Why salt the earth when you can just blow a dam?

Russia can deny all they like but this doesn’t take a detective

So the crazy muddafuddas did it, like it was feared they would. The enormity of this can’t be understated nor its implications.

With the dam gone, a huge area has been flooded and could remain so for a long period of time. The drop in water level will mean the Zaporizhzhia nuclear reactor, which has all reactors on cold shut down for months sans one, won’t be able to restart any time soon. It also means Crimea is going to be deprived of water.

The dam breaking wiped out the local zoo, killing everything except a few ducks and swans. The amount of domestic and farm animals killed is incalculable. Even Russian soldiers, who obviously didn’t get the memo, were washed away.

Now when you go down the blame game and you start with “who benefits?” you have to also take into account the attitudes of the players. Who benefits is a cold rational that doesn’t at all take into account some people are just crazy and want to see the world burn, or simply if I can’t have it then you can’t have it either.

We have gone down this road with the Kerch bridge strike and Nordstream and you can read my views in my other articles.