r/worldnews • u/Raj_Valiant3011 • 11d 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/ChronoLegion2 11d ago

Putin knows this, which is why he keeps pushing the envelope to see how much he can get away with. It’s what Hitler did a century ago. Anything he did he got a pass on, allowing him to turn Germany into a war machine that plunged Europe into an even worse war than the last one. If you don’t stop a man like that, he’ll just keep going

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u/ResearcherElegant516 11d ago

Are you really, seriously ready to start ww3 and possibly the end of the world for Ukraine? Is what they're asking each other in Washington. And it's a valid question. This isn't rhetoric, it could be a Tom Clancy book cone to life.

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u/IluvRockets 11d ago

If Russia can't defeat Ukraine in less than a year more involvement won't suddenly cause Russia to have the same density of attacks against the entirety of NATO, it may look like WW3 happened in Russia though. Proxy wars weren't an issue during the cold war, why now? Russia doesn't respect NATO or the EU, it allows endless cyber attacks from its nation, it does not share our liberal values. Ukraine has given us the ideal situation to have a buffer where we can use our arsenal against an economic and ideological threat without needing to spill our own blood. What are we saving our military capabilities for? Another military threat that isn't Russia or collaborating with Russia? How many of those are there? I don't know about you, but us ignoring an invasion next door doesn't really seem like an incentive for Russia to stop doing it. Okay, maybe Russia doesn't have a chance against NATO members. Who says that Putin or his successor won't try to gamble and attack another nation that they can't defeat? Russia stopping with Ukraine is entirely reliant on a nation never making a political mistake. Not even democratic countries are that reliable, much less a government that has no inhibition to invade their neighbor and is lead by one fallible person.

History never stops happening. If we don't stop Russia now, there will eventually be conflict. How often do you think you'll read through history books about a country making propaganda against others (including invading and nuking them), already leading a war going in their direction and then they suddenly coexist peacefully for the rest of the century?

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u/Pandelein 11d ago

China. They’re keeping the military available in case China gets superintelligent AI first.

Just my guess.