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TwoFrontHitters t1_j4dmwha wrote

Why won't anyone bomb Moscow's energy infrastructure? Sometimes the bully needs to be bullied.

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FruitcakeAndCrumb t1_j4du16j wrote

Because it could bring about a world war, or at least that's what I was told when asked the same question.

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Dropped-pie t1_j4efi0g wrote

Because it would really kick off, the Russian population would cry victim and Putin could justify all out war, not just special operation

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alexefi t1_j4f6c7p wrote

beside not using nukes how whats happening now isnt all out war?

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alexefi t1_j4k59oa wrote

That sound something that would actually speed up downfall of russia, without being much different for rest of the world.

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HaveCompassion t1_j5m0n1f wrote

That would mean Putin would just lose faster. It's not like they are holding out their good stuff until it gets serious, they are trying to win and they can't.

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porcinechoirmaster t1_j4ljcl9 wrote

There's a list, actually!

  • It would escalate the war to a point where Putin might use nuclear arms. We'd like to avoid that.
  • Attacks on civilian infrastructure are notoriously ineffective at convincing an enemy to surrender. See: Ukraine, England, etc.
  • Attacks on purely civilian infrastructure is a war crime. While electrical facilities can often be considered viable military targets during a war, it is much harder to justify a substation or plant powering a predominately nonmilitary civilian sector (like a city) rather than an industrial plant.

As much as I want Putin and the people enabling him to get an express ticket off this mortal coil, I don't think blowing up Moscow's power infrastructure is the best way to go about doing that.

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Marokiii t1_j4oc0j5 wrote

There's no such thing as a power plant or substation that powers just industrial or just civilian. Everything is so mixed together now that to knock out the power for a long period to a place that builds bombs will cut power to 50k homes.

Knocking it smaller infrastructure nearer to the plant could do it, but that stuffs also far easier to bypass or replace. Knocking out an actual power plant can't be fixed right away.

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HaveCompassion t1_j5m0dv6 wrote

No one will ever use nukes. Can we just stop repeating this already. So tired of the Russpublican propaganda. Russia can't win this war and you think pulling out the nukes is going to stop NATO from crushing Russia if they do.

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