South Korean president is attempting a coup d'etat
(www.reuters.com)
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Ironically from this, I can actually see the NORTH Koreans going 'Get Trump on the phone, get Trump on the phone!' as the South is VERY militarily advanced compared to the North so would rather have a deal with the Trump presidency in place than risk a possible conflict with an authoritarian south.
Advanced isn't especially relevant in a fight at those ranges. The Norks make more shells than most of the rest of the world combined. Enough to comfortably sell their surplus to the Russians.
If the past few years have taught me anything, it's that advanced weaponry counts for less than people think. Just because the US can crush the Iraqi army like a bug, doesn't mean that technology will make the decisive difference between two sides where one doesn't outmatch the other by several orders of magnitude.
Sort of like World War I: if you have warm bodies to throw into the fight, and they don't desert like the Russians did, you can get very far.
So then as usual you didn't learn anything and you still think you get to talk about military matters from an armchair.
Technological parity or lack thereof is critically important, but neglecting manufacturing capability and the moral and physical fitness of the citizenry for it is a trap. One that the United States fell into at the behest of foreign interests and internal corruption.
Warfare is, among other things, a balancing act between force multipliers.
Not exactly a chair, but sort of.
All the 'modernization' didn't help Russia. All the Wonder Weapons didn't help Ukraine. Now it's the same old grind.