Footage of a Russian drone strike on the Chernobyl nuclear power plant that took place last night
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It hit the fucking sarcophagus
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Chernobl is relevant in the news again is not something I had on my bingo card.
Fuck this shit.
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Why the hell would Russia even do that?
What's the actual reasoning behind that? Doesn't this fuck them over too?
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Scorched Earth? Hoping that the drone wouldn't be noticed and they could say that Chernobyl is too dangerous to be left to Ukraine? Boredom? Pure psychopathy? To cover up a nuclear strike? Someone meant to order Chipotle and signals got crossed? Roll a d6 and see where it lands.
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what in the flying fuck
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We should invent a brain jammer
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Why aren't some high ranking officials from the Russian army assassinating this motherfucker?
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An ice pick up the nose does the trick.
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..... Fuck!
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To cover up a nuclear strike?
That won't work, because it's possible to very precisely determine the origin of radioactive fallout from analysing the types and quantities of different isotopes in it. Also (above ground/water) nuclear weapon detonations do have very distinct optical signatures that can be detected by very simple instruments mounted on satellites, while underground nuclear detonations do have distinct seismic signatures that can be detected and located with the same equipment used to monitor earthquakes. For underwater detonations, I'm sure there are acoustic signatures that will do the same.
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They like looking out if windows.
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They now can do whatever they want:
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The kremlin playbook: test how much they can get away with. Test what's happening when they myrder someone in the EU, cutting cables, ...
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It was in 2022, when Russian military laid siege to the plant and quite some contaminated soil got remobilized by heavy equipment driving around.
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You missed the obvious one: Sending a message that they are willing to escalate.
The strike hit the "sarcophage" that was built to contain the ruins of the reactor that blew up in 1986.
The message is "we will risk large scale nuclear contamination". Remember how a few months back they used an ICBM w.o. a nuclear warhead for some missile strike, they could have done with a regular missile?
Combine the two messages: "We have the missiles"+"we will risk large scale nuclear contamination" -> "We are serious about the nuke business. Don't get in our way."
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nuclear was claimed as a nato red line when this war first started. They are testing nato to see if it is really a redline.
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Literally they're trying to conduct nuclear warfare without using a nuke.
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Can also not discount complete incompetence.
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I had similar questions. How would they benefit from this, and why would they do it a day after the US verbally agreed to most of their demands? Is this a false-flag operation?
