World War III Is a Proxy War

World War III is a proxy war, almost in its entirety. And Russia’s proxies are no longer simply its “non-state” (formerly Wagner) mercenaries, which Putin now fully controls. Now, it’s North Korea, which is desperate for the leverage it can win by being one of Putin’s puppets.  The origins of the narrative that places North Korean troops in Ukraine, fighting for Russia, are found in South Korean intelligence. While there have been wild estimations of how many North Korean troops have been sent to Russia (first…