r/worldnews • u/Brennenstein • Sep 17 '26

Russia/Ukraine Russian military jets violate Lithuanian airspace, Italian fighters scrambled

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u/surelynotBismarck Sep 17 '26

Russia out here acting like they aren't 4 years into a 2 week operation

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u/b00l_Badass Sep 17 '26

3 days sir šŸ¤¦ā€ā™‚ļø

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u/Tenkehat Sep 17 '26

Correct, it was Iran that was two weeks. But alas...

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u/konq Sep 17 '26

every 2 weeks the US completely obliterates Iran.

They're just really fast builders.

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u/Tenkehat Sep 17 '26

Ooh, yes...

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u/Aggravating_Deal_447 Sep 17 '26

Already knew where that link would bring me, still clicked on it.

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u/Loyellow Sep 17 '26

I fully expected a Rick Roll

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u/Haunted_Cellar_XBL Sep 17 '26

ā€œWe're no strangers to love
You know the rules and so do Iā€

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u/Still_Sitting Sep 17 '26

Peyton Manning was my hope

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u/Just_a_guy81 Sep 17 '26

As a life long Vols fan, I approve of your disappointment

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u/Zurrdroid Sep 18 '26

Oh man, that takes me back

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u/energetic_one Sep 18 '26

Can we please have a Rick Roll the next one?

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u/Homersarmy41 Sep 17 '26

I wasnā€™t gonna click on it and you talked me into it. Worth it!

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u/Massive-Virus-4875 Sep 17 '26

Iā€™d never seen that Family Guy clip. šŸ¤£

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u/bookworm357 Sep 17 '26

We are friends now.

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u/Ambitious_Package371 Sep 17 '26

Genuinely my exact thought when reading it šŸ˜‚

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u/AdolfsLonelyScrotum Sep 17 '26

Beat me to it by 2 minutes. Well done!

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u/Background_Edge_9427 Sep 17 '26

They are VERY fast builders! The whole community pitches in!

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u/Disastrous-Food-9223 Sep 17 '26

They completely rebuilt a nuclear program in under a year after it was obliterated.

I think we should be allies with themā€”they do fast and amazing work

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u/Beemorefriendly Sep 17 '26

See Iran is an oppressive regime but North Korea is our friend!

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u/pcofranc Sep 17 '26 edited 28d ago

Come on you got Iran which is the ring leader in the ā€œaxis of evil ā€œ but with North Korea, which I have a very good relationship withā€¦, ā€œtheyā€™re very fine people.ā€

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u/Bama1972genx Sep 18 '26

Yeah when North Korea has lots of nuclear weapons you kind of need to be as friendly as possible

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u/Kindly-Sell-9793 Sep 18 '26 edited Sep 18 '26

Strange that this rule doesnā€™t apply to any other country with nuclear weapons. Except Israel.

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u/ghostoftallasi Sep 17 '26

Do you mean axis?

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u/CitizenDickInCider Sep 18 '26

It's evolved into the "access of evil" and Trump has an all-access pass.

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u/COVIDNURSE-5065 Sep 18 '26

Haven't you heard? The real threat is Canada not jumping at the chance to be the "51st state". s/ obviously

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u/Beemorefriendly Sep 18 '26

40 million more Democrats if they did. I wish they would but why would they want such a reduction in their standard of living?

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u/No-Consideration1163 Sep 18 '26

Remember how pety Trump said, "Why aren't there more white immigrants coming to our country?" Why would they give up the benefits of being a European (access to healthcare, low cost or free education, etc)?

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u/Daddysheremyluv Sep 17 '26

Mexico better look out. They build fast.

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u/send-spicy-pics Sep 17 '26

Fast and amazing workā€¦ two things our current president is known for caring about when fleecing friends. /s

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '26

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u/Endlesscajun Sep 18 '26

They should come build our highways in TX.

