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Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces by mcv on Friday February 25, 2022 @04:17AM (#30465245)
The US and Russia did promise to defend Ukraine against nuclear powers in exchange for Ukraine giving their nuclear weapons to Russia in 1994. Now Russia, a nuclear power and one of the signatories to that treaty, broke it by attacking Ukraine, and the US broke it by not defending Ukraine from that aggression, because Russia is waving its nukes around as a threat.

The big lesson that the US and Russia are teaching Ukraine here is that they should have never given up their nuclear weapon. This whole event is terrible for the prevention of nuclear proliferation.

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Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces by Terry_Roll on Friday February 25, 2022 @04:32AM (#30465349)
Its all a bit of a joke to be honest. There are 100k Russian troops, thats a population of some UK towns like Harlow, Romford, Royal Leamington Spa, or Gillingham trying to secure a landmass 2.5 times the size of the UK!

Its a joke, because once the Ukrainian population is psychologically motivated into guerrilla warfare against the Russians, it would be over in a day or two.

This invasion with media complicity, is just project fear or govt's around the world enjoying their population's desire to be governed. Russia is doing each and every govt around the world a favour by reinforcing the govt form of control instead of self determination.

Now if Russia went in with 1million troops, then it would be something to worry about, but this is all just psychological reinforcement of hierarchical control systems on populations.

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Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces by SpelingBeeChamp on Friday February 25, 2022 @07:07AM (#30466397)
>Russia is waving its nukes around as a threat.

Really? Has Putin actually said anything about nuclear weapons in the context of this war?

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Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces by mcv on Friday February 25, 2022 @07:17AM (#30466455)
Not explicitly, but that's how many people interpret his threats to NATO countries if they help defend Ukraine.
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