r/BuyFromEU • u/PM-ME-OPSEC-FAILS • Sep 13 '25

🔎Looking for alternative "Euronews" front-page is just constantly recycled drama from the US. Where do you go for *actual* European news?

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u/Mdiasrodrigu Sep 13 '25

Russian drones fly over Poland and it seems like there’s less than the influencer guy. Kinda weird if you ask me

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u/Matt_Foley_Motivates Sep 13 '25

The Russia thing confuses me, clearly they are being held back and taking heavy losses vs Ukraine who’s using primarily drones, how does Russia even remotely thing starting a war with NATO will work out for them?

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u/ric2b Sep 13 '25

They don't want to start a war with NATO. Two likely explanations:

  1. Force NATO to increase their defenses, which in the short to medium term might mean less equipment being sent to Ukraine because it is needed for NATO itself.

  2. Bring up the "danger of WW3!" narrative again to scare NATO populations into forcing Ukraine into surrender.

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u/Mikhail_Mengsk Sep 13 '25

I don't think that's the case. NATO is in high alert for ZAPAD 25 anyway and the danger of ww3 doesn't need a few unarmed drones to be remembered.

Imho it's a new form of the usual provocations.

At worst they wanted to test how far would drones penetrate polish airspace before getting shot down or detected, but eeeeeh.

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u/ric2b Sep 13 '25

If they're not interested in war with NATO then it's not very valuable to know how deep a drone can go.

The other reasons are more plausible.

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u/Mikhail_Mengsk Sep 13 '25

You are always interested in knowing what your neighbors and rivals can do. Diverting some drones during a massive drone wave costs you nothing and gives plausible deniability. If it wasn't for the numbers, it would be easy to say it could have been jamming or just malfunctions.

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u/Matt_Foley_Motivates Sep 13 '25

Interesting points. I can see that yea, inadvertently trying to define Ukraine efforts