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okay what is the thing about North Korean missiles? maybe it's my western chauvinism showing but I didn't think they had a significant arms manufacturing industry.
The latest Russian missile offensive yes? The narrative here is simple.
The US wants to escalate and give longer range missiles to Ukraine at the same time there is a struggle against the necessity to divert funding to Israel/ME. So the Ukrainian war hawks still believe their war is the most important and the point here is to create a narrative that if Russia is buying/getting even more help from their allies then we should continue to fund and escalate the supply of missiles for Ukraine.
Why missiles? Because there is literaly nothing else. The wondershit weapons are all done, be it the Abrams or the F-16s that will take months/years. Artillery? Yes Ukraine needs artillery shells but obviously the west can't supply those. So what is left? Patriots? Already given and obviously barely useful. So the only thing that admittedly had some efficacy was these cruise missiles. Ukraine managed to launch a few successful strikes therefore this is the only path.
So TL;DR the US wants an excuse to continue supplying missiles to Ukraine and the narrative of Russian escalating through their allies is the "excuse". The reality here doesn't matter, it is merely a public political excuse to keep escalating against the Russians.
The only missiles left to send Ukraine are the sub-sonic Tomahawks (the US/UK does not have supersonic cruise missiles), and that really is all they have left. They have nothing else beyond this.
There are the German Taurus ones, not sure how good those ones are but they aren’t hypersonic.
You're right about the US specificaly maybe? They want the German Taurus and Germany doesn't want to. This week again another push and the only thing holding it back is the US approval.
You can see it in the NAFOids already, they are using #TaurusMissiles in tweets talking about North Korean missiles used by Russia. They are trying to create an equivalency and a rhetorical justification for more ATACMs and Tauruses
The DPRK has had to put a significant proportion of its manufacturing capacity into military detterence, including missiles, rockets, and artillery.
I think they're talking about how the DPRK sold artillery shells to Russia. The DPRK has a sizable inventory of artillery batteries. The DMZ is one of the more artillery heavy areas in the world as far as I know
No they are now saying Russia is using North Korean ballistic missiles. If Russia is, it’s likely for testing purposes to help DPRK gather intel and not because Russia needs them
North Korea has the 4th biggest army in the world, on par with India China and the US
and a smaller budget than the NYPD