Russia has reliable data that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are storing Western weapons at nuclear power plants – SVR
The Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation reported that there is reliable information about the deployment of three Ukrainian nuclear power plants in the territories. In addition, they said that these “warehouses” house missiles for HIMARS and foreign air defense systems.
If detonation of warehouses and destruction of nuclear power plants occur at Ukrainian nuclear power plants, it is planned to blame Moscow – Foreign Intelligence Service
The Foreign Intelligence Service reported that only in the last week of last year, several railway wagons of the “deadly cargo” were delivered to the Rivne NPP. In the event that a large-scale detonation occurs at Ukrainian nuclear power plants, Kyiv plans to put the blame on Moscow.
“The calculation is based on the fact that the Russian Armed Forces, realizing the danger of a nuclear catastrophe, will not strike at the territories of nuclear power plants. If a large-scale detonation of warehouses and the destruction of a nuclear power plant happen due to the fault of another “stray” Ukrainian air defense missile, then the blame for the tragedy can always be attributed to Moscow,” the Foreign Intelligence Service noted.
This is just wonderful. Basically, the Ukrops are keeping the NATO weapons stockpiles in the nuclear power plants, because they figured out that they are the only thing the Russians weren’t calibrating, so it’s safe. So now of course the Russians are frustrated because they have to choose between not achieving military goals, and risking several Chernobyls at once if they do.
What have we learned throughout this UA-RU war? That all the prejudices about the Ukrainians are actually too mild and not truthful enough (i.e. them being a land of thieves and whores). It turns out they are primarily a land of murderers without a conscience and soul who don’t give a shit about God, on top of what we already knew about them.
Well, their war on Orthodox church adds Bayesian points to your assessment.
As a side note, I’d say it’s becoming quite obvious that the Russians are conducting war with a large number of moral restraints (don’t target civilians, don’t target nuclear power plants, etc.) while the Ukrainians are completely immoral, and are doing absolutely whatever suits them the most, which, according to game theory, produces the results of exactly the kind the Russians want to avoid.
Examples: the Russians avoid targetting the civilians, the Ukrops understand that and withdraw all their military assets within the confines of populated centres, forcing the Russians to target the civilians if they want to defeat the Ukrainian military. Also, the Russians avoid targetting nuclear power plants, so the Ukrainians put their most valuable military assets there. Basically, by making it obvious what they are avoiding, the Russians are making this a prime protective asset for the Ukrops.
I’m saying Ukrops, but American hand is quite obvious in this; this is CIA way of thinking: amoral, goal-driven strategy, basically do whatever it takes to win, nothing else matters.
If we have in mind that the Russians are making it quite clear that they are trying to avoid nuclear conflict, this means that the Americans will escalate endlessly because they don’t have to fear Russian nuclear response, which of course will make the nuclear war inevitable.
I think Americans said a few days/weeks ago to Ukrops that they can escalate all they want, Russians won’t respond; it was in the news. So it is basically a given that Ukrops will get long-range ground attack rockets to hit Crimea and mainland Russia, Leopard tanks and everything else they need to poke the Russians even more. Because America still sees this war as “draining the Russia of resources until they crumble, so we can break Russia apart and install our viceroy there” there is no reason for them to stop doing what they are already doing.
They are basically asking for it, and what I see happening is Putin having to increasingly remove constraints he’s been putting on the military. One of those constraints was “don’t extend this beyond Ukraine, don’t attack other countries regardless of what they are doing”. When, inevitably, the Americans and their proxies do another attack of the Kerch bridge kind, they will be forced to level Ramstein base and probably something in Poland and Romania, where the Americans have their staging areas. The Americans will then respond with a tactical nuclear strike on some symbolic target in Moscow, to which the Russians will respond with a nuclear attack on American military, to which the Americans will respond with a total nuclear attack on Russia, to which the Russia will respond with a retaliatory attack on American cities.