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Speaker 3: A thirty on a Tuesday, regular listeners know it is
Speaker 3: that time accept when he's on vacation, which I thoroughly
Speaker 3: missed our conversation last week. It is time for the
Speaker 3: Daniel Davis Deep Dive with retired Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Davis.
Speaker 3: Great to see you again, Daniel Again, I missed our
Speaker 3: conversation last Tuesday. I hope you enjoyed your time off.
Speaker 2: I did, but I did miss it too. I got it.
Speaker 2: I gotta admit I did.
Speaker 3: Yeah. It's it's been really fun and enlightening and I
Speaker 3: enjoyed just kind of walking through the exercise of these Obviously,
Speaker 3: very challenging geopolitical issues we're facing these days. And lo
Speaker 3: and behold and pleased to see. The number one you
Speaker 3: had on your list today was the idea that North
Speaker 3: Korea has now sent troops that are hanging out in
Speaker 3: Russia are going to be fighting against the Ukrainians in
Speaker 3: this crazy situation. One. How did the North Koreans end
Speaker 3: up getting involved with this, Daniel?
Speaker 5: Well, you know, there's lots of information floating out there,
Speaker 5: and lots of claims and accusations, but not a lot
Speaker 5: of actual evidence. And I'm I'm still not completely convinced
Speaker 5: that some of these reports that the North Koreans are
Speaker 5: actively engaged on the front lines in the Kursk area
Speaker 5: are accurate. To date, I have seen a single photograph
Speaker 5: of someone that's alleged to be killed in action to
Speaker 5: a North Korean soldier with his passport in front of
Speaker 5: him or something like that.
Speaker 2: All the rest of it has been claims. But here's
Speaker 2: what we do know.
Speaker 5: North Korean troops have been going to Russia to train
Speaker 5: for a long time. There's nothing actually new about that.
Speaker 5: And the initial reports showed both the US and the
Speaker 5: Ukrainian intelligence services said that they were actually in the
Speaker 5: far east of Russia, not on the front lines. And
Speaker 5: then Zelensky came out subsequent to that and said, no,
Speaker 5: they're actually on the front line.
Speaker 2: And look, he's got some motivation.
Speaker 5: You always have to look at who's gotten motive for
Speaker 5: things to work out a certain way. And he's saying
Speaker 5: to everyone, hey, this marks a huge escalation.
Speaker 2: Everybody needs to come and join us and help us now.
Speaker 5: But then you look at the other side and what
Speaker 5: motivation does the Russians have, And I'm not sure that there's.
Speaker 2: Any because there is no shortage of Russian troops.
Speaker 5: I've actually talked to one particular UK soldier, I'm sorry,
Speaker 5: UK citizen who went to fight on the Russian side.
Speaker 5: Very unusual, so I wanted to find out why he
Speaker 5: had done that. But he said, look, there's no shortage
Speaker 5: of personnel or equipment or ammunition or anything on our side,
Speaker 5: and he had not heard anything about the North Koreans.
Speaker 5: But let me also say that from a military perspective,
Speaker 5: and I've done this before in combat, when you fight
Speaker 5: with nations that have different nations and you're fighting on
Speaker 5: the same battlefield, it is really difficult. And this number
Speaker 5: that's been bandied around seven or eight thousand, possibly ten
Speaker 5: or twelve, depending on who you want to talk to.
Speaker 5: That's a comparatively small number in a fight where there's
Speaker 5: somewhere around eight hundred thousand Russian troops fighting alongside. So
Speaker 5: it's not going to make any kind of operational difference,
Speaker 5: and the difficulty would be really high for.
Speaker 2: The Russian side at very little gain.
Speaker 5: So it's unclear to me what's really going on because
Speaker 5: lots of people are claiming different things.
Speaker 3: Well, I suppose you know, from a Russian standpoint, and
Speaker 3: I'll acknowledge your point that they've got enough troops, they
Speaker 3: got enough weapons, and they don't need the additional bodies.
Speaker 3: But from a Russian standpoint, you know, if they want
Speaker 3: to join and help us with a fight, fine, But
Speaker 3: what's North Korea got to gain with this?
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you know what.