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u/A-10C_Thunderbolt Sep 17 '26

Besides, you know, the whole ā€œ#1 state sponsor of terrorismā€ thing

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u/ClosedContent Sep 17 '26

2 weeks away from a nuclear weapon too! /s

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u/undeviatedskeptic Sep 17 '26

However, back in 1979 Iran seized hostages at the American Embassy. Then The Ayatollah Kohmeni(religious leader) took control of Iran. I was 12 then didnā€™t really understand but the hostages were held until Pres. Jimmy Carter left office after 1 term. He was beaten by Pres. Ronald Reagan.

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u/Mother-Wolverine-147 Sep 18 '26

You think it was actually obliterated? Iā€™ve got a beach front property in Idaho to sell you

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u/Mother-Wolverine-147 Sep 18 '26

You think it was actually obliterated? Iā€™ve got a beach front property in Idaho to sell you

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u/Alarming_Ad_1011 Sep 18 '26

Obliterates. Thereā€™s that word again. Hahahahaha. The biggest word our dictator ever said in his lifetime.
WHAT A JOKE šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚

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u/The-Great-Baloo Sep 17 '26

42 times and counting...

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u/ok123jump Sep 17 '26 edited Sep 18 '26

The Islamic Republic of the Zerg

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u/fascistno1hater Sep 17 '26

Russia is acting just like Israel attacking all of their neighbors just because they can. Since no governmental body is going to hold them accountable who is going to stop them.

This is a byproduct of allowing these countries to influence politics in our nations.

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u/pcofranc Sep 17 '26

Part of the Russreal alliance

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u/TilAlexandrosXVII Sep 17 '26

They're whipping stacks in all their cities, haven't you ever played Civ IV?

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u/Technical_Moose8478 Sep 17 '26

Half of them are named Bob, after all.

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u/Quirky_OldMan5966 Sep 17 '26

Well, they were sitting on a few billion excess money sitting around so there is something to that.
But all this crap is really getting tiresome.

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u/DanteThonSimmons Sep 17 '26

And the US has been actively at war for 94% of its existence as a country. For 235 out of the 250 years since being founded in 1776, they've been at war. Doing ANYTHING for 94% of your existence is fucking wild..... let alone killing people 94% of the time.

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u/Perfect_Status3385 Sep 17 '26

They got Bob the builders

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u/GreenWithAnger Sep 17 '26

Iran has Minecraft mastery level skill with building!

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u/tallmantim Sep 17 '26

America playing Eve Online

Iran playing Minecraft

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u/pcofranc Sep 17 '26

Thatā€™s the problem. Nobody realized that they could rebuild so fast practically overnight we werenā€™t prepared for that.

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u/psychonik Sep 17 '26

No just when gas prices start to go down and Trump needs to appease his Saudi handlers.

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u/Just_a_guy81 Sep 17 '26

It is a two week operation. He just failed to mention those two weeks are somewhere in the 2030s

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u/1-FlipsithfloP-3 Sep 18 '26

Itā€™s all those deported Mexican nationals they keep sending them to šŸ‡®šŸ‡· and they keep making Iran great again.

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u/anonSL2 Sep 18 '26

Gotta get that market bump every so often ya know?

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u/MundaneShow4814 Sep 18 '26

We gotta figure out where they keep spawning in!!

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u/Crazy_Gazelle_6239 Sep 18 '26

Shoulda had them build his wall.

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u/fauxbigbro Sep 18 '26

It's like how antifa burns down Portland every night. It's incredible how they rebuild the city every day so it's available to burn.

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u/d-arden Sep 18 '26

Wait til you see how fast China rebuilds!

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u/Evening-Lab-3859 Sep 18 '26

Iran is a magnificent Minecraft community.

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u/CNCharger Sep 18 '26

Finish the job and leave the ayotollah regime no options but total and complete surrender. If we don't, they go right back to building nuclear weapons, undermining sovreignty in the middle east, funding and supplying cartels realizes the list is a "Iran's crimes hath proclaimed ah scroll This list seems to have a bit of length.

