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Causing a nuclear incident in a place you want to occupy is profoundly stupid.
by bastawhiz 5y ago
Causing a nuclear incident in a place you want to occupy is profoundly stupid.
- nomel 5y agoYou're making a pretty serious assumption that they're doing something haphazard rather than something calculated and planned. What's your reason for first assuming incompetence?
- joshschreuder 5y agoDoes Hanlon’s Razor apply in times of war?
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- bastawhiz 5y agoThe last time I checked, being Russian doesn't make you immune to radiation. Controlling land is pretty pointless if you've poisoned it into uninhabitability for the next few generations or so.
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- nomel 5y agoWhat makes you think that what they're doing has significant risk of making the land uninhabitable? All we know is that there's a fire at the perimeter. That's it. It could be that what they're doing has little risk. From reading the twitter threads, seen elsewhere in this comment section, that seems to be the case. Not surprisingly, nuclear power plants are made pretty well. I don't think there's any evidence that they're acting irrationally, from within their context. Making the land uninhabitable would be irrational, for everything we know of their context.
- lawn 5y agoTheir whole invasion has screamed incompetence.
- nomel 5y agoCould you give some examples of what you see as incompetent?
- veganhouseDJ 5y agoIMO we want to believe that the second best military on the planet is not competent because it is more comforting than the idea that the second best military actually planned out this assault on a sovereign country.