this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2025
366 points (96.0% liked)

World News

39605 readers
1569 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News !news@lemmy.world

Politics !politics@lemmy.world

World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Summary

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned Europe that it cannot withstand Russia without Ukraine’s military, calling Ukraine’s victory vital to stopping Kremlin expansion.

Speaking to Polish media, Zelenskyy stressed that Russia’s larger, more brutal army would target other European nations if Ukraine falls.

He criticized Western allies for underestimating Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ambitions, urging them to strengthen Ukraine’s defenses.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] deadcream@sopuli.xyz -5 points 1 day ago (14 children)

How many NATO soldiers have experience fighting a full-scale war on their territory against an enemy with similar technological and production capabilities?

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 14 points 21 hours ago (5 children)

How many NATO soldiers have experience fighting a full-scale war on their territory against an enemy with similar technological and production capabilities?

I'm not sure, but since this is the Russian-Ukraine conflict we're talking about, we don't have to worry about one showing up. Russia is barely a near peer to Ukraine, they wouldn't stand a snowballs chance in hell against more than one country at a time without their nukes, let alone NATO as a whole.

Nukes are literally the only thing that lets Russia pretend they're still a superpower and not a failed state. But as we can see in Ukraine, they can't even beat a former client state and has to resort to bringing our cold war era equipment, so double lol at "similar capabilities"

[–] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Russia is more than capable of butchering european civilian populations, that is the main concern.

everyone knows they'd get their shit rocked in conventional war, its the mass murder of civilians, bombardment of cities, and retaliatiory table flipping ragequit nuclear attacks that everyone is afraid of.

[–] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 hours ago

Realtalk, Ukraine and russia are the only two big nations with experience in drone warfare, which is the current patch. Everyone else hasn't really updated yet.

load more comments (3 replies)
load more comments (11 replies)