I’ve always taken Russian nuclear threats with a handful of salt. Political nuances and Putin’s mental state aside, it seems like it would be suicide for Russia. Prevailing winds blow west to east and Russia is east of Ukraine. Moscow and St. Petersburg are in western Russia. Why would they do that?
I’ve always taken Russian nuclear threats with a handful of salt. Political nuances and Putin’s mental state aside, it seems like it would be suicide for Russia. Prevailing winds blow west to east and Russia is east of Ukraine. Moscow and St. Petersburg are in western Russia. Why would they do that?
Such an easy to understand concept! How often did any media point this out? Fallout from Chernobyl mostly affected Belarus to the east. Putin’s soldiers would be moving from the east, into the areas of the fallout.
I don’t recall any media ever mentioning that, not MSM (CBS or NBC), not MSNBC, not The NY Times, Washington Post, or my local paper, and not any of the 6 Substacks I follow.
I remembered about the drift from Chernobyl eastward. (I visited my daughter in Kyyiv in the Peace Corps 2005. Little old ladies were selling berries and mushrooms from the “forest,” which we were told not to buy because they likely came from the exclusion zone. Pensions were worthless. Other little old ladies swept the streets with twig brooms.)
I think Timothy Snyder may have discussed it at one time, that Putin’s troops would have trouble with it, even if it didn’t blow all the way to Russia. Snyder also said that the various things which supposedly would trigger Putin to launch nukes, had already happened.
I don't recall when or where but I have read this evaluation - equal or greater hazard to Russia and Belarus in a nuclear event, be it weapons or the nuclear power plant.
I’ve always taken Russian nuclear threats with a handful of salt. Political nuances and Putin’s mental state aside, it seems like it would be suicide for Russia. Prevailing winds blow west to east and Russia is east of Ukraine. Moscow and St. Petersburg are in western Russia. Why would they do that?
Such an easy to understand concept! How often did any media point this out? Fallout from Chernobyl mostly affected Belarus to the east. Putin’s soldiers would be moving from the east, into the areas of the fallout.
I don’t recall any media ever mentioning that, not MSM (CBS or NBC), not MSNBC, not The NY Times, Washington Post, or my local paper, and not any of the 6 Substacks I follow.
I remembered about the drift from Chernobyl eastward. (I visited my daughter in Kyyiv in the Peace Corps 2005. Little old ladies were selling berries and mushrooms from the “forest,” which we were told not to buy because they likely came from the exclusion zone. Pensions were worthless. Other little old ladies swept the streets with twig brooms.)
I think Timothy Snyder may have discussed it at one time, that Putin’s troops would have trouble with it, even if it didn’t blow all the way to Russia. Snyder also said that the various things which supposedly would trigger Putin to launch nukes, had already happened.
I don't recall when or where but I have read this evaluation - equal or greater hazard to Russia and Belarus in a nuclear event, be it weapons or the nuclear power plant.