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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.
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.
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.
