Chokehold At Nuclear Plant Seen as Leverage to New Advantage in Destabilizing Ukrainian Defenses

Submitted by M Tovey (United States), Sep 5, 2022 at 14:55

Zaporizhzhia, a name that for those outside of the Ukraine has little in the way of determining how critical the Ukrainian incursion might become, has a history of unsettling unrest that goes back to a period in which Cossacks were considered the bane of Russian (and Polish) empires of the past.
Anyone; remember Taras Bulba? It wass fictinal, but nevertheless told a story of the passions that are at play today. The Ukraine has always had global implications, but not nearly as impassioned as they are currently.
The discussion in this forum elsewhere as to the viability of NATO in consideration of its former mission against the Warsaw Pact versus the obviously diluted posturing in not being able to correctly Identify Friend versus Foe and interested parties wondering if a replacement needs be sought, the Ukraine may end up being the litmus test for answering that inquiry; but will that be in time?
The complication comes in when realizing that the alliances forming to confront NATO are not in fully similar modes of self protection, that as one considers the ambitions of the Russian, the mullahs and their proxies (oh, and in the background the PRA leadership of the CCP); they resort each to the other only in their common hatred of West culture and the full emnity of the Judeo-Christian influences that have been the force for peace in a world fully bent on a mission to reestablsih ambitions of empires that will lead eventually to the global governmental entity that every once in a while, many allude to the thinking that will solve everything.
Seriously, where's the flaw of that ideology? The focus of that is centered in Zaporizhzhia, right now.

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