Ukraine’s President Zelensky has once again been warning the public and the West that Russia is planning to stage some kind of disastrous nuclear fallout event centered on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Europe’s largest. The claims from Ukrainian top officials have been persisting for weeks at this point, but have grown louder in the last several days, as Americans are busy with July 4th festivities.
“There is a serious threat because Russia is technically ready to provoke a local explosion at the station, which could lead to a [radiation] release,” Zelensky claimed days ago at a joint news conference in Kyiv. Ukrainian intelligence is at the same time this week saying Russia’s military is reducing its presence there and has told staff to relocate to Crimea.
The Guardian on Saturday cited Ukraine’s intelligence arm, the GUR, to say that “several representatives of Russia’s state nuclear energy agency, Rosatom, have already left” and further that “Ukrainian employees who stayed at the plant and signed contracts with Rosatom had been told to evacuate by Monday, preferably to Crimea, it said.”
All of this is of course impossible to confirm, and such allegations centered on Zaporizhzhia have been consistent throughout much of the war, at times coming from both sides.
“On Thursday Ukraine conducted nuclear disaster response drills in the vicinity of the power station, regional officials said,” The Guardian wrote further.
The Kremlin has expressly denied the Ukrainian allegations:
Russia’s UN ambassador, Vassily Nebenzia, replied saying that he had written to the UN security council and secretary general, António Guterres, to state: “We do not intend to blow up this NPP [nuclear power plant], we have no intention of doing so.”
All this has resulted in heightened international scrutiny over operations at the plant. Ukraine says “the world is watching.”
The Ukrainian government has actually been making these claims for weeks, with some independent observers such as David Sachs saying this could set the stage for a “Gulf of Tonkin moment”.
Below is what Sachs wrote last month when Ukrainian claims regarding Zaporizhzhia plant grew louder and louder…
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Is a Gulf of Tonkin moment at hand? Shortly after returning from his latest trip to Kyiv, Senator Graham along with Blumenthal introduced his resolution providing Article 5 guarantees to Ukraine in the event that, among other things, a nuclear facility is destroyed in Ukraine.
Just coincidentally, the Ukrainian government including Zelensky and intel chief Budanov started issuing warnings about Russian plans to blow up the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, even though the plant is under Russian control and blowing it up would have no strategic value.
Ukrainian propaganda channels keep pumping this claim without evidence. Of course, a compliant media has not pressed them for any, simply repeating the claims as if they come from an unbiased source. If ZNPP gets destroyed, we won’t know for sure who did it, but we can be sure that the media will reflexively blame it on Russia, as they ludicrously did with the destruction of Nord Stream.
This press dynamic combined with the Graham-Blumenthal resolution actually creates a perverse incentive for *someone* to destroy ZNPP if they want to draw America deeper into the conflict. Biden has previously sworn that America will not get directly involved, on the grounds that would start World War III, but he also promised not to provide F-16s for the same reason.
We know what happened with that promise. In 1965, LBJ committed large numbers of American troops to the Vietnam War after previously stating “We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.”
The outrage over the Gulf of Tonkin incident, which we now know to be a lie, created the pretext for that involvement. If ZNPP is destroyed, look for howls of outrage from the War Party seeking the “Americanization” of the Ukraine war to begin.
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ZeroHedge Tylers can fall to their knees and worship my cock.
I truly think neither side is going to fire a shot.into that power station as they all know the countryside will be polluted for centuries to come.
Not worth it. Either way.
Oh, and fuck ZeroHedge in the ass.
Ask me about how the Tylers banned WildBillSteamcock in real time before my eyes, because he posted links to their own disinformation. Show me a link to contact them about silencing Me and Bill.
Yeah, I said it….
Ya, the puppet masters really care about the environment. They abhor pollution. As the chemtrail planes fly around the world…..
Ask yourself if a nuclear event would hasten bringing the world to its knees, or not?
Chernobyl created a human free reserve where nature thrived, this may be appealing to the deranged environmentalists. What better excuse for locking us up again, to protect us from the deadly radiation only fifteen minutes outdoors per day is permitted. Sorry all the animal meat is contaminated, it’s bugs farmed in underground bunkers from now on.
Oh absolutely,effects are as intended….
Whatever you say, Neil Armstrong.
Sure they were so honest about Chernobyl and learned such a great lesson they would never do something like that again!
Did you know you can take a tour of Chernobyl even though the radiation is extremely high and the containment building is breaking down? Now that is real concern!
Just a Q,”centuries”?….why are Hiroshima and the bikini atoll tourist destinations today.????….all those radio isotopes laying around…….and speaking of Cherynobl…..where are all the mutant forest critters……
Ukraine/NATO have every incentive to attack the plant since they’re losing the war and the geopolitical battle, and Russia has no incentive to do so since they’re winning the war and the plant is on Russian (occupied) territory, so any thinking person (i.e., all but leftists and neocons) will know who carried out the dastardly deed. Moreover, surely the Russians must’ve done everything possible to protect the plant, so an attack is liable to fail. If missiles or spec ops do get through and destroy or damage the plant there would be unmistakable proof–the Russians must have dozens of cameras and satellites aimed at the plant to show the world where they came from– that Ukraine/NATO was responsible. Of course our corporate media will hide it, but most of the world would know the truth. Under this scenario how could the cretins in Washington/Kiev even imagine they could get away with it?
