Also it’s easy for russia to then argue England is joining the war and sucking nato into it
Or vice versa. UK sends in an ODA team and washes their hands upon Russian discovery of the whole thing as a rogue unit.
On a serious note, I wouldn’t be too surprised if it’s just a few incredibly naive lower enlisted.
But Russia is blowing up maternity wards/children hospitals, but ok.
I'm so fucking confused as to what's going on anymore.
- Zaporizhzhia is their real nuclear power plant and powers half of Europe. This is the one that is under armed Russian guard 24/7.
- Chornobyl is old and busted and doesn't really do anything.
Just saying Chernobyl scares people so it's a great way to fear monger
there's technically a nuclear power plant in my city used purely for research purposes. it's in the cities security plans that if a major crisis happens it first goes under guard from the cops than it gets passed to the military.
the thing can't actually do any real damage if it blows up though, it's too damn small, but it does legitimately produce nuclear power so you need to have all kinds of wacky security measures surrounding it. that's just how these things go
the fact people think Russia is trying in any capacity get into a conflict with NATO is truly the smoothest of takes
Russia is terrified of NATO. this war is fundamentally occurring to prevent NATO from expanding to their borders. they would lose to Germany in a 1 on 1 war nonetheless the combined forces of North America and the rest of Europe.
UK has sanctioned additional oligarchs including the owner of Chelsea football club. Club is given license to continue fulfilling its schedule and paying players and staff but cannot sell any more tickets or sign any new players.
It's funnier than that.
They can't spend more than £20k on travel trips, which means they need to fly economy and get the bus for their match in lille next week.
Also they're going to run out of cash to pay players within a month because they can't generate sell regular tickets.
They will run out of cash faster if sponsor pull out which some are considering it