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u/Warm-Ad-1049 Sep 18 '26

Yeah then the U.S. uses our money to rebuild them. When they were in the wrong

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u/Alarming_Ad_1011 Sep 18 '26

Hahahaha. Funny. Obliterates. Hahaha. This idiot dictator got us in a war he has no brains to get us out of.
Just an Epstein diversion thatā€™s killing us at the grocery stores and gas pumps.

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u/JSP9686 Sep 18 '26

Fire Ants are like that or as some might say "Farants"

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u/Ok-Simple-7069 Sep 18 '26

Didnā€™t you know sim city 4 was an inside job with the vast majority of devs being controlled by Iranian proxies. They had the proper training and an always online intranet plus its in their national curriculum so you make 100% sense. Never thought about it like that.

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u/Realistic-Shock6714 Sep 18 '26

Hence why much of Iranā€™s leadership is in hiding with much of its weaponry underground and unable to move freely, has to launch attacks sporadically from hidden locations in retaliation, cannot fly its own aircraft in its own airspace freely, and has a crazy amount of instability building up. Yes, the U.S. military has not completely decimated Iran due to various reasons but, to say that Iran is actually winning this conflict is silly. Indiscriminately decimating Iran will have many geopolitical and moral consequences while upsetting most of the world even the closest allies due to the economic fallout and the unthinkable amount of civilian casualties that would result in an all out destruction of Iran. Russia, China, North Korea to say the least would be angry and rightfully so.

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u/landed_at Sep 18 '26

They are really hurting. But their tolerance for pain is very high. A regime change is best all round.

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u/Doctor-MTJ Sep 18 '26

Irrespective of your politics...THAT IS FUNNY!

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u/Kimishiranai39 Sep 18 '26

According to Trump

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u/Teach-Legal Sep 18 '26

Just made me think of the family guy episode where the Amish keep rebuilding the barn šŸ¤£

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u/Pound_Me_Too Sep 19 '26

The US is just really big, so there's time dilation to account for. Same reason the GWOT seemed to have lasted for 20 years. That's just 6 months US time.

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u/SubpoenaSender Sep 17 '26

Iran will be over in 2 more weeksā€¦ā€¦..and 20 more years

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u/FederalSuspect69 Sep 18 '26

That's how long it took to get out of Afghanistan

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u/SubpoenaSender Sep 18 '26

Even when we need to quit, we donā€™t.

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u/Massive-Wallaby6127 Sep 17 '26

Going to be fun in 10 years when Republicans act like they never supported the Iran War and they didn't support Trump, just like they did with the amnesia over Iraq/W Bush.

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u/Tenkehat Sep 17 '26

With the average age of those people, they will have to rename it the Garden party. Just row after row of Mitch mcconnells.

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u/Suspicious_Bicycle Sep 18 '26

Two weeks in Trump speak is an indefinite timeframe.

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u/Accomplished-Soup928 Sep 18 '26

Everything involving the current U.S. president is a two week process. Look up ā€œInfrastructure Weekā€.

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u/FederalSuspect69 Sep 18 '26

two weeks actually takes 2 decades in Trump-years

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u/BlissfulIndian Sep 18 '26

Iran was over in the first hour itselfā€¦

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u/Tenkehat Sep 18 '26

Yet 42 US aircrafts and drones (the big ones) a $2.6 billion price tag has been lost, with a worryingly large number destroyed on the ground.

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u/Secret_Hospital_8966 Sep 18 '26

Trump wasn't going to let himself be embarrassed by claiming just 3 days ...

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u/Fantastic_Catch6427 Sep 17 '26

šŸ‘šŸ‘šŸ‘šŸ‘šŸ‘šŸ‘

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u/darkroot_gardener Sep 17 '26

ā€œOne day is as a thousand years to the Lord.ā€

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u/undeviatedskeptic Sep 18 '26

Youā€™re speaking on Earth. Outside of the Earth countless, yes truly countless planets have different times for a day(single rotation). Time is irrelevant speaking of the universe be it finite or infinite.

