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  • they’re not going to ruin vast swaths of their own land for the next century after the fight with Russia fizzles out, as most people know will happen at this rate.

    They’re losing territory every day, if Chernobyl is Russian territory when the war fizzles out, it’s likely to remain that way for quite some time.

    Meanwhile Russia’s only long-term plans for Ukraine is oil, gas and minerals. They don’t need the land, they want to hurt as many citizens as possible, get to the goods and carve out territory to restore pipelines

    All of these objectives made more difficult if you have a nuclear containment issue inside that territory. If you control the territory, you have no reason to use a drone to irradiate territory you need to move troops and supplies through.

    I’m not saying that Russia didn’t do it, idk if they held the territory at the time, but to suggest Russia somehow benefits from irradiating itself is just silly. This isn’t even the first time we’ve seen this, see the dam, pipeline, and bridge in Russian-held territory that people tried to blame on Russia for borderline conspiratorial reasons.