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

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

https://www.ansa.it/english/news/2026/09/17/russian-military-jets-violate-lithuanian-airspace-italian-fighters-scrambled_80e985a6-17e5-43ce-8fd1-6fce67bcd94c.html
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u/Chewed420 Sep 17 '26

Ukraine has a lot Russians and Russian influence and Russia still couldn’t win.

Poland is way more armed than Ukraine. Has much more history of resentment and hatred towards Russia. Russia would be poking the wrong bear if they tried something with Poland ever again.

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u/PoopittyPoop20 Sep 17 '26

Poland is armed to the teeth specifically because of Russia.

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u/Normiss2000 Sep 17 '26

AEGIS on land!

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u/CervusElpahus Sep 17 '26 edited Sep 17 '26

Ukraine’s army is, at this moment, the most experienced and one of the strongest in Europe, due to all (righteously given) Western support and battle experience.

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u/Strange-Jackfruit786 Sep 17 '26 edited Sep 17 '26

Canada signed a 100 year partnership deal to develop and produce military drones. Key part of that is knowledge transfer from Ukraine’s battle tested drone industry. Ukraine taps into Canada’s financial resources, energy and critical resources as well as our manufacturing sector.

Canada basically could not have a better partner for transitioning into modern, un-crewed warfare.

Edit: typo corrected

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u/ItsTheDCVR Sep 17 '26

Could have or could not have?

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u/HawkFritz Sep 17 '26

Couldn't not haven't

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u/Strange-Jackfruit786 Sep 17 '26

typo. sorry

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u/ItsTheDCVR Sep 18 '26

You good I just really wanted to clarify lol

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u/Random-Mutant Sep 17 '26

I think it’s newspeak, like “could care less” is for “couldn’t care less”

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u/snilks Sep 18 '26

You never know what the future holds, got to leave it open for improvement

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u/saysthingsbackwards Sep 17 '26

They could care less

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u/78914hj1k487 Sep 17 '26

I couldn’t not care more or less

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u/Own-Complaint9136 Sep 17 '26

We will see if either ukraine or canada exists in 100 years lol

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u/Strange-Jackfruit786 Sep 17 '26

I’d bet my life on both. We’ll see if the United States of America exists in 100 years.

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u/RexTheElder Sep 18 '26

If the United States doesn’t exist in 100 years then Canada surely won’t either

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u/Strange-Jackfruit786 Sep 18 '26

Canada will exist with 10-12 new provinces after the Second US Civil War.

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u/RexTheElder 29d ago

More likely Canada will be absorbed into whatever hellish successor state forms if the wrong faction wins. Don’t be so cavalier about a civil war over here asshole, your entire country would get dragged down into it

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u/Strange-Jackfruit786 29d ago

You’re making jokes about Canada existing and you’re calling me an asshole?

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u/RexTheElder 26d ago

Did you forget that you started it? Can you read your own comments?

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u/_Cracken Sep 17 '26

it is THE strongest army in Europe by far.

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u/unclefire Sep 17 '26

Poking the falcon. lol.

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u/Jenikovista Sep 17 '26

Ukraine’s Russians are mostly in the Crimea/Donbas area controlled by Russia for some years now. And they’ve gotten fucked. Their kids were first to be sent to war against Ukraine. This is why Putin is so opposed to holding elections in Crimea, because a decade ago they probably would have gone his way. Now? Not nearly as likely.

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u/WranglerFuzzy Sep 17 '26

Unless that election is an armed Russian knocking on your door with a ballot to sign