Russia and Ukraine on Tuesday accused each other of plotting to stage an attack on the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station, long the subject of mutual recriminations and suspicions.
    • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I wonder about that myself. The article says that there is “no evidence” for either side’s claims, but Russia’s past history of false accusations is in fact evidence that one side is more credible than the other. So is the inherent implausibility of Russia’s accusation now.

      Whether or not someone is a liar is not a matter of personal opinion but rather an objective fact. Failing to report on that is a false neutrality, one more concerned with the appearance of being neutral than with the truth.

      • Bronzie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        1 year ago

        They have absolutely nothing to gain from it though.
        The amount of intel the west has is gargantuan and if the US and/or NATO even suspected the Ukrainians of doing it the backlash would be enormous.

        Ukraine has everything to gain by playing with open cards and moving in our direction, even if it costs them.

        Remember the AA missile landing in Poland last year?
        As soon as investigations showed it could be their own fault, they apologized profusely.

    • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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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.