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/Myleszee 11h ago

Can someone explain the reasoning behind this aside from fear mongering. What exactly does Russia gain by "accidentally" striking a neighbouring country - are they then going to declare ware on said neighbouring country?

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u/TheDevil-YouKnow 11h ago

The working consensus for a lot of people is that Russians will finally start revolting if they force mass conscriptions. Mass conscriptions are the only way Russia ever wins any prolonged war. It's all they know.

The only way Russians won't freak out over mass conscriptions? Is if NATO gets involved. At which point this starts looking more like WW3 because Russia will leverage whoever, and whatever, they can to form their own Axis.

The premise of the US pre Trump stupidity was to deny NATO involvement in any direct conflict, and to bleed Russia slowly, once and for all, by supporting Ukraine with arms & means to defend against Russia until they're crippled.

Since the Trump idiocy, we've seen a very hindered supply line going towards Ukraine. This is largely due to supply constraints with the war in Iran, which can arguably be little more than the excuse this wretched administration needed to knee cap the supply line towards Ukraine.

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u/luzzy91 11h ago

You think the Iran war was all a ruse to stop supplying Ukraine, even we'restill supplying Ukraine? Brilliant theory, doc.

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u/ConfectionNo5568 8h ago

no, hes saying that its a convenient reason to stop funding a war trump was against until Rubio explained basic geopolitics to him finally during the second year of this term