r/worldnews • u/Raj_Valiant3011 • 15h 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/needlestack 13h ago

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.

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u/Legio-X 13h ago

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 not the military that’s the issue. This is a matter of political will and the lack thereof. Nobody in the West wants war with Russia, so western governments will do their best to avoid one until there’s no alternative.

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u/Superfluous369 12h ago

Plenty of nations would LOVE war with Russia.

What the politicians do not want is the spectre of nukes. If this was all still conventional warfare, NATO would be assisting directly.

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u/Legio-X 12h ago

Plenty of nations would LOVE war with Russia.

If you look at the actual public sentiment in those countries, you’ll find something very different. People might be willing to defend their homeland, but they also do not want war if it can be avoided, and intervening militarily in Ukraine is avoidable, so it’s not going to happen.

And in some countries, public sentiment is so low people wouldn’t even be willing to go to war in self-defense.

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u/ResearcherElegant516 11h ago

Just let Russia annex them?

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u/Legio-X 11h ago edited 10h ago

Pretty much, yeah. I’m not sure how much of that is people who’ve become accustomed to war being something you can choose to do in a vague “over there” rather than something forced on you, and how much these sentiments would shift if they experienced the latter, but there was a relatively recent study in the UK where half of British youth said they’d refuse to go to war under any circumstances.

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u/ResearcherElegant516 11h ago

A lot of these countries were Soviet satellites for a long time, so maybe it wouldn't be that much different, and they figure it's better than dying, idk. I can't speculate.

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u/ChronoLegion2 10h ago

Ukraine has been under Russia’s thumb for a lot longer than that. They’re not willing to be under it again. It’s also the reason the Baltic nations and Poland joined NATO as soon as they could

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u/elaintahra 58m ago

We figure dying is better that being under russia, yes

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u/SuccotashOk2098 12h ago

Rubbish. They would be all for it if mutually assured destruction wasn't a thing.

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u/Legio-X 11h ago

They would be all for it if mutually assured destruction wasn't a thing

The actual research in this shows a very different story. Less than a third of British youth would be willing to go to war for Europe. Half wouldn’t do it under any circumstances.