Funnily they did it days after Ukrainian officials and an alleged FSB whistleblower warned they'll do so.

They didn't say they want something to go wrong, just that if it does Putin will blame someone else.

I don't think GP is implying Russia has something to gain from it. But that won't prevent it from happening.

>> I get that everyone thinks Putin is crazy and therefore everything every Russian does is suicidal, but come on, we ought be able to put our emotions aside and talk about this properly.

Thinking that putin is crazy is actually a result of talking about all this properly. Because no one in the world can find another explanation.

Putin has backed himself into a corner. The only way the Russian government seems to be willing to move forward is to control the narrative, and so far that has been spinning a false narrative about liberating Ukraine from Nazis. At this point the information curtain is dropping in full force inside the country with extreme laws being put in place punishing "lies" about the way with up to 15 years imprisonment plus cutting off external media and social media.

Chernobyl has been in Russian control since the second or third day of the war. Strategically it is a pathway between Kyiv and Russia. I doubt Russia wants to destroy it, it'll do way more harm to Russia than anyone else, but this is a war and infrastructure is being destroyed.

It's enough to have enough poorly educated people take over there and incompetence will do the rest. This is what caused the '86 meltdown in the first place.

Russia would gain more "validation" of their narrative, that Ukraine is a dangerous state run by Nazis and what not that needs to be "demilitarised" and "denazified". It's of course an outright bullshit narrative, but they keep inventing bullshit to prop it up.