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Nevilledog

(50,687 posts)
Sat Feb 26, 2022, 01:51 PM Feb 2022

Russia may be planning a dirty bomb attack on its own territory



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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 doesn’t have nuclear weapons, doesn’t 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.
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Russia may be planning a dirty bomb attack on its own territory (Original Post) Nevilledog Feb 2022 OP
it's terrifying, all media need to preemptively broadcast this likely scenario AlexSFCA Feb 2022 #1
Weaponizing Transparency Beetwasher. Feb 2022 #2
Kick dalton99a Feb 2022 #3
I believe they plan to blow up the sarcophagus at Chernobyl lapfog_1 Feb 2022 #4
If this actually happens, MarineCombatEngineer Feb 2022 #5
Agree..he has to be stopped, because he won't! PortTack Feb 2022 #9
Is there anything the west can do to stop this? This sounds disastrous. Maraya1969 Feb 2022 #6
That will destroy a big chunk of Europe C_U_L8R Feb 2022 #7
They will blame Ukraine lapfog_1 Feb 2022 #8
If they do this, it will be the end of things as we know it Azathoth Feb 2022 #10

AlexSFCA

(6,137 posts)
1. it's terrifying, all media need to preemptively broadcast this likely scenario
Sat Feb 26, 2022, 01:53 PM
Feb 2022

this is classic putin’s playbook.

lapfog_1

(29,166 posts)
4. I believe they plan to blow up the sarcophagus at Chernobyl
Sat Feb 26, 2022, 01:58 PM
Feb 2022


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)
5. If this actually happens,
Sat Feb 26, 2022, 02:04 PM
Feb 2022

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".

Azathoth

(4,603 posts)
10. If they do this, it will be the end of things as we know it
Sat Feb 26, 2022, 02:56 PM
Feb 2022

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.

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