THE THIRD WORLD AGAINST UKRAINE

Kim getting the inspiration for North Korea's intervention in the Ukraine War.

by Cemil Kerimoglu

This is not solely Russia’s war against Ukraine anymore. Russia alone has already lost the war. It has been depleted of its resources and manpower. Its economy is indeed in shambles, with rising inflation, creeping food shortages, and heading towards a big crash.

But this didn’t make Ukraine’s or Europe’s situation better. Ukraine's western partners assumed that faced with hopeless situation on the battlefield and deteriorating conditions at home Russia would finally give up. However, those who knew Russia very well, like yours faithfully, were aware from the very beginning that Russia will not let it go. That Russia will not rest until it has destroyed the Ukrainian nation and rooted out the unique Ukrainian identity.

Those familiar with the dark depths of the Russian nature knew that faced with domestic shortages Russians would start scouring for resources elsewhere, and that they will especially tap into the vast human resources of the Third World to support their genocidal invasion of Ukraine. That process already started when Russian military began to be supplanted with Iranian Shahed drones in the autumn of 2022. Faced with shortages in ammunition and missiles Russians did not simply give up as naive westerners had hoped. Instead they resorted to help from other forces of Evil. Later, it was revealed that Russia mobilizes a significant amount of mercenaries from Africa, India, Nepal and migrants from Central Asian republics. Soon after, Russia signed an agreement of military cooperation with North Korea through which the latter provided Russia with millions of rounds of ammunition, much more than Ukraine's western partners could amass for Ukraine in their combined effort(!), and also with long-range missiles.

What is noteworthy is that throughout this whole process the forces of Evil represented by Iran and North Korea did not have any qualms about their ammunition hitting Ukrainian territory and killing Ukrainians. They did not put any restrictions on Russia and were not bothered by the possibility of being considered at war with Ukraine — a sovereign European nation. All the while the West, first and foremost the timid and neurotic Biden Administration in the US, has been forcing Ukraine to fight with one hand tied behind its back, first withholding and then putting restrictions on the usage of western-supplied long-range missiles, because God forbid the war might be carried into Russian soil and Russia will assume that it is at war with NATO. Reminder: Russian propaganda has been blatantly claiming from the start that it is at war with NATO, instead of all the pathetic efforts of appeasement by the latter.

And now, Russia has embarked on the next logical step that was obvious to the author and anyone else who knows Russians well. More than 10,000 North Korean troops will join in the invasion of Ukraine with more batches expected to follow later. True to its nature and inner calling, Russia has mobilized all the anti-western, in fact explicitly anti-white, forces in the world in order to carry out the genocide of a beautiful European nation. After it had shed its artificial European veneer — the pseudomorphosis that sat uneasily on the Russian people — with the Bolshevik Revolution, Russia has consistently acted as the vanguard of Third Worldist anti-western, anti-white ressentiment. Putin’s Russia follows along the same path that became all the clearer with the invasion of Ukraine. In fact, this is not something new in Russian/Muscovite history. In the 15th century, Muscovy — the predecessor of the present-day Russian state, destroyed and nipped in the bud a blossoming East Slavic polity, a nascent European nation — the Novgorod Republic, by mobilizing the vast resources of Eurasia for its genocidal aims. Back then a pivotal factor in Muscovy's victory over Novgorod, for instance, was the use of Tatar cavalry.

The only morally acceptable option for the West currently is to intervene with boots on the ground to help Ukraine. We cannot allow Russia to once again kill a nascent blossoming European nation and crush an emerging European identity like it did with the Novgorod Republic back in the 15th century. This will throw Eastern Europe into a new age of darkness and gloom. At the very least, and this is really the bare minimum of what the western nations are morally obliged to do, is to send an equal amount of soldiers to the one provided by North Korea and potentially Russia’s other partners in crime in the future. After all, what prevents Russia from receiving even more soldiers from North Korea — 20,000, 30,000, 50,000? Or from Iran, Cuba and Venezuela? Or even from China? All in order to support its barbaric meatwave attacks against Ukraine.

By what moral or logical standards is it acceptable that Russia gets the freedom to tap into the endless resources in the Third World to support its invasion, whereas Ukraine is still constrained in its war effort and left to fight alone? At this stage the West is morally obliged to lift all restrictions on Ukraine, and enter the war itself with boots on the ground. Anything short of this will amount to betrayal and a new moral low that will gnaw at us forever. Even if the West somehow miraculously avoids large-scale conflict and manages to buy the peace by betraying Ukraine and allowing it to be devoured by the Third World hordes led by Russia, that life of peace and comfort will not be worth living with such a weight on our conscience.

This situation in fact echoes the Greek war of Independence (1821-1829) from the Ottoman Empire. Back then, when the Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II found himself unable to suppress the Greek uprising, he urgently appealed to the viceroy of Egypt — Kavalali Mehmet Ali Pasha for help in dealing with the Greek freedom fighters. Mehmet Ali Pasha agreed to help with his huge and highly competent Egyptian fleet. Although Egypt, under the rule of Mehmet Ali Pasha, was nominally a vassal of the Ottoman Empire, effectively it was an independent state. Therefore, the Egyptian involvement to help Turks crush the Greek rebellion was viewed by European powers as a step too far and as the direct involvement of a second, independent party against the Greeks — a move deemed intolerable. Recognizing the moral and political stakes, European nations intervened decisively. In 1827, they confronted and annihilated the combined Ottoman-Egyptian fleet at the Battle of Navarino (1827), obliterating Mehmet Ali Pasha's navy. This was seen as the only morally justifiable response to help the Greeks in their noble fight.

In the 19th century, leading European nations had been cautious about decisively countering the Ottoman Empire, fearing its collapse might disrupt the balance of power in Europe and destabilize the region, just as they hesitate today with Russia. Their reluctance to support the Greeks fully at the outset led to extended suffering and needless losses. Had the European powers intervened early on, the Greek struggle might have succeeded swiftly and with far less bloodshed. Yet, despite their wariness, when they observed that the Turks were mobilizing foreign resources — rather than fighting solely with their own — they recognized that passivity and conflict avoidance was no longer an option. Supporting the Greeks then became a moral imperative, a call to action they could not ignore.

Today, we find ourselves in a parallel moment. North Korea’s direct involvement in Russia’s war against Ukraine signifies a shift that demands the West’s immediate and tangible intervention. Just as European nations stood by the Greeks when a second power was enlisted to quash their fight for independence, the West must recognize its moral duty to Ukraine. Only by matching Russia’s foreign-backed forces with a robust presence of its own can the West redeem itself morally and prevent a repeat of history — the destruction of a nascent European nation as was done to the Republic of Novgorod by Muscovy in the 15th century. The moral duty before us is unequivocal, as it was in the 19th century. Failure to act now will weigh on our collective conscience for generations.

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