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A thirty on a Tuesday, regular listeners know it is
that time accept when he's on vacation, which I thoroughly
missed our conversation last week. It is time for the
Daniel Davis Deep Dive with retired Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Davis.
Great to see you again, Daniel Again, I missed our
conversation last Tuesday. I hope you enjoyed your time off.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I did, but I did miss it too. I got it.
I gotta admit I did.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Yeah. It's it's been really fun and enlightening and I
enjoyed just kind of walking through the exercise of these Obviously,
very challenging geopolitical issues we're facing these days. And lo
and behold and pleased to see. The number one you
had on your list today was the idea that North
Korea has now sent troops that are hanging out in
Russia are going to be fighting against the Ukrainians in
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this crazy situation. One. How did the North Koreans end
up getting involved with this, Daniel?
Speaker 5 (02:14):
Well, you know, there's lots of information floating out there,
and lots of claims and accusations, but not a lot
of actual evidence. And I'm I'm still not completely convinced
that some of these reports that the North Koreans are
actively engaged on the front lines in the Kursk area
are accurate. To date, I have seen a single photograph
of someone that's alleged to be killed in action to
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a North Korean soldier with his passport in front of
him or something like that.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
All the rest of it has been claims. But here's
what we do know.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
North Korean troops have been going to Russia to train
for a long time. There's nothing actually new about that.
And the initial reports showed both the US and the
Ukrainian intelligence services said that they were actually in the
far east of Russia, not on the front lines. And
then Zelensky came out subsequent to that and said, no,
they're actually on the front line.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
And look, he's got some motivation.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
You always have to look at who's gotten motive for
things to work out a certain way. And he's saying
to everyone, hey, this marks a huge escalation.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Everybody needs to come and join us and help us now.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
But then you look at the other side and what
motivation does the Russians have, And I'm not sure that there's.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Any because there is no shortage of Russian troops.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
I've actually talked to one particular UK soldier, I'm sorry,
UK citizen who went to fight on the Russian side.
Very unusual, so I wanted to find out why he
had done that. But he said, look, there's no shortage
of personnel or equipment or ammunition or anything on our side,
and he had not heard anything about the North Koreans.
But let me also say that from a military perspective,
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and I've done this before in combat, when you fight
with nations that have different nations and you're fighting on
the same battlefield, it is really difficult. And this number
that's been bandied around seven or eight thousand, possibly ten
or twelve, depending on who you want to talk to.
That's a comparatively small number in a fight where there's
somewhere around eight hundred thousand Russian troops fighting alongside. So
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it's not going to make any kind of operational difference,
and the difficulty would be really high for.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
The Russian side at very little gain.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
So it's unclear to me what's really going on because
lots of people are claiming different things.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Well, I suppose you know, from a Russian standpoint, and
I'll acknowledge your point that they've got enough troops, they
got enough weapons, and they don't need the additional bodies.
But from a Russian standpoint, you know, if they want
to join and help us with a fight, fine, But
what's North Korea got to gain with this?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Well, yeah, you know what.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Actually I wanted to go down that path. In my view,
you talk about who's got something to gain? North Korea
has more to gain than anybody, and if they wanted
to because their troops have not had any combat experience
of any kind for decades, and I can tell you
that is a big issue.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
So it would make sense to me from.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
A military perspective, if Kim Jong munn said, hey, we're
giving you all these weapons and artillery shells, et cetera,
but we want to get something out of it more
than just cash or food. We want some experience for
our troops, and so they may send them in to say, hey,
teach us the most new and current combat operations, the
way tactics are being done right now, and maybe even
say hey, let us get some actual combat in there. Again,
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I don't know for sure what's going on, but it
would make sense from North Korea's perspective to get some
combat experience.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Well is that combat experience? And then the more jaded
and cynical view that I was going to interject is
maybe the North Korean soldiers want a meal for a change,
so they get fed by the Russians as of us
to what their rations are in North Korea just saying yeah, Well.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
As it turns out that the regular North Korean people
do indeed have privation and food, but the military and
especially their special forces have always been given a lot
more than other people, so they do well while the rest.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Of that countrymen don't.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
All right, before we pivot over to what the election
will have by way of consequence for foreign affairs. This
what is alarming to me and I presume you as well,
as this growing alliance with Russia, China, North Korea and Iran.
They seem to be playing very very nicely together, which
presents a much greater threat than you know, the previously
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divided China and Russia they never played nicely together. I
think Nix had tried to take advantage of that by
opening relations with China, hoping that they would become more
Western and open to the concept of Western principles and idea.
