Putin begging for weapons? Talk about projecting Zelensky's begging onto Putin. Plus this isn't an original thought on your part. You are just saying the same thing as Jens Stoltenberg. "NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Putin's trip showed how he was "dependent" on authoritarian leaders."
The west hypocrisy and double standards have no limits.
Here's an article. It's basically propaganda counter intelligence. To me it shows how the west is fooling itself. Here's the part I'm talking about. "
100,000 North Korean soldiers in Ukraine: possible only in a parallel universe This is, in short, wishful thinking and a sign of Russian desperation in the propaganda and psychological war over Ukraine. The source of the report about the possibility of North Korea sending volunteers to Ukraine was Russian TV. On 5 August Igor Korochenko, a military commentator, stated on Russian Channel One: “There are reports that 100,000 North Korean volunteers are prepared to come and take part in the conflict.” Korochenko cited North Korean experience in “anti-battery warfare” and continued: “If North Korea expresses a desire to meet its international duty to fight against Ukrainian fascism, we should let them.”1 No North Korean source has commented on this topic. But the Ministry of Foreign Relations of the Russian Federation (RF) was forced to refute Korochenko’s claims, given its resonance in the press and social media around the world. In a briefing on August 11, the deputy director of that Ministry’s Information Department, Ivan Nachaev, stated that the announcement about the DPRK’s proposal to send 100,000 volunteers to participate in military operations in Ukraine in support of Russia was “fake from beginning to end.” Nachaev went on to say: “Such negotiations are not being conducted and the dispatch of North Korean volunteers to the DPR (Donetsk People’s Republic) and LPR (Lugansk People’s Republic) is not planned.” Moscow was convinced that the allied forces of Russia, DPR and LPR were “entirely sufficient for the successful completion of the task of the military special operation in Ukraine.”2The fact that the prospect for North Korean volunteers was raised, albeit falsely, reveals a Russian problem with manpower for the war effort in Ukraine, still defined as a “special military operation.” Russia has lost many soldiers in Ukraine; according to some estimates, between 24 February and the end of July 2022, in the range of 75-100,000 Russian troops were killed or wounded in the war.3 The Russian offensive in the Donbas 1 Cited in the New York Post, “Russian state TV: North Korea offering Kremlin 100,000 ‘volunteers’,” 5 Augus 2022,
https://nypost.com/2022/08/05/russian-state-tv-north-korea-offers-kremlin-100000-troops/. 2RBC.Ru, “MID nazval fejkam soobshtenia o dobrobol’tsah iz KNDR na Ukraine” [Ministry of Foreign Affairs called the announcement about DPRK’s volunteers in Ukraine fake],11 August2022.
https://www.rbc.ru/politics/11/08/2022/62f4c21f9a7947b5621265e6. 3On 20 July 2022, CIA Director William Burns told the Aspen Security Forum that around 15,000 Russian soldiers had been killed and three times that number wounded.Washington Post, 9 August 2022,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...st-up-80000-troops-ukraine-or-75000-or-is-it- 60000/.