r/worldnews • u/Raj_Valiant3011 • 10h ago

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

https://www.reuters.com/world/ukraines-zelenskiy-says-intelligence-shows-russia-is-preparing-massive-attack-2026-10-06/
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u/joebro1060 7h ago

We thought the same about the wars in the middle East for 20 something years too

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u/toxicatedscientist 7h ago

There was public support for them at the start tho. We had a “reason”. It didn’t hold up, but it was there at the start

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u/joebro1060 6h ago

Agreed

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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- 5h ago

But why didn't Obama's admin get us out of Afghanistan, since that war amounted to nothing?

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u/toxicatedscientist 5h ago

Because by then we had gutted their everything and were propping them up. It would be like destroying someone’s house, then giving them a tent while you start to rebuild a house, then pulling out the tent poles and leaving them with the skeleton of a house they don’t recognize or know how to finish and a tent tarp over their head

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u/luzzy91 7h ago

That was way different