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Bill Browder
@Billbrowder
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Feb 26, 2022
According to the Foreign Minister of Ukraine, Russia may be planning a dirty bomb attack on its own territory to blame on the Ukrainians to justify a massive escalation in the war. This is not hyperbole. Putin did exactly this with apartment bombs in 1999 and blamed on Chechnya
Dmytro Kuleba
@DmytroKuleba
Russian propaganda has gone off the rails and speculates Ukraine might be preparing to drop a dirty bomb on the Russian territory. This is a sick fake. Ukraine doesnt have nuclear weapons, doesnt conduct any work to create/acquire them. We are a responsible member of the NPT.
Bill Browder
@Billbrowder
To follow up on this, Russia is now anticipating a medical emergency and calling out doctors in advance. This is seriously disturbing.
AlexSFCA
(6,137 posts)this is classic putins playbook.
Beetwasher.
(2,965 posts)Im loving the strategy here, everything is being imminintized.
dalton99a
(81,070 posts)lapfog_1
(29,166 posts)And with the prevailing winds, it will poison Belarus, possibly the Baltic states, Poland, Finland.
If they time it for when a low pressure center moves into place... it could poison Ukraine and parts of Russia.
This is why they wanted to fight for the Chernobyl power plant.
MarineCombatEngineer
(12,092 posts)this will trigger a NATO response, and I don't think Putin will like it very much.
If true, then hopefully cooler heads in Moscow will remove this maniac.
Hey Russian Military leaders, are you listening?
Do you really want your country to suffer such a defeat?
Better do something about your unhinged "leader".
PortTack
(32,606 posts)Maraya1969
(22,441 posts)C_U_L8R
(44,897 posts)lapfog_1
(29,166 posts)and use this as excuse to absolutely destroy the country
Azathoth
(4,603 posts)Dropping a dirty bomb on their own people commits them basically to total war -- no sovereign country could tolerate that kind of attack from an enemy, and no leader could survive being discovered as orchestrating it against his own country. It's like burning your ships after landing. There would be no choice but to go all out, up to the use (or at least threatened use) of nuclear weapons.