Obviously it didn't go that way, thanks Gianaman Square. But
Russia and China now playing nice together, engaging in wargame
exercises the Iranians and enjoying the benefits of weapons back
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and forth. Obviously they're supplying the Russian troops with drones
for example. I mean, this is not looking good from
a global situation in terms of this new alignment of
what are collectively we can characterize as our foes, our enemies,
or folks that aren't on our side of the ledger anyway.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Well, look, I mean, Brian, we got to be honest.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
A lot of this is our own making, oh I mean,
you talked about the Nixon and what he had done
that made sense for us, and so you know, you
want to drive a wedge between folks, meaning you got
to give somebody incentive not to want to be friends
with the other, and we're doing the exact opposite. We're
giving these guys every incentive in the world in motivation
to come together. When before we went into the and
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started supporting the Ukraine side in the World War with Russia,
those were basically all stowpop They were.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Kind of all independent.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
They had some especially Russia and China had some relation,
but it was arms distance, and then North Korea and
Iran were basically kind of stow pups.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
They were at double arms linked.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Now then because we're supporting all these sanctions on Russia, China,
North Korea, and Iran, and we're you know, actively providing
weapons for Russia, we're giving them every reason in the
world to say, Okay, there's no value in doing anything
on your side, so we're going to do things together.
And then now it's turned into outright military alliances and
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agreements between Russia and North Korea and Russia and Iran.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
So the more we push.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
These guys, the more they get together and as and
you're right, the bigger potential problems that postes for us
on the international stage. You don't have to look any
further than bricks to see the economic fall.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Out of that.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
I was waiting for bricks to come out. I was
waiting for the word to come out of your mouth, Daniel.
I knew it now, as you can now pivot over
to the election. Obviously, were voting today, and I encourage
my listeners to get out and vote. I don't know
how you feel about either candidate, and I think it's
a material to my comment. Kamala Harris's commander chief scares
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a living hell out of me, Daniel, I have to
be honest with you. If she's incapable of answering a
single question without sounding silly or like some college professor
words solid nonsense. On domestic issues, I haven't heard a
word from her about foreign policy.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Now.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
That is not to say I believe Donald Trump is
going to be elected and can lay hands and make
these problems go away immediately. How he's going to do that,
he hasn't said he promises to do it. At least
he's he can point to his record where there it
was a lot more peaceful unto the Trump administration. But
there's no guarantee we get a return to peace. So
what are we left with? Daniel Davis opinions? We all
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have one.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Yeah, I have to confess that I also have some
real concerns about harris presidency just because she has literally
no experience at all. When she was in the first
two years of the Biden administration, was sent to a
lot of international locations. It went very poorly, you may recall,
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and then they kind of took that all for plate
so there hasn't been anymore since that time. And personnelist
policy you may have heard that phrase before. And one
of the big and end of our knowledge is who
is going to be her senior leaders. Now I'm here
in Washington, DC, and I'm actively looking to ask people
who are her senior advisors, who would be maybe some
of the key people in her cabinet should she be elected,
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and hardly anyone knows, which is alarming to me because
I'm not sure if she gets elected, who is actually
going to be calling the shots there, because apparently it's
not going to be the current Secretary of State Defense
or National Security advisor apparently they're.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
All going to go.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
But who is it going to be on the other
side on the Trump side, I actually do know a
lot of people that are being actively considered for roles,
and I'll just tell you it makes me very happy
in some of those So I'm not going to tell
you about it who to vote for or talk about
domestic issues, but in foreign policy, some of the people
who are being talked about at the highest levels for
the Trump administration are good folks.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Well, that gives me comfort because of my listening audience,
a vast majority of at least Trump leaning folks, maybe
not necessarily outright, you know, always Trumper type of folks,
but when faced with a choice between Harris and Trump,
at least insofar as foreign policy in America's military, you
have more confidence in the folks that Trump might be
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appointing in those roles, And that, of course gives me
confidence that my listeners are at least on the right
side of the ledger on that you and I will
be talking a lot more about this, sadly so, but
I welcome these conversations. It's going on needs to be addressed,
and I really appreciate your taking your standpoint look for
him online wherever you get your podcast. Daniel Davis Deep Dive.
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I'll look forward to it as I always do. Next Tuesday,
my brother. Have a wonderful week and fingers crossed for
a smooth transition regardlesss.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
No matter how it turns out, I pray that it's
peaceful and then it's legitimate and everybody understands how it
turned out.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
I share your prayer in that regard. Take care of
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The raging fires in the Middle East, Iran first becoming
and in phero jetering.
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On the brink.
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The evil is now laid bill for all to see.
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Of a Middle East meltdown. The whole Middle East has
been unraveling. What happens next.
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People prepare but not giving them panic.
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