Speaker 5: Actually I wanted to go down that path. In my view,
Speaker 5: you talk about who's got something to gain? North Korea
Speaker 5: has more to gain than anybody, and if they wanted
Speaker 5: to because their troops have not had any combat experience
Speaker 5: of any kind for decades, and I can tell you
Speaker 5: that is a big issue.
Speaker 2: So it would make sense to me from.
Speaker 5: A military perspective, if Kim Jong munn said, hey, we're
Speaker 5: giving you all these weapons and artillery shells, et cetera,
Speaker 5: but we want to get something out of it more
Speaker 5: than just cash or food. We want some experience for
Speaker 5: our troops, and so they may send them in to say, hey,
Speaker 5: teach us the most new and current combat operations, the
Speaker 5: way tactics are being done right now, and maybe even
Speaker 5: say hey, let us get some actual combat in there. Again,
Speaker 5: I don't know for sure what's going on, but it
Speaker 5: would make sense from North Korea's perspective to get some
Speaker 5: combat experience.
Speaker 3: Well is that combat experience? And then the more jaded
Speaker 3: and cynical view that I was going to interject is
Speaker 3: maybe the North Korean soldiers want a meal for a change,
Speaker 3: so they get fed by the Russians as of us
Speaker 3: to what their rations are in North Korea just saying yeah, Well.
Speaker 5: As it turns out that the regular North Korean people
Speaker 5: do indeed have privation and food, but the military and
Speaker 5: especially their special forces have always been given a lot
Speaker 5: more than other people, so they do well while the rest.
Speaker 2: Of that countrymen don't.
Speaker 3: All right, before we pivot over to what the election
Speaker 3: will have by way of consequence for foreign affairs. This
Speaker 3: what is alarming to me and I presume you as well,
Speaker 3: as this growing alliance with Russia, China, North Korea and Iran.
Speaker 3: They seem to be playing very very nicely together, which
Speaker 3: presents a much greater threat than you know, the previously
Speaker 3: divided China and Russia they never played nicely together. I
Speaker 3: think Nix had tried to take advantage of that by
Speaker 3: opening relations with China, hoping that they would become more
Speaker 3: Western and open to the concept of Western principles and idea.
Speaker 3: Obviously it didn't go that way, thanks Gianaman Square. But
Speaker 3: Russia and China now playing nice together, engaging in wargame
Speaker 3: exercises the Iranians and enjoying the benefits of weapons back
Speaker 3: and forth. Obviously they're supplying the Russian troops with drones
Speaker 3: for example. I mean, this is not looking good from
Speaker 3: a global situation in terms of this new alignment of
Speaker 3: what are collectively we can characterize as our foes, our enemies,
Speaker 3: or folks that aren't on our side of the ledger anyway.
Speaker 2: Well, look, I mean, Brian, we got to be honest.
Speaker 5: A lot of this is our own making, oh I mean,
Speaker 5: you talked about the Nixon and what he had done
Speaker 5: that made sense for us, and so you know, you
Speaker 5: want to drive a wedge between folks, meaning you got
Speaker 5: to give somebody incentive not to want to be friends
Speaker 5: with the other, and we're doing the exact opposite. We're
Speaker 5: giving these guys every incentive in the world in motivation
Speaker 5: to come together. When before we went into the and
Speaker 5: started supporting the Ukraine side in the World War with Russia,
Speaker 5: those were basically all stowpop They were.
Speaker 2: Kind of all independent.
Speaker 5: They had some especially Russia and China had some relation,
Speaker 5: but it was arms distance, and then North Korea and
Speaker 5: Iran were basically kind of stow pups.
Speaker 2: They were at double arms linked.
Speaker 5: Now then because we're supporting all these sanctions on Russia, China,
Speaker 5: North Korea, and Iran, and we're you know, actively providing
Speaker 5: weapons for Russia, we're giving them every reason in the
Speaker 5: world to say, Okay, there's no value in doing anything
Speaker 5: on your side, so we're going to do things together.
Speaker 5: And then now it's turned into outright military alliances and
Speaker 5: agreements between Russia and North Korea and Russia and Iran.
Speaker 2: So the more we push.
