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Same news in Spain: US tells Spain that is opened to clean site of 1996 nuclear accident. LOL IMAO feels like there is an increase in the perceived danger of a

Same news in Spain: US tells Spain that is opened to clean site of 1996 nuclear accident. LOL IMAO feels like there is an increase in the perceived danger of a nuclear black swan (shaped as unnamed rogue agents using uncontrolled radioactive waste to make dirty bombs). The Putin war is clearly escalating. We are now at the massive launching of phosphorus bombs part so a "nuclear but not so much and unsigned" event is unfortunately closer than ever. Probably is in the mutual benefit for both parts to take control over this stuff and put it in a safer place.

bigbacaloa 3y ago
Spain has been asking for this for decades
- pvaldes 3y ago
  Yes. It seems that Spain and US signed an agreement about that in 2015 that then never started. The more interesting part here is why now?
  - bigbacaloa 3y ago
    Glib answer is that Trump came and went.
  - dragonwriter 3y ago
    In general, intra-alliance relations within NATO are getting more attention recently from the US, not just than during the low point of the Trump Administration, but really than probably any point since the fall of the Soviet Union (or maybe just after, with the Balkan crises). That’s not just from the US side; many non-US NATO members (Spain included) are suddenly making much bigger strides toward meeting defense expenditure targets than they had been previously. Ukraine – and the wave of interference in domestic affairs of NATO members Russia has engaged in particularly since the beginning of the 2014 conflict with Ukraine – are a big factor here.
boc 3y ago
Russia using a "dirty bomb" on Ukraine makes zero sense. The whole strategic interest in occupying and conquering Ukraine was to access their resources. If you irradiate everything it's gone for generations on all sides.
- pvaldes 3y ago
  All about Russia makes zero sense currently, and is increasingly becoming obvious that after the first plan (to kill the president none less) failed, they pivoted around committing genocide
- iudqnolq 3y ago
  Russia using a dirty bomb is unlikely, but you're wrong about the reason why. Ukraine doesn't have anything economically worth what Russia is doing. At this point they're fighting because they don't want to have lost. A dirty bomb is unlikely because it could lead to escalations by Europe and the USA.
- dragonwriter 3y ago
  > Russia using a “dirty bomb” on Ukraine makes zero sense. The whole strategic interest in occupying and conquering Ukraine was to access their resources. If you irradiate everything it’s gone for generations on all sides. A dirty bomb has limited area of significant effect, using one in the part of Ukraine outside of the corridor of eastern and southern Ukraine Russia wishes to occupy might seem to make sense to Russian decision-makers.

bigbacaloa 3y ago

Spain has been asking for this for decades

pvaldes 3y ago
Yes. It seems that Spain and US signed an agreement about that in 2015 that then never started. The more interesting part here is why now?
- bigbacaloa 3y ago
  Glib answer is that Trump came and went.
- dragonwriter 3y ago
  In general, intra-alliance relations within NATO are getting more attention recently from the US, not just than during the low point of the Trump Administration, but really than probably any point since the fall of the Soviet Union (or maybe just after, with the Balkan crises). That’s not just from the US side; many non-US NATO members (Spain included) are suddenly making much bigger strides toward meeting defense expenditure targets than they had been previously. Ukraine – and the wave of interference in domestic affairs of NATO members Russia has engaged in particularly since the beginning of the 2014 conflict with Ukraine – are a big factor here.

boc 3y ago

Russia using a "dirty bomb" on Ukraine makes zero sense. The whole strategic interest in occupying and conquering Ukraine was to access their resources. If you irradiate everything it's gone for generations on all sides.

pvaldes 3y ago
All about Russia makes zero sense currently, and is increasingly becoming obvious that after the first plan (to kill the president none less) failed, they pivoted around committing genocide
iudqnolq 3y ago
Russia using a dirty bomb is unlikely, but you're wrong about the reason why. Ukraine doesn't have anything economically worth what Russia is doing. At this point they're fighting because they don't want to have lost. A dirty bomb is unlikely because it could lead to escalations by Europe and the USA.
dragonwriter 3y ago
> Russia using a “dirty bomb” on Ukraine makes zero sense. The whole strategic interest in occupying and conquering Ukraine was to access their resources. If you irradiate everything it’s gone for generations on all sides. A dirty bomb has limited area of significant effect, using one in the part of Ukraine outside of the corridor of eastern and southern Ukraine Russia wishes to occupy might seem to make sense to Russian decision-makers.