by Jeff Childers
Unpexpectedly! The Hill ran a story yesterday headlined, “North Korea wades into Ukraine.” Wades was a strange choice of verb. I could see wading into North Carolina or Tampa Bay, but Ukraine? Are they using boats? Whatever. I digress.
The story was as silly as the headline. The only helpful takeaway was that North Korea, driven into Putin’s arms by the Proxy War, has been allegedly selling vast numbers of artillery shells to Russia. This is a development that our DEI-fueled generals somehow never saw coming. Bless their hearts, they always thought Russia would run out of artillery before NATO did.
It was a critical mistake verging on military malpractice.
But look! The Proxy War bore more even unexpected fruit this week. On Wednesday, the Associated Press ran an ominous story headlined, “North Korea vows to block border with South Korea and build front-line defense structures.” In short, the Norks have closed the border and are building anti-tank defenses all along the line — defenses that remarkably resemble the Surovikin Line that the Russians built in Ukraine in 2022, demolishing Zelensky’s catastrophic Glorious Spring Offensive.
Finally, on Tuesday, the UK Independent ran a story with the outraged headline, “Kim Jong-un makes outlandish claim in birthday message to Putin.” The “news” was North Korean president Kim Jong-un, the little rocket man, sent President Putin a nice card on his birthday. In the note, Kim referred to Putin as his “closest comrade,” a microaggressive moniker that badly triggered corporate media.
Hilariously, when referring to Putin, the Independent reflexively regurgitated the exhausted phrase “increasingly isolated” to describe the Russian president:
Increasingly isolated? What on Earth was the Independent prattling about? Behold yesterday’s Globe and Mail headline, which succinctly described just how not-isolated Russia is:
Vladimir Putin is increasingly isolated in the same way Taylor Swift is increasingly isolated. Russia is being “increasingly isolated” only in the estrogen-soaked cells of the Pentagon’s brain.
Our generals need to retire.
