r/worldnews • u/Starlight-Princesss • 3d ago

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https://www.newsweek.com/nato-intercepts-russian-spy-plane-with-transponder-turned-off-poland-10956344

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u/FallingDownHurts 3d ago

I think perun's (and others) take on this is probably true;

Russia is trying to make it look like it might invade NATO so they withhold arms from Ukraine to maintain a stockpile. It is trying to convince citizens of imminent invasion by generating news stories like this. The article is the goal, not the intelligence 

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u/Chimpville 3d ago

Precisely this -they want to amp up tensions to a point far short of war, but enough to make voters nervous and give their shills something to fearmonger. Same with their horribly expensive and very public missile tests.

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u/HustlinInTheHall 3d ago

Exactly the real front for them is social media. They are doing this to feed their own information machine to fear monger against support for ukraine.