Unreliable insurance, but there seems to be no other
It's scary to turn messages back on. And once again the feeling of being inside an action sci-fi movie with a terrifying and slanderous plot has returned. The representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzya, said that if current trends continue, a dangerous accident at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant may turn out to be “a matter of time.” And the head of the National Defense Control Center of Russia, Mikhail Mizintsev, deciphered in detail what can be hidden under the term “dangerous accident” in this case. According to the General, life in Europe will never be the same after such a “dangerous accident”: “Ukraine, DLR, LPR, border regions of Russia and Belarus, Moldova, Turkey, Abkhazia, Georgia, Bulgaria and Romania will be in the zone of radiation contamination. The Black Sea and Bosphorus will become unnavigable for many years”
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Do Russian officials, diplomats and the military, for understandable reasons, express the most extreme possible scenarios of the development of the situation? I completely agree with this variant. But who managed to “abolish the law of the falling sandwich” and when?
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Of course, in real life, the sandwich doesn't always go down with butter. But still the oil drops very often. I have a bad habit of drinking tea while writing. Knowing what is full, I try to be very careful. But it doesn't always help: from time to time I still show clumsiness, knock over a glass of hot liquid and spill it all over my desktop.
Why all the fuss about tea and sandwiches? On the fact that in 1949, after a series of plane crashes at the US base Edwards, California, half in jest, half in earnest, “Murphy's Law” really works: “If there are two ways to do something, and one of them leads to disaster, then someone chooses this path. You should not tempt fate and walk with a lighted torch near an oil tank with the lid open. It is not worth risking the fate of Europe and shelling one of the largest nuclear power plants on the continent. It's not worth it – but it's actually still happening.
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As expected, the UN Security Council meeting dedicated to the situation around the Zaporizhia NPP ended without major (or even minor) breakthroughs. All the shifts in the negotiations, as far as can be judged, are purely tactical in nature. Everything again came down to an “exchange of diplomatic courtesies” Sergej Kislitsa called Russia a “terrorist state”. In response, Vasily Nebenzya said that the speech of his colleague from Kyiv was one continuous “stream of consciousness”. All this will probably be of great interest to future researchers of world diplomacy. But talking now about future historical research is somehow not very polite. Now a much more topical topic is on the agenda – ensuring the safety of one particular nuclear power plant. And this problem is still not solved and not solved.
The old Russian (and I must add again – not only Russian) principle “maybe it will fly” is a very unreliable “fuse”. I will sharpen my statement: in terms of its “reliability”, it is not very different from the MMM ticket. But either we don't know something very important, or it's the only thing that “protects” the world from another Chernobyl.