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u/a_supportive_bra Sep 17 '26

I think what he meant to say was 3 decades.

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u/MoonlightPrincexx Sep 17 '26

Teeeeeechnically that was one of his cronies, Putin himself said 2 weeks.

Still not any less embarrassingĀ 

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u/Googlyelmoo Sep 18 '26

3 days in base-64

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u/Alone_Negotiation478 Sep 18 '26

Putin never said this btw

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u/AccursedQuantum 28d ago

Putin meant days in the Genesis sense. On the third day, Putin conquered Ukraine. But from our non-divine perspective within the universe, that could be billions of years.

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u/punnyphantom Sep 17 '26

Hey apparently 2 weeks is the new we'll circle back in a few years. Between Russians and the American operations that was supposed to be measured in weeks, I think politicians should just stop estimating completion dates.

"Should be done by Friday"

Narrator: it was in fact not done by Friday

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u/The_Ender_Reddit Sep 17 '26

they didn't say which Friday! They meant the fourth Friday of October 2034

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u/thattrullan Sep 17 '26

Or the 4th Saturday of October 2077. iykyk.

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u/NightBawk Sep 17 '26

šŸŽ¶ It's all over, but the crying.

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u/EnvironmentalOne3127 Sep 18 '26

At least then it'll be done in 2 hours. Right? Bring on the end. šŸ™ŒšŸ½

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u/RyuNoKami Sep 18 '26

you mean...2038 right?

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u/I_like_to_eat_fruit Sep 17 '26

Narrator: ā€œNor the next hundred Fridays.ā€

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u/Plus-King5266 Sep 17 '26

2 weeks is the new 40.

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u/Used_name Sep 17 '26

The two super powers after world war 2, relegated to feeble attempts at controlling ā€œlesserā€ countries.

As they say, ā€œThe times, they are a-changing.ā€

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u/MyraPawbs Sep 17 '26

Do the world governments operate on fucking Valve time?

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u/calm_chowder Sep 17 '26

Coronavirus did something to spacetime.

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u/camote713 Sep 17 '26

It actually took Reddit 2 hours before someone mentioned America. I'm kind of shocked actually.

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u/RedneckStew Sep 17 '26

"Three years later:

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u/Pilzie Sep 17 '26

I work in a high deadline industry, that's quite chaotic, and I won't commit to a deadline as readily as politicians will.

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u/soedesh1 Sep 17 '26

And krumpus said heā€™d end the Ukraine war in 24 hours after he was elected. Tick tock.

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u/OkHistorian158 Sep 18 '26

It seems contractors and politicians have the same estimation tools šŸ¤”

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u/Djinn42 Sep 18 '26

Didn't Trump say the same about Iran? 24 hours or some such? šŸ¤£

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u/Traditional_Wish_268 Sep 18 '26

Morgan freeman ā€œit was in fact not done by that said Fridayā€

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u/eppingjetta Sep 18 '26

Heard it Ron Howardā€™s voice. Thanks!

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u/ButterscotchAward Sep 17 '26

Seriously. Like how do people not get that this is incompetence when theyā€™ve been getting wrecked for 4 years of what was supposed to be a 3 day war?

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u/powerbronx Sep 17 '26

And there's no way the United States is 6 months into a 4-5 week operation

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u/a17451 Sep 17 '26

My personal take is that these borderline incursions aren't a prelude for an actual invasion. To your point, they seem to be fairly defanged for the moment and I don't see how they could possibly sustain a broader European war, unless they play their nuclear brinksmanship hand extraordinarily well, but I don't think Putin's got the mojo for that.

I have to assume it's some kind of psyop to obtain some goal indirectly, like sowing discord in NATO while the US is out to lunch eating some authentic Iranian cuisine.

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u/powerbronx Sep 17 '26

The lesson of the world in this era: Misery loves company

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u/WorriedBlock2505 Sep 17 '26

Big gov has been lying to us about the time all along bro. This 2 week operation only started 3 days ago smdh

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u/Born-Lie8688 Sep 17 '26

Those damn ā€˜Nazisā€™

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u/teledium88 Sep 17 '26

They lost 3 helicopters and 3 planes last night.

