• yata@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      That is the MO of Russia and Putin in particular. He already did that with the dam and Nordstream. And of course it was also how Putin started the second Chechen war with the 1999 apartment bombings in Moscow.

    • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      One interesting theory I read is that the deliberate destruction of the plant would be a way to escalate close enough to the use of nuclear weapons to intimidate Ukraine and its supporters while retaining enough ambiguity that parties disinclined to retaliate could refuse to do so based on the pretense that Russia was not responsible.