Russian president delivered the warning after Seoul announced it would consider arming Kyiv.

Russian president delivered the warning after Seoul announced it would consider arming Kyiv.

Russian President Vladimir Putin Thursday warned South Korea that sending lethal weapons to Ukraine would be a “big mistake.”

His comments come after Seoul announced it would consider arming Ukraine in response to Russia and North Korea signing a mutual defense pact on Wednesday.

“If South Korea supplies weapons to Ukraine, it will not like the answer. I hope they won’t do it, it would be a big mistake,” Putin said at a press conference in Vietnam, where he is conducting a two-day state visit aimed at deepening strategic cooperation.

  • Buelldozer@lemmy.todayEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    “World War III started 3 years ago” is the stuff of a conspiracist’s fever dream and is not based in any objective reality

    I would have said that too…until I watched the Ryan McBeth video about it. I’m still not sure he’s correct but he does make a convincing argument that were not only in it but that it started in 2014.

    • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      At that point you’re kind of arguing that there was only one World War with a 20-year armistice. I can see what they mean, and certainly tensions are escalating, but we’ve still made a concerted effort to not drag more people in while limiting the expansion of Russia’s territory.

      In 5 or 10 years we will be talking about how we avoided the Russia-Ukraine conflict expanding into another world war or we will be talking about how these were the first stages of that conflict.

    • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      I was just about to link that video. He does put forward a convincing thesis in fairness to him.

    • protist@mander.xyzEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      His argument doesn’t make it sound at all like WW II though, there are way more parallels with the Cold War