” . . . the plant is on Russian (occupied) territory . . .”
. . . that the Russians count as Russia, past, present and future.
Why wouldn’t the DS (Deep State/Deep Shekels) get away with it? Who is going to stop them? You, me? Nope…..they will blatantly lie and the rotting bag of oatmeal in the WH will come on TV and say we have to defend freedom and stopping the Russians in Ukraine will keep America safe blah blah blah…..and we won’t do a damn thing. We know they are lying, they know we know and don’t give a shit. Until we stop them they will continue…which is one of Newton’s laws…a body in motion will remain in motion until acted on by an outside force……and as far as I can tell there is simply no political will in America to oppose the heinous acts done in our name.
A+ on this ! Especially the ” they know we know” part, it’s almost an arrogant game with them- gets them off to smugly tell us a bold-faced lie and know that nobody in the media or the beltway will contradict them and that the masses can go F*%$ themselves.
The talking faces will repeat the lie over and over and even if they know the masses don’t believe a word of the BS, it becomes the official narrative because that’s all that is allowed to be spoken/written/broadcast.
Yep there will be toasted bread and glowing circuses here before the day of the rope. Will is an atrophied muscle.
What tips the hand toward this false flag happening is the added benefit of activating the” climate emergency/change” cult for its long-awaited acceleration phase.
Nuke power must be put to bed as an option as a solution to the death spiral of “green” energy currently taking over GAE-global energy.
Given the long regulatory timelines, expertise and technical labor deficit, and capital risk disincentives already in-place, any kind of radiological event would foreclose nuke power for the “west” for generations. Or until our new Chinese masters decide to re-light the Diverse Continent.
Well, Bob, since nuclear plants are all fake anyway, this is just more fear porn for the masses.
Do you know how many nuclear plants there are, allegedly, in operation in Ukraine? Fifteen. What makes Zaporizhye so special, are we not worried about the other fourteen? There are 410 operable nuclear plants, supposedly, in the US alone; they are blowing everything else up around here, why not a few reactors too? Let me put it this way: if they could have done so, do you not think someone would have by now, not just in the US but Ukraine and the other countries on this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_nuclear_reactors#Ukraine ?
Just like with nuclear weapons; if they existed, some fool would have used one by now. Nobody has. But they swear they have them, and will use them if pushed, and oh won’t we all be sorry.
(You remember the Star Trek episode “The Doomsday Machine?” The one where Kirk and crew has to fight a big blue Corn Bugle with an attitude, that can carve up whole planets https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708461/?ref_=ttep_ep6 ? Well, if there ever was a better sci-fi story to have been filmed, it is a rare one; it shows what could actually happen if someone built something capable of killing everybody else: they would destroy themselves in the process. Even Bill Shatner’s over… ACTING! could not blunt the point of this story. A classic.)
Of course, people point to nuclear plants and see steam rising, so there must be some nuclear shit going on over there, right? Unless it is not steam. But what else could it be? They have to keep all that nuclear shit cool! It could all go boom at any time if it gets hot! They told us so!
Tell you what, since these things are so volatile, why not spend taxpayer dollars to build another 400 or so across the country, eh? Brilliant! Just what we needed!
How much do you want to bet nobody is going to blow anything up out there, and in a few months this story will pop up — again?
NO NUKES IS GOOD NUKES
Hollywood special effects?
“The fallacy of ambiguity, or polysemy.
This fallacy includes the fallacies of equivocation, conflation, composition and such as well as your case of mixing technical terminology and ordinary usage. Conflation can also be considered a continuum or equivocation fallacy, but in particular conflation is the merging of two different things. Ambiguity, being open to more than one interpretation, more accurately describes the general fallacy.
Depending on the argument, the mis-use of technical jargon can also be an argument from false authority, or an example of a rhetorical device of “argumentum ad ignorantiam” which relies upon the audience’s ignorance. Stating “gravity is just a theory” is not, however, an argument.”
Just Sayin’
95 % of all media outlets are C.F.R. controlled . CFR by its own admission stands for ” international liberalism ” — IE Globalism.
” News ” reports are fake and gay.
Russia gains nothing by such an attack …… change my mind.
Shut up and take your booster shot. Do not attempt to think or depression may occur.
Did you mean to type i.e. as in id est? Or are you meaning Industrial Engineer Globalism?
How about GFY!….good day sir!
I have still got all my Nuclear Fear porn decorations from the Fukushima Cherry Nukem Festival!
Good thing I got those storage boxes!
Now, where is my Nuclear Manger…
How many $Billions does the fag president Z demand this week to stop the naughty Russians from unleashing all sorts of radioisotopes?
I wonder if anyone is seriously considering doing this, or if it is just more fear mongering and propaganda, providing both sides with justification to the general public for continuing this insane conflict.
Eh….50-50….one foot in today,one foot in preparation…..
What does experience tell you?
There are no nuclear weapons, so don’t worry about that part.
The power plant story is meant to perpetuate anxiety. Ask yourself how many of the stories you’ve heard in the last year and a half about the Ukraine have turned out to be true? Any of them?
Maybe this time it will be different, but the odds are pretty long.