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Pro-Russian Analysis of the Strategy Behind the Attacks on Ukrainian Electrical Infrastructure
2024-04-02
[JohnHelmer] The electric war, which in its first phase commenced in September 2022, has now entered its second and final phase – final, that is, for the Ukraine.

This is strategic; war has never been fought like this in Europe. The US and NATO general staffs and politicians have been taken by complete surprise. “The Ukrainians are building Maginot and Siegfried lines according to the instructions of their foreign advisers,” according to a Moscow analyst, “as if the Russian offensive will be men, artillery and tanks running across the landscape towards Kiev. But they won’t have to. The offensive against Ukrainian electricity cannot be stopped at these lines.”

Without effective defence for its power generating plants, distribution hubs, and grid lines, the Kiev regime’s power is being stopped across the country; the major Novorussian cities in the east – Odessa, Kharkov, Dniepropetrovsk – are being blacked out and their populations forced to evacuate; the warmaking resupplies of the NATO allies are being cut off at borders which are now exposed to reversal of electricity surges threatening the plants and grids of southern Poland, Romania and Moldova. Even European and American money for President Vladimir Zelensky’s regime needs electricity to move.
Isn’t preferentially destroying civilian structures a war crime?
Posted by:Gloluns Turkeyneck4904

#5  At the risk of getting called for piling on, Ukraine moves military stuff by train, trains that use electricity for traction power. Power plants are harder to repair than train tracks.
Posted by: SteveS   2024-04-02 23:51  

#4  I yield me to you all, darn it!
Posted by: trailing wife   2024-04-02 23:07  

#3  Isn’t preferentially destroying civilian structures a war crime?

Serbia, 1999
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-04-02 12:54  

#2  "Isn’t preferentially destroying civilian structures a war crime?"

War Crimes, funny that. No one I've asked can list russian military targets in Belgorod. The attacks there are simply to terrorize russian civilians. Not the war crimes your looking for, huh.
Posted by: mossomo   2024-04-02 12:43  

#1  Isn’t preferentially destroying civilian structures a war crime?

See Dresden, and Hooties targeting commercial shipping. War is a crime.
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-04-02 10:17  

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