Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he’s willing to hand over the soldiers to North Korea, if Kim Jong Un arranges for an exchange with Ukrainian prisoners of war in Russia.
If I’m a tyrannical overlord that is sending bodies to a meatgrinding war that means nothing to me, I’ll rather send those too ambitious for their own sake or those that I can live without. In other words I’ll use it as an excuse to weed out.
I wouldn’t take away the fanatics as those might be part of the foundations of my power.
It’s what happened to my grandfather, kind of… Russian soldier caught by the Nazis, escaped from a concentration camp to Italy, met my grandmother. Because he didn’t go back to Russia, he was considered a deserter, so his family was killed. My aunt travelled to Russia in the late 90’s to try to find more information, she was quickly escorted out of the country for trying to dig into what happened.
I wouldn’t be saying anything that could get my family back home killed either.
Yeah I don’t expect Kim’d let anybody leave NK that isn’t either fanatically loyal or under their thumb somehow even whilst abroad.
If I’m a tyrannical overlord that is sending bodies to a meatgrinding war that means nothing to me, I’ll rather send those too ambitious for their own sake or those that I can live without. In other words I’ll use it as an excuse to weed out.
I wouldn’t take away the fanatics as those might be part of the foundations of my power.
Also propaganda.
Being captured could do that.
It’s what happened to my grandfather, kind of… Russian soldier caught by the Nazis, escaped from a concentration camp to Italy, met my grandmother. Because he didn’t go back to Russia, he was considered a deserter, so his family was killed. My aunt travelled to Russia in the late 90’s to try to find more information, she was quickly escorted out of the country for trying to dig into what happened.