Posted on 09/05/2022 12:19:25 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The Ukes already shelled the power lines, so it is effectively off line.
“They started this right after Russia said they were going to start charging the Ukrainians for the electricity they received from the plant.”
It’s not the Russian Army, it’s the Russian Mafia.
>>Did they study under the Mafia?
In the Soviet Union, organized crime always existed, but it was controlled by the state under fairly strict limits. Sort of like the Japanese yakuza. It was often organized on ethnic basis, since that afforded better cohesion, e.g. Chechen gangs.
Once Gorby screwed up and the government failed, organized crime came out of the shadows and really flourished. It became hard to tell where organized crime left off and oligarch cabals began.
So no, they didn’t have to study under the Mafia. They had their own “our thing”.
That’s what Zelensky is hoping for and why he has his military shelling the plant.
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