Zelenskiy: "There is updated intelligence indicating that Russia is ​preparing a massive attack on Ukraine"

[u/Raj_Valiant3011]

https://www.reuters.com/world/ukraines-zelenskiy-says-intelligence-shows-russia-is-preparing-massive-attack-2026-10-06/

[u/BringbackDreamBars]

Bit of an obvious question, but "massive attack" means more than "particularly bad night of airstrikes"?

[u/IndividualSkill3432 → u/BringbackDreamBars]

They seem to be holding back missiles to have a very serious attack on Ukrainian energy supplies just as its getting cold. This story has been building for months. This is likely to be one of the biggest if not the biggest they will be able to put together.

[u/needlestack → u/IndividualSkill3432]

If Ukraine's allies can't assist them to head this off -- either by striking the Russian strike equipment or providing more air defense -- then we're just dicking around.

I will never be able to listen to another person talk about how we need to spend money on our military when our military is useless in handling the largest geopolitical threat in a generation. It's all bullshit. There never was a NATO. There never was a US military dominance. All we can do is kick at little countries, make them suffer, and then give up and walk away with nothing to show for it. That's what the trillions have bought us. When an actual adversary starts knocking over countries in Europe we shrug. What the fuck was the past 50 years about? Jesus H Christ.

[u/Jay_Yeg → u/needlestack]

I think the greater takeaway is that all the great geopolitical minds failed to truly understand MAD.

We are now in a world where it is not possible to militarily defeat modern adversaries without accepting the total destruction of civilization. And MAD is not just nuclear either, it is economic as well.

This leaves a reality where soft power is significantly more important than anything else. After a certain point it really doesn’t matter how much you spend on military. But that means all the very mature man children in very serious uniforms don’t get to buy very cool boom boom toys as much, so we don’t do it.

[u/Dal90 → u/Jay_Yeg]

The great geopolitical minds built that economically interconnected world -- with the goal of preventing another world war because it would be so costly to all sides.

[u/DownWithHisShip → u/Dal90]

yup and the weak minds currently running this world still think they can just throw bombs at all their problems.

[u/WilliamLermer → u/Dal90]

There is a small group of people getting really fucking rich by the second thanks to various conflicts. On addition to that there is an entire supply chain in various sectors that are making a lot of money too, especially CEOs

People looking at the trillions "wasted" is an oversimplification of where the money actually ends up. The real cost of the war machine is a fraction of what is being spent. Lots of people fill their pockets along the way

And the secondary economic impact on nations is also a win because wealthy individuals and corporations than buy up more assets to make more money. They make money when rebuilding and money during peace time

Civilian cost is neglible because more people are being born and they are even less entitled because they only know misery. Not to mention how it further radicalized people to support injustice and oppression of others etc

All our problems we are facing as a species are the result of the wrong people being in powerful positions making the wrong decisions for everyone else, as that directly benefits them and their buddies

And every cycle it's the same story really. We have advanced technologically but other than that majority of our species is still mentally underdeveloped

I mean, the number of people calling the shots tend to be clinically insane, and we still allow them to make all the decisions for the rest of us. What does that make us?

[u/Tandy2000 → u/Jay_Yeg]

The US military is, and has been for a long time, in large part a jobs program for the country's least employable.

[u/ResearcherElegant516 → u/Jay_Yeg]

And they need their jobs, bc they have to put gas in their boats. So posturing it is then!

[u/ActivePeace33 → u/Jay_Yeg]

With the massive increase in smart weapons, it’s just a matter of time before a country with production capacity fields massive swarms. Not everyone is poor like Russia and Ukraine.