Footage of a Russian drone strike on the Chernobyl nuclear power plant that took place last night
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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?
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That's the weird part.
I wouldn't imagine Ukraine would ever do something so reckless.
But Russia has nothing to gain, peace talks are about to start with heavily favoring Russia
So all I can assume is it could be a third party that doesnt want the peace talk to happen at all, and did this to further destabalize the situation?
I dunno it's just super fucking weird overall. Why chernybol of all things, no one, not even putin, would want that thing to start popping off... right?
That attack for all intents and purposes should be viewed by the world as no different than a failed nuclear launch, really.
And everyone is too pussy to do anything about it.
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That's a really interesting point I hadn't considered. It could certainly be some extremist third-party, or even some unknown faction of one of the sides, trying to stir things up. Hmm, the British MI6 gets up to some pretty crazy antics, and they would be fairly far away from the fallout?
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I mean, every strike on a non-military target is propaganda for Ukraine, and a wasted munition. They do it anyway, because they figure hurt Ukrainians = victory. And maybe for their own career advancement it is.
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Oh shit, they actually made a hole. The still picture looked like just a scorch mark.
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The comment was removed for "endorsing violence", when, in reality, it was talking about frontal lobotomies. Not even in a joking manner. Just literally how a frontal lobotomy is the OG brain jammer.
