A bit of perspective that more mainstream people may not be remembering:
you remember when Russia was artillery-shelling Ukrainian nuclear-plants?
You remember when Germany told Russia that spraying nuclear-waste all over Europe would be considered an Act of War?
This is the year in-which regional-consolidation begins ( wait & see: it’ll happen ), & having easily-destroyable data-centers GIVES the enemy high-value-targets, that is true,
but having easily broken-open nuclear-plants, which can poison an entire region of one’s country…
in wartime, that isn’t necessarily the brightest “strategy”.
It depends on how psychopathic/nihilistic one’s enemy is, obviously, but Putin?
don’t bet on his consideration for one.
& once Trump crosses his tippingpoint, & ditches the Middle East, to concentrate on annexing Canada ( enforcing that with Greenland severing our EU-lifeline ), & warring on ALL of the rest of the Americas & the Caribbean, for all-Americas “kingdom”, his personal “manifest destiny”…
then the EU’s going to be unbacked, against Putin.
& China’s going to say to Putin: “you let us supplant gov’t in Russia, & we’ll let you rampage on Europe all you want, with all the military-hardware China-Russia can provide you with, & with all the lives who aren’t Chinese that you can scrounge”
& Putin’ll agree.
Which means that Europe’s going to be as Ukraine is, right now, once Trump severs Americas-Europe relations.
It’s in THAT context that datacenters & nuclear powerplants are going to be targets of Putin.
“never hand your enemy weapons” is a good rule.
I’ve NO IDEA what motivates Merz’s statement.
But I REMEMBER Russia artillery-shelling Ukraine’s nuclear-power-plant being reported in the news.
Europe doesn’t need another “Chyernobl”.
Never provide the enemy with targets which MULTIPLY their strikes on us.
Never.
_ /\ _
PS: small, modular, nuclear reactors, thorium, IF they were sunk deep in the bedrock, in shafts, making it impossible for any “bunker buster” to reach them, I’ve no problem with.
It’s the availability-of-nuclear-target that I oppose, not nuclear-the-whole-category.
Only Brazil, Nicaragua and Cuba are not aligned with America. They are no match, there won’t be warring. Canada could become an issue but that would be the only war.
The US will fight other wars.
Merkel shut down nuclear in 2011 and must have known about the risk earlier.
You forgot that Russia is the bigges enricher of urnanium in the world and the EU so far has not managed to get rid of that dependence. Obviously it is possible, but hardly cheap. That is a huge reason why Russian bots love nuclear so much.
A bit of perspective that more mainstream people may not be remembering:
you remember when Russia was artillery-shelling Ukrainian nuclear-plants?
You remember when Germany told Russia that spraying nuclear-waste all over Europe would be considered an Act of War?
This is the year in-which regional-consolidation begins ( wait & see: it’ll happen ), & having easily-destroyable data-centers GIVES the enemy high-value-targets, that is true,
but having easily broken-open nuclear-plants, which can poison an entire region of one’s country…
in wartime, that isn’t necessarily the brightest “strategy”.
It depends on how psychopathic/nihilistic one’s enemy is, obviously, but Putin?
don’t bet on his consideration for one.
& once Trump crosses his tippingpoint, & ditches the Middle East, to concentrate on annexing Canada ( enforcing that with Greenland severing our EU-lifeline ), & warring on ALL of the rest of the Americas & the Caribbean, for all-Americas “kingdom”, his personal “manifest destiny”…
then the EU’s going to be unbacked, against Putin.
& China’s going to say to Putin: “you let us supplant gov’t in Russia, & we’ll let you rampage on Europe all you want, with all the military-hardware China-Russia can provide you with, & with all the lives who aren’t Chinese that you can scrounge”
& Putin’ll agree.
Which means that Europe’s going to be as Ukraine is, right now, once Trump severs Americas-Europe relations.
It’s in THAT context that datacenters & nuclear powerplants are going to be targets of Putin.
“never hand your enemy weapons” is a good rule.
I’ve NO IDEA what motivates Merz’s statement.
But I REMEMBER Russia artillery-shelling Ukraine’s nuclear-power-plant being reported in the news.
Europe doesn’t need another “Chyernobl”.
Never provide the enemy with targets which MULTIPLY their strikes on us.
Never.
_ /\ _
PS: small, modular, nuclear reactors, thorium, IF they were sunk deep in the bedrock, in shafts, making it impossible for any “bunker buster” to reach them, I’ve no problem with.
It’s the availability-of-nuclear-target that I oppose, not nuclear-the-whole-category.
Only Brazil, Nicaragua and Cuba are not aligned with America. They are no match, there won’t be warring. Canada could become an issue but that would be the only war.
The US will fight other wars.
Merkel shut down nuclear in 2011 and must have known about the risk earlier.
Why prepare for Putin then?
Somebody else has a need for a showdown.
You forgot that Russia is the bigges enricher of urnanium in the world and the EU so far has not managed to get rid of that dependence. Obviously it is possible, but hardly cheap. That is a huge reason why Russian bots love nuclear so much.