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The nuclear power plant is a Russian talking point. Ukraine is not into nuclear terrorism, not even as quid pro quo. Setting the power plant up as a goal in pe
by derdi 2y ago
The nuclear power plant is a Russian talking point. Ukraine is not into nuclear terrorism, not even as quid pro quo.
Setting the power plant up as a goal in people's minds just helps Russian propaganda. Ukraine doesn't go there = Ukraine didn't reach its goal = heroic Russian victory. Let's not proactively fall into this trap.
- jncfhnb 2y agoThat doesn’t seem obvious to me at all. Seizing the plant and rigging it to explode as a quid pro quo demand for Russia to leave the Zaporizhia NPP seems perfectly reasonable. It’s not like “nuclear terrorism” is morally superior to threatening nuclear annihilation via MAD Its also one of the few exit plans for a raid deep into enemy territory with no logistics.
- jajag 2y ago> Seizing the plant and rigging it to explode as a quid pro quo demand for Russia to leave the Zaporizhia NPP I honestly don't see that happening. There's a diplomatic game being played around Russia's nuclear threats, I don't see Ukraine being so dumb as to undermine that.
- bdjsiqoocwk 2y agoThe west is supporting Ukraine. The west wouldn't like if Ukraine starts engaging in nuclear terrorism because that would remove legitimacy from West's support in the eyes of the rest of the world. So, regardless of whether Ukraine would like to do some terrorism, the west is asking it: don't.
- derdi 2y agoThis would not be a good bluff from Ukraine, even if it considered nuclear terrorism an option. The prevailing winds blow from the east, as we know all too well since Chornobyl. Blowing up the plant just east of the border would mostly terrorize Ukraine itself.
- protomolecule 2y ago[flagged]
- derdi 2y ago(Well done for quoting the word "nuclear" but choosing to ignore it.) To be clear, the "two African countries" are both military dictatorships that depend on Russian military support. Which is the reason Ukraine might be involved in a proxy war there. Not out of love for al-Quaeda but because they have a common enemy.
- protomolecule 2y ago[flagged]
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- 0dayz 2y agoYou're flailing your arms around. They are first of supporting the rebels which are also working with the al qaeda group. Secondly we still don't know how the truck explosion was pulled off if it was Ukrainian driver or Russian. Lastly even if you consider Ukraine has used an attack ONCE like terrorist do, then I wonder two things: what about Russia then and how do you even remotely draw parallell between nuclear terrorism and use "tactics" used by terrorists?
- protomolecule 2y ago[flagged]