Yeah, they've indeed put a lot of stuff at ZNPP, and also shell around from time to time to scare any possibility of IAEA or other agency mission. It was obvious long before war that Russia has all characteristics of a terroristic cult, but they've suppressed even my expectations.
Look, I may support the Ukranian cause wholeheartedly against Russia. But anything involving nuclear power plants has been nothing but an excuse for Zelenskyy to invoke Hispanic Panic and try to incite other nations to enter the military actions of the war by threatening spillover from nuclear fallout.
It's disingenuous, because Russia would be on the front' lines for any such fallout. And it's the cringiest thing Zelenskyy keeps trying these days. I've tuned it out as war baiting.
Makes sense. Which makes it hilarious northern states that push for open borders suddenly hate when busloads of them come from TX and dropped off on their doorstep.
But that's off topic from the thread. I'm sure at some point I'll get deployed to the region if this "war" doesn't get resolved anytime soon...
It's a cute tactic, but really stupid. NYC and DC could just as easily fill those buses with local homeless and meth addicts -- many with roots in Texas, mind you -- and ship them back on the same buses. Then what? What have we really solved other than having governors fling sh*t over the walls at each other while the public watches and has to put up with these antics? Doing it for the memes is not political leadership.
As cynical as you can be about sanctuary cities, it's one thing to support a local policy and another thing to direct a campaign of weaponizing migrants against a single city that isn't set up to receive the influx from an entirely foreign state at once.
Massachusetts weaponized Irish immigrants in the mid-1800s, and it was a sh*t show own-goal on the nation. It's cute for the laughs, but it doesn't solve anything. Just more of American forking itself in the eyes again.
Passing the buck is not leadership. What next? Every state with a mass shooter or an abortion ships the corpses to Texas?