LocalOaf [they/them]

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  • Anybody have a good report on the Khakhovka Dam collapse from last June? Had a discussion/disagreement with a pro-Ukraine guy irl about stuff after the golf course Trump would-be assassin turned out to be a deranged NAFO guy and the irl guy was trying to deflect about “Russian imperialism” at the same time he was claiming “Putin is doing scorched earth tactics purely out of vindictive national hatred of the Ukrainian people” and claimed Russia destroyed the dam just to flood out the region downstream of it to ruin infrastructure.

    I don’t know enough about it to push back on it confidently and didn’t want to reveal my power level too much, but the whole thing read to me like the “Russia is gonna blow up the ZNPP as a dirty bomb” thing awhile back where I was just like “…the power plant they control? That they captured and secured? That they’d want to maintain as valuable infrastructure if they intend on conquering everything in Ukraine like you claim?” I know there’s a lot of fog of war shit in reporting from an active warzone, but I’m almost certain this guy believed in the “Ghost of Kiev” and probably soyfaced over the “Russian warship, go fuck yourself” Snake Island thing, and the dam collapse thing being a vindictive Russian scorched earth thing just sounds fishy to me. Weren’t there reports of it being hit with US supplied HIMARS by Ukrainian forces or am I thinking of something else?

    Pushing back on this kind of shit makes me feel like pepe-silvia sometimes I stfg