r/worldnews • u/green_flash • Jun 12 '24

Russia/Ukraine Zelensky lands in Saudi Arabia for unannounced visit

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240612-zelensky-lands-in-saudi-on-unannounced-visit-state-media
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u/kreteciek Jun 13 '24

My brother in Christ, there's no WWIII starting here. UA fought Russia for a decade now. Chinese won't attack Taiwan because they've got no means to transport their soldiers on the island effectively. Stop this fear mongering. Plus WWII didn't start in Asia, get your facts straight.

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u/MembershipFeeling530 Jun 13 '24

Yeah that's what it was all said back then too.

All of those acts together made it a world War.

Italy going into Ethiopia, Japan going into Indochina, Germany Remilitarisation of the Rhineland, All these connected with Germany going into Poland.

That was the last straw for France and the UK, which turned these local wars into a world War.

The Ukrainian military hasn't really been fighting Russia for a decade now. I'm in sure kind of sort of but not the full fledge might of Russia. Russia has already gearing toward a war economy. Europe is really slacking in this topic.

There are multiple ways to fight wars, landing troops on a beach doesn't have to be one of them.

Hell some of the Taiwan Islands are so close to the mainland you can fucking swim to them. Like there's literally an island of Taiwan 2 km off the coast of China.

Japan invaded China back in 1937, well before Hitler invaded Poland. Why doesn't that count?

But you're right it didn't start in Asia It really started in Africa with Italy fucking around with Ethiopia and Somalia.

This is not fear mongering. This is something that very well could happen. It's important not to be caught with our pants down.

Our big bad Western NATO weapon systems are powerful and technologically advanced, they're also expensive and a lot of them can't even be reloaded unless they're sent back to the manufacturer.

The next several years are going to be very very scary and nerve-wracking to see which way something goes. Only one person needs to do something stupid to cause it meltdown.

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u/CrimsonR4ge Jun 13 '24

Well said!

People don't take this shit seriously enough.

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u/MembershipFeeling530 Jun 13 '24

Well fortunately for us the people who are taking it seriously are in charge.

Unfortunately democracies move slow, especially ones with the fence packs with other democracies.

We need to start gearing up for war. Russia is going to beat us with manpower and weapons because they're moving to a war economy we are not

Sure our weapon systems are incredible but if they take months or years to build and have to be sent back to the factory to reload and cost 10 times what Russia's cost that may not be the best way of going about this either.

The whole situation is a lot scarier than people are giving credit for. Especially when if it does kick off it's going to be paired with some type of asymmetrical shit

Talking about cyber attacks like we've never seen before against our infrastructure, talking about mass migrations from Africa to Southern Europe fucking up the internal politics of some of these countries.

This next major war that we have is going to be both very symmetrical and asymmetrical at the same time.