I see a lot of people saying it was to counter a non existing counteroffensive the media here keeps talking about. According to them, for weeks now, it could ‘happen any time’. But now that the dam has broken, the imaginary counterattack will probably not happen anymore!
We know the US is basically ready to give up on Ukraine (Pentagon stating Ukraine can’t win back territory and other such analyses that get buried by MSM).
We know Ukraine is on the verge of economic collapse and depend on US/European funding (US has just announced they’ll pay Ukrainian government wages).
If this fabled counteroffensive does occur and fails (which it likely will), it’s very likely the US will pull back. After all, they’ve gotten most of what they wanted (blowing up Nordstream, making the Europeans depend on them for gas, privatizing Ukraine, fat profits for corporations have been gained). Furthermore, they can’t really deal with all the backlash, and want to pivot for a confrontation with China.
Ukraine is most likely the culprit here, as it gives them an excuse to push back their “counteroffensive” while saving face for themselves and their overlords.
Ukraine is most likely the culprit here, as it gives them an excuse to push back their “counteroffensive” while saving face for themselves and their overlords.
While also manufacturing yet another atrocity, which as we can see in the western internet, are super popular among the bootlickers which add to the war fervor in the west by itself.
Also it was a strategic target, it does make things harder for Russia.
Finally, see the below pic from Wapo:
UA had the plans for blowing the dam last year, but they “held off”. But between the dwindling help from the west, recent Russian bombings of ammo depots and the bloodbath at Bakhmut one thing is increasingly more clear: there is no getting back the lost territories. Which therefore went from cathegory “temporarily occupied” to “theirs” and thus might as well destroy the crucial infrastructure.
Did you read the comment? Russia didn’t do it for profit they did it for pure spite./s
I see a lot of people saying it was to counter a non existing counteroffensive the media here keeps talking about. According to them, for weeks now, it could ‘happen any time’. But now that the dam has broken, the imaginary counterattack will probably not happen anymore!
Just speculating here:
We know the US is basically ready to give up on Ukraine (Pentagon stating Ukraine can’t win back territory and other such analyses that get buried by MSM).
We know Ukraine is on the verge of economic collapse and depend on US/European funding (US has just announced they’ll pay Ukrainian government wages).
If this fabled counteroffensive does occur and fails (which it likely will), it’s very likely the US will pull back. After all, they’ve gotten most of what they wanted (blowing up Nordstream, making the Europeans depend on them for gas, privatizing Ukraine, fat profits for corporations have been gained). Furthermore, they can’t really deal with all the backlash, and want to pivot for a confrontation with China.
Ukraine is most likely the culprit here, as it gives them an excuse to push back their “counteroffensive” while saving face for themselves and their overlords.
While also manufacturing yet another atrocity, which as we can see in the western internet, are super popular among the bootlickers which add to the war fervor in the west by itself.
Also it was a strategic target, it does make things harder for Russia.
Finally, see the below pic from Wapo: UA had the plans for blowing the dam last year, but they “held off”. But between the dwindling help from the west, recent Russian bombings of ammo depots and the bloodbath at Bakhmut one thing is increasingly more clear: there is no getting back the lost territories. Which therefore went from cathegory “temporarily occupied” to “theirs” and thus might as well destroy the crucial infrastructure.