As NATO Decimates Russia, Putin Allies with Another One of NATO’s Losers — Kim Jong Un 📉

A tandem between two countries that have historically lost to the West somehow makes a winner this time around? 😆

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3 min readJun 19, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Vladivostok, Russia, in April 2019. Photo: Alexander Zemlianicchenko/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

First and foremost, I want to acknowledge that I understand the reasons for Putin’s meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Not only did they meet — in Pyongyang, but they also signed a mutual defence pact, tightening their alliance and military ties against the West. There are three reasons why Putin organized this meeting on his own accord: first, he is losing the war in Ukraine on numerous fronts; second, Russia’s CSTO pact is deteriorating; third, Putin knows that the war he started is only forcing NATO to become more interconnected and interdependent.

None of the media outlets have confirmed these theories. But this is my hypothesis, and on both a pragmatic and theoretical front, it warrants the attention of the West, specifically NATO.

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