• 0Empty0@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This is a possibility that has been talked about at length for a while now.

    It’s possible, however an attack like this would be considered a nuclear attack, which would bring NATO into this war. Consequently, if Russian allies like Belarus blow up the plant instead this would also trigger a response from NATO.

    Obviously we should be concerned, but I’m not sure how likely an attack like this would actually happen.

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    1 year ago

    could

    In spite of all my sympathies for the cause, I am adamant that all articles based on “it’s possible” mentality and nothing more, should be banned and people writing them sent to some war.

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      The concern is a good bit higher than “possible” since they’ve just recently inflicted a large scale natural disaster to slow the Ukrainian offensive to retake their territory.

      The Kakhovka dam was blown up by Russians because Ukraine doesn’t own the kinds of weapons that could destroy it from a distance even if they for some reason wanted to devastate their own land (they don’t).

      Russia clearing out the plant staff and inspectors is highly suspect. If there was a major radiation leak, that too would have to come from manually placed demolitions…which is what they’ve been seeing.

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        I don’t see it that way. Flood you can predict to some good degree - especially if the water will spill on enemy’s territory.

        Powerplant? When the wind will blow, the radiation will go. It may as well blow in the wrong direction and devastate Russia. Weather is too chaotic an entity, especially these days, to have a battleplan founded on it.

        There’s of course “dem Russians crazy, yo” argument, but to this there’s a contra-argument. For every politician actor, or a corrupted military guy there are tenths of VERY rich people living there, who would prefer their skyscraper dachas free of nuclear pollution, thank you very much.

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    1 year ago

    Obviously it’s Ukraine that’s going to bomb it and blame Russia **

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      It is amazing to me that people even consider this a possibility. You’d have to be an idiot to think anyone but Russia would blow up a nuclear reactor in Ukraine. The same for the dam - Russia blames Ukraine, which is an argument no one outside of the Russian media bubble would even consider.

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        1 year ago

        The Russo phobia in the west throws common sense out of the brains.