Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces
by IAmGraydon on Thursday February 24, 2022 @06:55PM
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This is likely the exact reason Putin took Chernobyl as one of the first targets. He knew that it would give Ukraine an improvised WMD and drastically change the balance of power. They could have rigged the entire thing with high explosives and wired it to a dead man’s switch.
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Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces
by vkou on Thursday February 24, 2022 @08:48PM
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Life isn't a comic book, nuclear power plants don't explode like bombs do. The only thing that would accomplish is poisoning Ukrainians.
The reason Chernobyl was taken is obvious if you look at a map. It's on the border, and there's a massive offensive across the entirety of it.
It's not a target, it's simply on the way to a target.