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What should our response be if Russia invades Ukraine?

I caught the final game of the second set and then the tie-breaker of this French Open tennis match today.

sports.yahoo.com

Svitolina rides wave of French Open support to reach quarter-finals

Elina Svitolina, playing her first Grand Slam since becoming a mother, reached the French Open quarter-finals for the fourth time on Sunday."When I was giving birth to our daughter in October, I never believed I would go all the way to the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam," she added.
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The Ukrainian defeated Daria Kasatkina 6-4, 7-6 (7/5) for a seventh win in seven meetings against the Russian who was a semi-finalist last year.

As with all her matches, Svitolina opted not to shake hands with her Russian opponent in protest at the war in Ukraine.

Kasatkina still gave her rival a friendly thumbs-up.
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The crowd was decidedly biased towards Svitolina, but Kasatkina had her share of fans there, too. The media folks mentioned how Kasatkina is an outstanding person that is well-thought-of in the women's professional tennis world and probably had a lot to do with it, too.

Some people booed the Russian player, but the broadcasters quickly said it wasn't justified.

To me, this is what's wrong with what Putin is doing in Ukraine in a nutshell.

Svitolina should be the sentimental favorite in the women's French Open this year. The quarterfinals begin on Tuesday.
 
The Kamikazes of WW2 were the first guided missiles and we all remember the 9/11 attacks.

Although that incident with the Cessna Citation now looks like a sad case of hypoxia similar to what killed Payne Stewart, it's safe to say our military is probably wide awake now for any more sinister threats from the air.
 
Will the summer be filled with the usual rhetoric that leads to a ceasefire or escalation to reprisals against the Allies from Russia?

Flip a coin. I don't know.
 
www.usatoday.com

'Wild fantasies': Russian fighter mocks Kremlin war claims as Ukrainians advance: Updates

The leader of the mercenary Wagner Group dismissed claims by the Russian Defense Ministry that its troops killed more than 1,500 Ukrainian troops.
www.usatoday.com www.usatoday.com

Dam breach threatens not only towns downstream, but it supplies fresh water to Crimea, as well as a nuclear power plant.

Both sides blame the other.

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Spur's Addiction said:
www.usatoday.com

'Wild fantasies': Russian fighter mocks Kremlin war claims as Ukrainians advance: Updates

The leader of the mercenary Wagner Group dismissed claims by the Russian Defense Ministry that its troops killed more than 1,500 Ukrainian troops.
www.usatoday.com www.usatoday.com

Dam breach threatens not only towns downstream, but it supplies fresh water to Crimea, as well as a nuclear power plant.

Both sides blame the other.
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Doesn’t really make sense for Ukraine to blow up their infrastructure. And as this supplies water to crimea, does Russia reazile the jig is up, and are doing a scrotched earth retreat?

Who knows? So many questions.
 
Spur's Addiction said:
Doesn’t really make sense for Ukraine to blow up their infrastructure. And as this supplies water to crimea, does Russia reazile the jig is up, and are doing a scrotched earth retreat?
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A strategic move by Putin. They were worried the Ukrainians were going to cross the Dnipro in an attempt to invade the Crimea.
Also, pretty certain the Russians were occupying the dam and not Ukraine. That took a lot of explosives, so it was not some quick strike SOF operation.

This also reduces the front lines Russia has to defend at least for now. As horrible as it is, it was smart strategically.
 
Destruction of dams happened a lot in WW2 Europe.

The Dam Busters — Destroying Nazi Infrastructure - History

The Dam Busters were an RAF squadron who gain the name for their actions in World War Two during Operation Chastise against the German dams.
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The Russians blew up their own dam on the Dnieper River in Ukraine during WW2.

www.theguardian.com

Second world war: Dnieper dam blown up by Russians – archive, August 1941

Stalin’s secret police blew up the dam in an attempt to slow the advance of Nazi German troops as they swept through Soviet-era Ukraine
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The destruction of the Dnieper dam, which fed the most powerful hydroelectric plant in Europe and took eight years to complete, is the most spectacular act of destruction in Russia since the burning of Moscow in 1812.

The dam supplied power to large agricultural and industrial areas on both sides of the Dnieper, and was an outstanding symbol of Soviet industrial civilisation.
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The dam, which stood a few miles north of the town of Zaporizhzhia, was 2,500 feet long and 159 feet high. It raised the river level by 120 feet and made the Dnieper navigable over almost 1,300 miles by eliminating the rapids.

This was the core of the electrified industrial region of the Dnieper bend and the source of power for the Dneprostroi electrical generating plant on the west bank of the river. The dam cost about $110,000,000 and, with the power station, was built under the guidance of American engineers.
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From the article SA posted:

The Russia-installed mayor of Nova Kakhovka, a city of 45,000, said his town was underwater, state media reported. The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which requires water for its cooling system, is upstream from the dam − also in territory controlled by Russia.
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Is there another dam north of this one, or did this one that was just destroyed replace the one destroyed in WW2 by the Russians to stop the advancing Nazi army?

This is just crazy stuff that Putin is doing to Ukraine, but it does tell how fearful Putin is of the Ukrainian counteroffensive.
 
JimG said:
A strategic move by Putin. They were worried the Ukrainians were going to cross the Dnipro in an attempt to invade the Crimea.
Also, pretty certain the Russians were occupying the dam and not Ukraine. That took a lot of explosives, so it was not some quick strike SOF operation.

This also reduces the front lines Russia has to defend at least for now. As horrible as it is, it was smart strategically.
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I am thinking cruise missile strikes myself.
 
Blitzkrieg said:
Damn barbarians. smh
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One of the criticisms by the Brits of US troops fighting in Africa in WWII, was that the US forces hadn't learned to hate the Germans. Of course, that got turned around.

With the UAF/ZSU now going on the offensive, seems the Russians just gave fresh Ukrainian troops incentive (blowing up the dam) to drive them out of Ukraine.
 
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