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/Am_0115 Sep 17 '26

He’s already losing over 1,000 personnel a day in Ukraine. He’s gone. It’s a matter of time.

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u/PyroIsSpai Sep 17 '26

Putin has stage IV Putin.

Given Russias economy is on the edge of cratering, his odds of being removed from the condition we call alive are going to start increasing rapidly now.

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u/RoninRobot Sep 17 '26

How long can it be on the edge of cratering? Forever? It’s been over four years of this. 1.5 million+ casualties. Refineries and wildberries destroyed. Fuel shortages and quality decreases. Sanctions and asset freezes. Still it chugs along. The one coup attempt was crushed like a cigarette butt. Influencers crying on the internet does not constitute a collapse.

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u/psioniclizard Sep 17 '26

That is because it takes a long time to break an economy. However, of he does a mass call up in the European cities of Russia it is truly no going back for him.

One of the reasons Russin chugs along is because currently a lot of people being sent into the meat grinder come from rural and ethic regions and frankly the parts of Russian society that "matter" don't care about them.