defense, offering protection against various threats, including anti-tank guided missiles and, notably, drones.
The “Cope Cage” solution, while not conventional or factory-fitted armor, has demonstrated its effectiveness as a quick, improvised, and cost-efficient means of enhancing the protection of military assets. This approach exemplifies the adaptability and resourcefulness of military forces in responding to evolving threats in modern warfare.
Russian military forces have pioneered a unique solution to enhance the protection of their armored vehicles, which has colloquially been referred to as “Cope Cage.” This innovative approach to vehicle protection has now become an integral feature in the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, primarily to counter the threat posed by drones.
https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/war-in-ukraine
https://frontierindia.com/indian-army-t-90s-bhishma-tanks-may-be-fighting-in-ukraine-for-russia/?expand_article=1
Based on the conjecture mentioned above, it can be assumed that India sanctioned the use of the T-90s by the Russian Army. The T-90 Bhishma is owned by India and has been sent to Russia for modernization testing.
The Indian foreign minister, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, did not mention the status of the Indian T-90s in Russia while responding to whether or not there were maintenance concerns with Russian weaponry in India.
On September 28, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar told reporters during the joint news conference with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken that there have been no issues in recent months regarding the servicing and supply of spare parts for spare parts in recent months military equipment acquired in the past from Russia.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) conference in September, the same month that the aforementioned video became public. During the discussion, Mr. Modi reportedly advised Russian President Vladimir Putin that it was not the time for war.