Speaker 5: These guys, the more they get together and as and
Speaker 5: you're right, the bigger potential problems that postes for us
Speaker 5: on the international stage. You don't have to look any
Speaker 5: further than bricks to see the economic fall.
Speaker 2: Out of that.
Speaker 3: I was waiting for bricks to come out. I was
Speaker 3: waiting for the word to come out of your mouth, Daniel.
Speaker 3: I knew it now, as you can now pivot over
Speaker 3: to the election. Obviously, were voting today, and I encourage
Speaker 3: my listeners to get out and vote. I don't know
Speaker 3: how you feel about either candidate, and I think it's
Speaker 3: a material to my comment. Kamala Harris's commander chief scares
Speaker 3: a living hell out of me, Daniel, I have to
Speaker 3: be honest with you. If she's incapable of answering a
Speaker 3: single question without sounding silly or like some college professor
Speaker 3: words solid nonsense. On domestic issues, I haven't heard a
Speaker 3: word from her about foreign policy.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: That is not to say I believe Donald Trump is
Speaker 3: going to be elected and can lay hands and make
Speaker 3: these problems go away immediately. How he's going to do that,
Speaker 3: he hasn't said he promises to do it. At least
Speaker 3: he's he can point to his record where there it
Speaker 3: was a lot more peaceful unto the Trump administration. But
Speaker 3: there's no guarantee we get a return to peace. So
Speaker 3: what are we left with? Daniel Davis opinions? We all
Speaker 3: have one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I have to confess that I also have some
Speaker 5: real concerns about harris presidency just because she has literally
Speaker 5: no experience at all. When she was in the first
Speaker 5: two years of the Biden administration, was sent to a
Speaker 5: lot of international locations. It went very poorly, you may recall,
Speaker 5: and then they kind of took that all for plate
Speaker 5: so there hasn't been anymore since that time. And personnelist
Speaker 5: policy you may have heard that phrase before. And one
Speaker 5: of the big and end of our knowledge is who
Speaker 5: is going to be her senior leaders. Now I'm here
Speaker 5: in Washington, DC, and I'm actively looking to ask people
Speaker 5: who are her senior advisors, who would be maybe some
Speaker 5: of the key people in her cabinet should she be elected,
Speaker 5: and hardly anyone knows, which is alarming to me because
Speaker 5: I'm not sure if she gets elected, who is actually
Speaker 5: going to be calling the shots there, because apparently it's
Speaker 5: not going to be the current Secretary of State Defense
Speaker 5: or National Security advisor apparently they're.
Speaker 2: All going to go.
Speaker 5: But who is it going to be on the other
Speaker 5: side on the Trump side, I actually do know a
Speaker 5: lot of people that are being actively considered for roles,
Speaker 5: and I'll just tell you it makes me very happy
Speaker 5: in some of those So I'm not going to tell
Speaker 5: you about it who to vote for or talk about
Speaker 5: domestic issues, but in foreign policy, some of the people
Speaker 5: who are being talked about at the highest levels for
Speaker 5: the Trump administration are good folks.
Speaker 3: Well, that gives me comfort because of my listening audience,
Speaker 3: a vast majority of at least Trump leaning folks, maybe
Speaker 3: not necessarily outright, you know, always Trumper type of folks,
Speaker 3: but when faced with a choice between Harris and Trump,
Speaker 3: at least insofar as foreign policy in America's military, you
Speaker 3: have more confidence in the folks that Trump might be
Speaker 3: appointing in those roles, And that, of course gives me
Speaker 3: confidence that my listeners are at least on the right
Speaker 3: side of the ledger on that you and I will
Speaker 3: be talking a lot more about this, sadly so, but
Speaker 3: I welcome these conversations. It's going on needs to be addressed,
Speaker 3: and I really appreciate your taking your standpoint look for
Speaker 3: him online wherever you get your podcast. Daniel Davis Deep Dive.
Speaker 3: I'll look forward to it as I always do. Next Tuesday,
Speaker 3: my brother. Have a wonderful week and fingers crossed for
Speaker 3: a smooth transition regardlesss.
Speaker 5: No matter how it turns out, I pray that it's
Speaker 5: peaceful and then it's legitimate and everybody understands how it
Speaker 5: turned out.
Speaker 3: I share your prayer in that regard. Take care of
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