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Not long ago, my conservative estimates that North Korea is sending 5,000 soldiers and officers to fight on the side of the rashists against Ukraine were met with irony by my Facebook friends.
Then various media outlets were talking about 10,000, now even intelligence services are citing the figure of 12,000.

So they could be even 15,000.

How is it possible that not only my Facebook friends — forgivable for them — but also Western experts — unforgivable for them — think and write that North Korea will not send cheap and numerous cannon fodder to the battlefields in Ukraine?

This is possible for at least two reasons.

Ukraine is going through extremely serious and crushing, inhuman and ominous difficulties - especially in the last six months.

We are thinking and worrying about Ukraine,
we hope that Ukraine will survive,
we are concerned about the decline in support from the West,
we are outraged by the growing pressure on President Zelensky - not only from Russia and those who support this Orthodox Caliphate-aggressor; not only from the overwhelming neutral and indifferent majority in the world, including in Europe; but also from the West: For the adoption of the agreement "Territories in exchange for Peace".

No, it's not just oil on which Putin's economy rests quite well, and this allows the Orthodox Rashist Caliphate not only to continue, but also to intensify the War against Ukraine...

Alas, there are no sanctions from the EU on Russian non-ferrous metals (aluminum, nickel, copper, etc.), on liquefied gas, on nuclear fuel.
And this is at least another 30 billion dollars a year for the Russian military budget.
Plus the greatly increased supplies of Russian pipeline gas to the EU.

My very close friend from Kharkov has not responded to my letters for 4 days, and I began to worry a lot.
Today I received this letter from him:

In Kharkov, everything is the same, only even more complicated and difficult.
Our life is like walking on a tightrope - high above the ground you go forward, swing, stagger, every step can be your last, but you go. Not knowing whether you will get there and where you are going at all.
There are more schools with bomb shelters, some children went to school on September 1. But not all, many children have never sat at a desk, since first there was covid, and then almost immediately the War.

From the book I'm reading:
"The Times of London unexpectedly sided with Hitler, recommending that the Sudeten territories be officially returned to Germany. On September 9, during the annual Nuremberg Congress, the British ambassador took a similar position in a private conversation."
[this is before the West's disgrace in Munich]