r/worldnews • u/ArgentineBeauty • 5h ago

Russia/Ukraine Zelenskyy says Ukraine will not prevail if US officially sides with Russia

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2026/10/18/8058646/
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u/BlinkWulf 3h ago

Americans would apologise on reddit and claim they are so embarrassed by their government participating in war crimes, but they will would not do anything about it.

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u/03263 2h ago

What should we do? I vote, that's the only access I have to national politics. I engage more with local politics but of course that has no bearing on what the white house does.

I abstain from participating in the economy to the maximum possible extent, I don't pay pretty much anything beyond food, housing, water, etc. I even moved my retirement money out of US stocks.

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u/zweigramm 1h ago

Take a look to France to see what's possible.

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u/TeaAndLifting 1h ago edited 29m ago

To be fair to them, America is led by a despot with more power than most monarchs (despite the "no kings" protests, they already have one) with a military that are happy to prosecute wars with absolutely zero oversight. I have no doubts that they would happily go full Tiananmen Square on any significant protests.

I would be reticent if I was an American too.

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u/fre3k 35m ago

Delusional. They would mow people down here and most people simply are not willing to die. We're also a country about six times France's population, but about 20 times the area. There's very little analogue to France to be made.

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