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porcinechoirmaster t1_j4ljcl9 wrote

Reply to comment by TwoFrontHitters in Russia fires new waves of missiles at Ukraine and hits energy infrastructure by Rofocal07

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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