How Putin Plans to Unleash a Radioactive Apocalypse on Europe

The Russian leader’s “accidental” armageddon games have a logical (but dooming) economic justification.

Levi Borba
Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant under Russian Occupation
Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant under Russian occupation. Photo by James Waterhouse, CC.

The almost daily bombings of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant are one of the most recent events in the war in Ukraine that has been getting more attention lately.

All the attention this place is receiving is not undeserving. If anything, we should be way more alarmed by the increasing risk the whole European continent is facing every time a shell or a missile hits that building (which is, fortunately, extremely resistant).

But why is Russia bombing a nuclear power plant?

Not any ordinary, little power plant, but Europe’s largest power plant (the largest outside Japan, South Korea, Canada, and China).

The motivations behind bombing this power plant are far more horrifying and revolting than you could ever imagine.

The increasing chances of a catastrophe are certainly of historical and global proportions.

The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant

Zaporizhzhia — a strange word to pronounce even for me, a person very familiar with Slavic languages — is a region in…