Comments by "Anders Juel Jensen" (@andersjjensen) on "Is there a military reason behind the Nova Kakhovka disaster?" video.

"Due to some combination of incompetence" is the only bite-sized statement that gives a reasonable picture of every single decision Russia has made during this conflict, including launching the invasion in the first place.
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I had the good fortune of training the first two batches of Estonian lads who came to Denmark for military training in '97. The Nordics entered into a mutual security agreement with the Baltics way way before they even joined the EU and NATO. The experiences the Estonians shared with me about what it was like to be an ethnic Estonian in an army where every officer was ethnic Russian made my blood boil. If you think Hitlers nonsense about the Aryan Race was bad, wait until you find out how ethnic Moscovites see themselves.... My heart bleeds for everyone who's been under the Russian boot. If I hadn't been retired with PTSD from a blast accident I would be in Ukraine fighting these assholes.
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@gorillaguerillaDK Correction: The first two batches at Prinsens in Viborg. It's been a "little while" so I'm not going to put the chips down on whether they were the first Estonians flat out.
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@gorillaguerillaDK Doesn't ring a bell. I was there pretty short term and went back to NJAR in Skive to prepare for IFOR after the 2x6 weeks with the Estonians.
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Except once the reservoir is empty they have lengthened the frontline. The downstream river delta was much harder to traverse than the plain river that will be where the reservoir was. The IAEA is already present on ZNPP and has stated that there is no danger because the local cooling pond is sufficient. The local cooling pond was specifically crated to mitigate a dam failure. So Russia has bought themselves a bit of time. And when that time runs out they'll be in a worse position than before.
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Your problem is that it is hard to convince yourself that Russia, once the brains of the USSR, has deteriorated into a state where incompetence, corruption, "yes-man" syndrome, drunkenness and habitual negligence is so pervasive throughout every link in the entire chain that everything they do seems almost random from the outside. Trying to analyse Russia's actions though a prisem of reason and coherent logic distorts the image more than it clarifies it. If you run though a "checklist" of "inflated ego, spite, pettiness, incompetence and self serving tendencies at the individual level" before you apply rational military strategy, then everything makes whole lot more sense. It's just SCREAMINGLY scary to apply that kind of thinking... to a country that has 6000 nuclear weapons and is lead by an autocrat who refuses to use the internet in any capacity because "it could all be fake".
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@tomk3732 Nobody but you stooges believe Ukraine ever shelled ZNPP.
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