They actually literally just suggested this themselves.
Ladies and gentlemen: we are the oracles of the modern age.
Oh shit.
Beyond troops, it could also open up Ukraine to South Korea’s arms market. South Korea makes a ton of artillery pieces that it doesn’t sell on the international market. Becoming a cobelligerent with Ukraine could change that.
NonCredibleDefense being way too credible once more. This entire conflict has been way too weird to be non-credible about.
Oooh oooh I have bets that SK loosens restrictions on what they will export and can start power pumping out 155mm shells for Ukraine to squash their northern foe.
They’ve already kinda been doing that, just indirectly. Western partners have been giving their old stock of 155 to Ukraine and then resupplying with Korean made 155s.
I think a real game changer would be if they actually decided to give them access to the K2 tank. It would be interesting to see what an actual modern tank could do in Ukraine, especially considering they have layers of protection against drones and atgm. Plus they can crank them off the production line faster than any other nation.
My guess is that South Korea probably only will become directly involved if the US does, and frankly, if the US becomes directly involved, I think that Russia’s going to either fold or play nuclear hardball, either of which kind of shuffles expanded conventional conflict out of the picture.
Russia has absolutely zero chance against the United States in a conventional war. so you’re right, that they’ll either capitulate, or destroy the world.
And even if that’s 90% capitulate, 10% destroy the world, those aren’t really odds I’m interested in taking.
