Kakhovka Dam on Dnieper Ukraine failed/destroyed

Claim: A video purporting to show the explosion has gone viral. "The moment that the Nova Kakhovka dam was blown up," one user wrote about the video, which has been viewed more than 200,000 times. The same video has been viewed more than 850,000 times in another tweet in which a user claims that "Russian occupation forces blew up the Kahovka hydroelectric power station".

Fact check: Misleading.

The cause and authorship of the explosions at the Kakhovka dam are still unclear. What is clear, however, is that the viral video does not show Tuesday's explosion.
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https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-viral-video-of-the-kakhovka-dam-explosion-is-old/a-65839380


Notice DW lying......this is not misleading, it is a straight up lie.
 
Explosions on Tuesday morning destroyed the Nova Kakhovka dam on the Dnieper River in southern Ukraine.
Ukraine and Russia blamed each other for the blasts.
Those who believe Russia was behind the destruction speculate that it shows President Vladimir Putin may be willing to sacrifice Crimea, since the reservoir is a major water source for the peninsula.


"The North Crimean Canal, which delivers 85 percent of the water to Crimea, takes water from Nova Kakhovka. Without that, Crimea is not sustainable in the long run," Anders Åslund, an economist and adjunct professor at Georgetown University, told Newsweek.

He added that the dam's destruction could "destroy Crimea's agriculture.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...1faa2f7a&ei=11
 
Hawkeye10 said:
Blowing up dams is a well known war crime. We dont know for sure that this was blown up, but it almost certainly was.
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Not a war crime. The British did it in WW 2, as did the US, among others. The Germans planned to do it to Russia but never got the chance. The US did it in Korea too. It was proposed in the Vietnam war but not carried out. Dams are considered "strategic" targets for their capacity to produce hydroelectric power, for example.

As far as war crimes go, my opinion on that is--as harsh as this sounds, The only true war crime is losing.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Not a war crime. The British did it in WW 2, as did the US, among others. The Germans planned to do it to Russia but never got the chance. The US did it in Korea too. It was proposed in the Vietnam war but not carried out. Dams are considered "strategic" targets for their capacity to produce hydroelectric power, for example.

As far as war crimes go, my opinion on that is--as harsh as this sounds, The only true war crime is losing.
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There is lot of discussion of this topic on the internet today....I will leave it at that.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
There is lot of discussion of this topic on the internet today....I will leave it at that.
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Yea, I'm sure there is. Point out that Britain and the US blew dams up in WW 2 and in subsequent wars (in Korea it was under the auspices of the UN btw so the UN is complicit there), as did Germany and Russia. Japan did it in their war with China too. It's a pretty common target for warfare.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Yea, I'm sure there is. Point out that Britain and the US blew dams up in WW 2 and in subsequent wars, as did Germany and Russia. Japan did it in their war with China too. It's a pretty common target for warfare.
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WW2 was a long long time ago, things change. Also we have the situation here were we get into the WOKE's "It all depends who did it"....If the Russians did it is a war crime, if the Ukrainians did it we wont talk about it. The claims that the Russians did this is so far lacking both evidence and motive....it looks like the motive is all on the Ukrainian side.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
WW2 was a long long time ago, things change. Also we have the situation here were we get into the WOKE's "It all depends who did it"....If the Russians did it is a war crime, if the Ukrainians did it we wont talk about it. The claims that the Russians did this is so far lacking both evidence and motive....it looks like the motive is all on the Ukrainian side.
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Yea, that's the problem. People who are idiots toss about terms like "war crime" without any recognition about what one is, and then unequally apply it to those fighting a war. I refer you to the Arab-Israeli wars as a stellar example of that...
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Yea, that's the problem. People who are idiots toss about terms like "war crime" without any recognition about what one is, and then unequally apply it to those fighting a war. I refer you to the Arab-Israeli wars as a stellar example of that...
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Regardless of how this happened this is a major story of the day, worthy of a thread. We are going to have to wait for this story to develop.
 
I wish I could remember who but just a few days ago I was told that we were likely to see a Ukrainian false flag attack on the nuclear plant now that they are almost completely defeated militarily. Blowing up this dam might be a means to create that nuclear plant catastrophe.
 
The Russians were expected to take large amounts of land after they crush the current offensive, this certainly will make that much more difficult. I disagree with MacGregor, I see the motive as being almost all on the Ukrainian side...he calls it mostly a wash.
 
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