• @[email protected]
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    165 days ago

    You missed the obvious one: Sending a message that they are willing to escalate.

    The strike hit the “sarcophage” that was built to contain the ruins of the reactor that blew up in 1986.

    The message is “we will risk large scale nuclear contamination”. Remember how a few months back they used an ICBM w.o. a nuclear warhead for some missile strike, they could have done with a regular missile?

    Combine the two messages: “We have the missiles”+“we will risk large scale nuclear contamination” -> “We are serious about the nuke business. Don’t get in our way.”

    • bluGill
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      85 days ago

      nuclear was claimed as a nato red line when this war first started. They are testing nato to see if it is really a redline.