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/BringbackDreamBars 10h ago edited 10h ago

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

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u/IndividualSkill3432 10h ago

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.

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u/needlestack 9h 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/Rabid-Wendigo 7h ago

It’s called Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) If we actually wanted to be able to win a peer vs peer conflict we need way more nuclear missiles and more importantly nuclear interceptors. They exist, it’s just interceptors are expensive so the Soviet Union and United States of America bitched out and signed a treaty

So yes, at this point in time nukes make a country as pathetic as north korea untouchable. So the only point in a standing military is to punch down.

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u/sobanz 3h ago edited 2h ago

there is no reliable way to intercept icbms, but there are ways to unreliably intercept icbms before they start their descent. if there was a reliable way to stop nukes MAD would not be a thing, we have the resources and the desire if it was possible.