Putin's Third Front

June 27, 2024

Putin invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022 and on October 7, 2023 a second front in his “world war” was opened when Russian-trained Hamas terrorists attacked Israel. He has failed to open a third front by convincing China to invade Taiwan but last week he found an alternative. He signed a comprehensive security agreement with North Korea, a gulag with 26 million starving people and a small nuclear arsenal, that poses as a nation-state. The two pledged to protect one another from the “West”, but it was an escalation designed to rattle the region. China looked askance at this incursion, America was concerned, Japan was shaken, and South Korea was enraged and vowed to ship weapons directly to Ukraine in its war against Russia if North Korea is bolstered militarily. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol called out the deal as a provocation: “It’s absurd that two parties with a history of launching wars of invasion — the Korean War and the war in Ukraine — are now vowing mutual military cooperation on the premise of a preemptive attack by the international community that will never happen.”