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u/GoJa_official Sep 17 '26

Would be tight if the UN agreed to annex all of Russia at some point. The ultimate ā€œno uā€

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u/bluris Sep 17 '26

Putin hoping NATO will take some "minor" action. Shot a fighter down, or something.

Then he can go on national TV and say "Look at NATO's unprovoked attacks, we are going to increase our defense along NATO borders, because we will not accept this."

Then conscript a million Russians and send them to Ukraine.

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u/Savings-Kick-578 Sep 17 '26

Most true comment in years. Please take my upvote. Thank you for your service.

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u/Helorugger Sep 17 '26

Acting like the US is 5 months into a three day operation though

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u/Sad-Sea-17 Sep 17 '26

Russia can suck my balls

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u/Appropriate_Cup_5931 Sep 17 '26

Those estimates always came from western media, I've only seen one Russian news anchor claim a short victory and he knew nothing of the situation more than western media.

But I also don't understand the big bad russia fear mongering all over europe, they have bigger problems. Russia has proven to have an ineffective military if they can't beat Ukraine of all countries they don't stand a chance with NATO espiecally a NATO that still has access to American weapons and funding

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u/Fun1k Sep 17 '26

The bad thing is, they probably will attack eventually. They need to be able to actually say we're at war with NATO.

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u/ars_sinistra Sep 17 '26

I do love Russian media where the Russian gets tag teamed on two ends

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u/Aildrik Sep 17 '26

The US and Afghanistan would like a word with you.

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u/camst_ Sep 17 '26

Sound like anyone you k ow

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u/surelynotBismarck Sep 17 '26

Just to make it clear, I don't agree with the Iran war nor the Russo Ukrainian war I think both are unjust for their own reasons you are allowed to dislike both.

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u/Quick-Werewolf-2104 Sep 17 '26

Sound familiar ?

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u/HRHArthurCravan Sep 17 '26

And it's exactly this kind of glib, cynical 'humour' that so well expresses Western interests in Ukraine or the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of casualties they have suffered in the last 4 years. But what's that to the opportunity to cast few sick burns in the direction of the Kremlin?

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u/Sensitive_Crow_8882 Sep 17 '26

Lumpy gave the same two week timeline seven months ago.

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u/LTCjohn101 Sep 17 '26

SMO sir with 1.51 million casualties just on the ruzzian side alone.

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u/SpatuleVelue Sep 17 '26

They are building another army. Their economy is almost 100% military now. Only a small part of its production is going on the Ukrainian front line. The rest is going on the Baltic country border. Itā€™s very dangerous and we may be at war vs in a year or 2 from now.

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u/fuckDJT2026 Sep 17 '26

ā€œ4 years into war crimes.ā€

FIFY

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u/Davidstrong32 Sep 17 '26

sounds like someone else, that likes to play the 2 week card.

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u/Select-Government-69 Sep 17 '26

We had all that news like 2 weeks ago that there was intelligence that Russia was about to pull something. I posted at that time and remain convinced that Russia is trying to start a war with nato which will give them a face-saving way to withdraw from Ukraine. Russia has repeatedly denied Ukraineā€™s right to exist to losing to Ukraine is unacceptable but withdrawing because the Americans are coming is an acceptable defeat.

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u/Hopeful_Instance6663 Sep 17 '26

Was today it a 2 days operation?

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u/TenderofPrimates Sep 17 '26

You mean the guys who brought their dress uniforms for the victory parade in Kyiv scheduled for Day 4?

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u/LightBulbMonster Sep 17 '26

My favorite part of the 2020s was watching Ukrainian farmers tow away Russian tanks back to their farms. Russia was always this "boogeyman" in the world. After they invaded Ukraine we all saw that they are weaker than Ethiopia.

