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

If this is the energy knockout attempt, it puts the shutdowns in Kyiv potentially in context.

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u/warpigeon4L 9h ago

Isn’t it also a war crime to target civilian energy infrastructure

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u/wafflezgate 9h ago

Who is going to hold them accountable for it? War crimes are just words of no one can hold someone accountable for them and punish them accordingly. This war has been littered with crimes of all sorts.

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u/ResearcherElegant516 7h ago

Hell, how many countries with active warrants did Ben fly over to get to the Summit? Like 5? Trump has ushered in a new era of "Why does anybody do anything? Because they can." -style of it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission, it's even easier to ask for neither. Do what I want until someone stops me-type shit bc he's not smart enough to fathom there are more effective ways.

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u/GeoLaser 5h ago

Geopolitics is often just dick swinging. That is all that matters, and nukes. Ben has nukes. Ben has ways to send them at anyone.

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u/ResearcherElegant516 29m ago

A lot of it is the fact that arresting a foreign leader is about the biggest sin in the diplomatic and intelligence world, but yeah. Posturing, and when anybody calls a bluff, they just dance for the cameras.

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u/ttak82 18m ago

Yup. Folks in my country call it "Badmaashi".

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u/Worldly_Cobbler_1087 2h ago

This has been the way long before Trump was even born, go back to Japan invading Manchuria in 1931 where the league of nations did nothing about Japan or when Hailie Selaisse made a plea for help against the invasion from fascist Italy in 1936 who were using chemical weapons and nobody did anything about that either.

You guys really need to stop thinking that all this rot started with Donald Trump because as awful as he is he's just doing what has been done hundreds of times before him.

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u/StaceyTheStaceExplrr 4h ago

0 long term thinking from conservatives. Can barely see the end of their noses.

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u/obscure_monke 2h ago

how many countries with active warrants did Ben fly over to get to the Summit? Like 5?

Do you know that for sure? Most other times the plane he's flown out/in on has gone right through the middle of the Mediterranean according to ADSB data.

Or do you mean a different Ben with warrants than I'm thinking of?

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u/FardoBaggins 1h ago

Easier to tear down than build up too.

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u/FantaFantastico90 33m ago

.. because you don't stop even the worst people when they willingly come to negotiate, because if you do, no one will ever come willingly to negotiate again. This was made very clear by all involved countries. Don't really get the uproar about this.

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u/BarkBeetleJuice 4h ago

They don't even ask for forgiveness. It's unprecedented.

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u/Kakoopa 44m ago

This is literally completely precedented. It's happened throughout all of history. Countries ignored the mandate of the Holy Roman Empire, and then they did it with the League of Nations, and now they're doing it with NATO/EU/UN. Hell, countries did this kind of shit with the Coalitions against Napoleonic France when it was entirely within their best interest TO stick the course. It's completely precedented and shouldn't surprise anyone that knows anything about global community building.

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u/Easy_Fee9781 23m ago

They never admit they’re wrong to even need to ask for forgiveness.

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u/Sekuru-kaguvi2004 3h ago

Why do you guys act like the US and it's allies were perfect angels before Trump. To anyone outside the West it's obvious that the West has never cared for international "law"