• JucheBot1988@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    To be fair, this is absolutely the sort of thing Americ*n generals would do to their own populace. (The US military, after all, conducted nuclear tests near major civilian areas in order to “study” the effects of radiation on the populace – this in peacetime). So it makes sense that Reddit would lap up the “Russia blew the dam” story.

    The Russian military, on the other hand, has actually won wars since 1945, so that even if one has a low moral opinion of their leaders, one should at least respect their competence enough to question why they’d ever do something so ridiculously and colossally stupid.

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      1 year ago

      At this point I honestly struggle to care about “whodunnit”. Southern Ukraine is becoming a desert, western Ukraine is covered in radioactive dust. This was once one of, if not the most developed, prosperous and advanced republics in the USSR. And now? Now the world is ablaze and those who can do something about it don’t want to, because their line goes up. And those who do want something done - cannot do anything. At this point it seems to be too late. If not for the world at large, then for the region at least.