Eh, no way to be sure either way but that sounds like a lot of atlantic council think-tank cope that's always downtalking geopolitical rivals and will say anything to pretend there's reason to launder more money in Ukraine. There's been enough fake Ukraine is winning coverage that I assume Russia/China faltering news is equally fake.

But, these same think tanks would also tell you that because they're faltering so badly, they're cornered and will make it a 3 front standoff out of desperation.

lol, straight out of the Atlantic...

It would make sense for NK to send bodies to Russia for any number of reasons, but that doesn't put SK back on the board, Seoul is a nuclear hostage.

In the last few years one of our subs "crashed into a mountain" and had to get limped home and then we found that the materials tests in their construction were being forged. This was around the same time we splashed an F-35 off a carrier.

I wouldn't compare our abilities to produce things because we won't look good.