the usa does this allot, well western media in general, it's often far better to say you are incompetent then letting people know the enemy is actually competent. same thing with the norks, they have been throwing that at the wall and people here and elsewhere lap it up. > ohohoh the norks aren't real. yeah no shit, that isn't the purpose of the story. it has multiple purposes, one is to distract from actual problems at the front. and secondly the whole south korea thing, they needed an excuse to send arms and possibly personnel, and you can't do that if north korea is just "selling some shells to russia." it's not comparative to escalate that to. > well if they are selling shells we will be giving ukraine artillery pieces to fire the shells! it's kind of silly. but then again there's not lots of iq left on either side.
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