Ukraine War, 6 June 2023: Ecocide

For nearly 16 months, I’ve held myself back in regards of ‘all out’ accusations of Russia. I was and I still am trying to avoid getting emotional. Serious analysis of any war is like money: it’s corrupting the soul. It takes lots of restraint, otherwise one is easily slipping into PRBS…. But…sigh… this morning even I can’t but conclude that Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and his FSB henchmen have successfully converted the Russian Federation into a terrorist state.

The last night, hordes of barbarians commanded by that jerk have unleashed an unprecedented campaign of terror upon Ukraine.

….by side that around 23.00-23.30hrs Tu-95MS have released 36 Kh-101 and Kh-555 cruise missiles from above the Caspian Sea and that 35 of these were shot down…

….by side that the Russians targeted Kharkiv with S-300 SAMs fired in ballistic mode…

But, at around 02.00hrs in the morning, the Russians blew up the giant Kakhovka HPP.

From my point of view, there is no way to explain the resulting catastrophe in words. It is impossible to predict its consequences. Perhaps when I compare this catastrophe to the one of Chernobyl of 1986, few might wake up. But, I do not find even this for a good comparison: there are no comparisons. Thus, please, do not come to the ideas like asking me who’s going to take advantage and profit from this action. When things reach proportions of catastrophe this act has caused there are no ‘winners’.

I do find it interesting to monitor Russian reactions to all of this, though.

Gauging by what is coming out from Russian officials (and their collaborators in Ukraine), it seems the Russians ‘tried to blow up just a little bit’ of the dam, and that Moscow never informed even its Gauleiter for Nova Kakhovka, Vladimir Leontiev.

Indeed, the super-turbo-smart military geniuses in Moscow and elsewhere have never considered the fact that the dam has already suffered extensive damage in earlier fighting, while they haven’t maintained it for over a year. And that, contrary to March, when the water level was extremely low, after heavy rains of this spring, the reservoir was almost at maximum capacity. Brimming full. Which means that the results of as idiotic actions as blowing up the dam must be maximal too…

Once the dam was blown up, there was no reaction in Russia for hours: who cares about dozens of thousands of people living downstream?

Even if, around 06.00hrs Gauleiter Leontiev explained that the story about the dam being blown up is ‘nonsense’…

About an hour later, different of Putin’s social-media outlets began picking up the story, with explanations like, ‘it was just a little bit of blowing up a minor section of the dam during the withdrawal of the Russian armed forces from the right bank of the Dnipro’. Hey idiots: if you’re so good at ‘smashing the Ukrainian counteroffensive’ as you’ve claimed yesterday, then why withdrawing?

Ironically, around the same time, Gauleiter Leontiev changed his story to ‘Ukrainians have shelled the dam’, followed with ‘there’s no threat for people’s lives on banks of the Dnipro River’ and ‘this is a serious terrorist attack’.

Yes, idiots: this is a terrorist attack of catastrophic proportions, and you – the Russians - are the instigators.

Ever since, half the Russian social media was in delirium of happiness over the flooding threatening to sweep away ZSU units deployed on islands downstream, and these now having to quickly evacuate their positions… the other half is already creating all sorts of fake news about ‘Ukrainian attack’ – while all of them are entirely ignoring reports about the better part of the VSRF unit responsible for this action – the I Battalion, 205^rd Motor Rifle Brigade – being the first to get swept away and drowned by water masses, and that in scores.

…while, this morning, the VSRF is shelling Kherson City, the VKS is bombing evacuation routes - thus hampering evacuation efforts…

….which is making it obvious: nobody there in the Russian Federation has ever lost a single atom of a thought about possible consequences of this action, not even of their own, ‘if we can't have it, no one else can’-mindset: but, of course, ‘everything is developing according to the plan’….

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In grand total: Putin and his henchmen have just caused a massive environmental catastrophe with and entirely unpredictable- yet disastrous consequences.

And they did so after being either ignored or outright supported by countless ‘points of contact’ in the West for nearly 20 years - including by characters like certain Elon Muskvich, who consider illustrations of this kind for ‘freedom of speech’.

Hand on heart: calling that ‘freedom of speech’ is offence to any reasonable human being. Completely irresponsible nonsense of megalomaniacs curious to continue enabling Putin and thus co-responsible for catastrophes like this one in Nova Kakhovka of today, 6 June 2023.  

…but hey, in the world of Communism for the Rich, ‘they’ are all ‘TBTF’…