North Korea is reportedly in talks to send 100,000 soldiers to fight in Ukraine:

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35. Putin is showing his nation has a really bad hand in play this round

Moscow's attempt at military reform has failed to shape a modern force structure as the endemic, massive corruption (CATO has suggested that a fifth of the defense budget is defrauded every year) had hampered Putin's attempted modernization of the military. Russian command failed to ensure air superiority, came up short on command and control, and has been suffering considerable attrition of senior officers, including generals and admirals killed in Ukrainian strikes.

Two months ago, Russian military command sought to compensate for battlefield losses by bringing tanks out of storage, but discovered that in many cases vital hi-tech equipment like gyros and target finders had been stripped. Entire engine blocks had been removed. I also think it revealing that Russia’s largest maker of tanks has ceased operations due to a lack of components.

As the war drags on, the Kremlin is forced to withdraw whatever troops can be “harvested” from other deployments, other actors are likely to be emboldened. Azerbaijan has already resumed its own offensive. Georgia is currently eyeing the recapture of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and Moldova could decide to tackle the breakaway Transnistria. And after the humiliation in Ukraine of the Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, Russia might even be drawn into a third Chechen war.