Trump Is For Lovers

You know Russia isn’t doing well in its war with Ukraine when it has to grovel to North Korea for ammunition. This is another sign that Putin underestimated Ukraine when he illegally invaded that sovereign nation. Who starts a war knowing he’s going to run out of soldiers and bullets?

Russia has hired mercenaries to help fight its illegal war and has also thrown in prisoners who have had very little training. According to reports, the prisoners would rather return to a Russian gulag than have to fight Ukraine. For many, it’s a death sentence. And the leader of the mercenary group turned on Putin, so he had him killed.

So now Putin is seeking arms from North Korea, mostly artillery shells and anti-tank missiles, and you may think it’s a great resource since they have nuclear weapons. Not so much.

North Korea is a nuclear power, but a shoddy nuclear power. That nation is still developing its missile technology to deliver its nuclear weapons. As for the rest of its military, it’s falling apart. Soldiers go unfed. Its Navy doesn’t have a single ship that’s capable of traveling coast to coast around the Korean peninsula. While Kim is spending millions or even billions on his nuclear technology, his people are starving. They’re so hungry, that many of them would consider eating an Air Koryo cheeseburger. More on that in a minute.

And how much of its arsenal is Kim willing to give to Putin? The guy is still paranoid he’ll be invaded by South Korea and the USA any day now. The North’s military is double the size of the South’s, with over a million soldiers to South Korea’s 500,000. But North Korea is only able to spend around $4 billion a year on its military, which is 26 percent of its GDP, while South Korea spends around $44 billion on theirs which is less than three percent of its GDP. If these two nations go to war, North Korea’s going to be fighting with a lot of hungry skinny soldiers. Most of them may use the war to defect to the South. So I don’t see Kim giving Putin a huge percentage of his arsenal. And what state will that ammunition be in?

And have you seen a photo of Kim’s daughter? She does not look like one of the millions of North Koreans who are starving.

Kim is reportedly interested in attaining technology from Russia that will help North Korea establish a presence in space, but this guy couldn’t even fly to meet Putin. He had to take a train. Kim also had to take his personal train when he visited Trump in Singapore and Vietnam. I wonder if, at this moment, Trump feels like Putin and Kim are cheating on him.

North Korea has a state-owned airline which Kim could have taken to Vladivostok, one of the airline’s few destinations (and from there, maybe drive to Vostochny, where the summit was held), but would you want to fly Air North Korea? But at least he could have gotten the legendarily bad Air Koryo cheeseburger. Scientists have traveled to the most isolated country on the planet just to figure out what the hell this thing is. From reports, it’s worse than eating a cheeseburger from 7-11 on Spirit Airlines. I too would rather take a train than fly on Air Koryo, even after that Sloop John B train ride from Hell I took from Fredericksburg to Miami and back. Amtrak’s cheeseburgers have to be better than Air Koryo’s right? At least Amtrak serves alcohol, which you will need if you’re going to travel long distances.

Russia and North Korea are both heavily sanctioned nations, and both will incur more sanctions if they start trading weapons for science. The West and South Korea have implored Kim not to give Putin more weapons to kill innocent civilians in Ukraine, but Kim doesn’t even care about murdering innocent civilians in North Korea. Even Kim’s sister, Kim Yo-Jong, his closest confidante, looks a little malnourished and could probably use a sandwich. Just stay away from that Air Koryo cheeseburger, Yo.

These two nations, and maybe along with Iran and Belarus, are forming a true axis of evil. This is another reason to keep Donald Trump from regaining the presidency (sic) because we don’t want to join them.

Creative note: I decided to use Trump’s actual mugshot photo again instead of drawing it because I think too much time has passed since his fourth arrest, and I wasn’t sure if readers would recognize my drawing of it at this time as the mugshot.

Music note: I listened to Taylor Swift.

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