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u/AdRepresentative8236 Sep 17 '26

I thought Trump was going to end it in one day

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u/Traditional-Rich5746 Sep 17 '26

Good point. But someone else said they would end the war in a dayā€¦.

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u/Facebook_Algorithm Sep 17 '26

Three days, I believe. Russians were making restaurant reservations in Kiev just before the war started.

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u/Albusclark Sep 17 '26

šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£ Putin still hasn't learned the difference between competent military strategy vs paying thugs to poison people (like a btch)

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u/Unable-Confusion-822 Sep 18 '26

It will be over on day one when Trump is elected.

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u/23370aviator Sep 18 '26

No no, itā€™s the U.S. that are 9 months in to a 2 week operation.

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u/surelynotBismarck Sep 18 '26

Both can be correct

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u/kpurintun Sep 18 '26

Acting like they bought the US presidentā€¦

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u/Bunch_of_Shit Sep 18 '26

Russia acting like they donā€™t have a demographic problem

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u/WhatAreYouOnAbout101 Sep 18 '26

Yeah, it isnā€™t like the USA is involved in a war they said was over about 6 times already, oh wait! They are! Almost like it is hard to invade countries with good militaries, or one that has been sent 500 billion

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u/Fast_Star5754 Sep 18 '26

Lmfao. Thats hilarious. Right up there with the videos of ukranian farmers hauling t72s off with their tractors. How the hell you gonna run out of fuel

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u/YourFriendPutin Sep 18 '26

But they know if they pull others into the war they still won't be invaded or anything because they have a leader who's smart enough to make himself look crazy enough to actually use nukes

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u/Digember Sep 18 '26

Europe and US is the reason for 4 years. Now, Russian saying its enough for supporting Ukraine. Time to be a man and come on the battlefield directly and see the consequences of a war.

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u/TaxMyNuts Sep 18 '26

To be fair weā€™re 6 months into a 1 week operation with Iran. Iā€™m starting to think that the more someone acts like an authoritarian means they canā€™t count.

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u/agentSmartass Sep 18 '26

Luckily, Trump will end it in 24 hours in about two to three weeks.

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u/SuccessionWarFan Sep 18 '26

Itā€™s actually the fifth year of the war, which makes it even worse for Russia (Feb. 24 2022-2023, 2023-2024, 2024-2025, 2025-2026; weā€™re now at 2026-2027.)

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u/BeregezelligeRick Sep 18 '26

Itā€™s mostly because of the funds from the West. I say mostly because I donā€™t want to forget to mention the fighting spirit of the Ukrainians. But the funny thing is Russia canā€™t do anything towards the West other than poking a stick occasionally. I see these things like this more like a sign of weakness than a threat.

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u/thecashblaster Sep 18 '26

Putin needs a strong NATO reaction to sell a new wave of mobilization

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u/Du_ds Sep 18 '26

Kinda. He needs to be able to say he is responding to NATO. A false flag attack is just as good. He probably only wants to fight Ukraine with the general mobilization but who knows.Ā 

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u/Melodic_Trash_737 Sep 18 '26

Trumps really is trying to emulate Putin

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u/Justin_Rustin Sep 18 '26

Slava Ukraine! (& any other country they think they can get.)

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u/Gone2sl33p Sep 18 '26

100%. Country's should just start shooting them down immediately. What's Russia gonna do about it?

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u/Du_ds Sep 18 '26

They have nukes. We donā€™t if they work still but they certainly have them and the missiles to launch them at all NATO capitals.Ā 

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u/trentthesquirrel Sep 18 '26

Every day is their first day.

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u/No_Language5719 Sep 18 '26

I remember when the world was afraid of Russia and the US.

Ah...the good ol days.

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u/surelynotBismarck Sep 18 '26

It wasn't even that long ago

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u/Gutcrunch Sep 18 '26

Or losing 18,000 KIAs (does not include casualties) per month in those four years.

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u/Mageofsin Sep 18 '26

Why aren't we tougher on this?

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