Nuclear Mirrors: The Mirror Works Both Ways

So Russia thought it could asymmetrically provoke a nuclear catastrophe in Europe’s largest nuclear power plant. However, Ukraine can mirror that in Russia, and should do so, even to pay Russia back for its crimes already against three of Ukraine’s nuclear power plants.

The mirror works both ways.

Source: Pensees (117)

Applied mirroring at its most dangerous: the nuclear dimension. Russia seized Zaporizhzhia and weaponised the threat of nuclear catastrophe as War Magic — pure spectacle designed to paralyse NATO into inaction. But the mirror works both ways. Ukraine’s drone campaign demonstrated it could reach Russia’s own nuclear infrastructure. The asymmetry Russia relied on — “we have nuclear plants, you wouldn’t dare” — evaporated. See Hall of Mirrors.

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