Unreliable insurance, but there doesn’t seem to be another one
It’s scary to turn on the news again. And again, the feeling returned that you were inside a sci-fi action movie with a simultaneously frightening and devious plot. The representative of the Russian Federation to the UN, Vasily Nebenzia, said that if current trends continue, a dangerous accident at the Zaporozhye NPP may turn out to be “a matter of time.” And the head of the National Defense Management Center of Russia, Mikhail Mizintsev, deciphered in detail what in this case canhiding behind the term “dangerous accident”. As follows from the general’s statement, after such a “dangerous accident” life in Europe will never be the same: “Ukraine, the DPR, the LPR, the border regions of Russia and Belarus, Moldova, Turkey, Abkhazia, Georgia, Bulgaria and Romania will be in the radiation contamination zone. The Black Sea and the Bosphorus Strait will become unsuitable for navigation for many years”
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For obvious reasons, Russian officials, diplomats and the military are voicing the most extreme of possible scenarios for the development of the situation? I fully admit this option. But who and when managed to “repeal the law of the falling sandwich”?
In real life, a sandwich, of course, does not always fall butter down. But it still falls oil down very often. I have a bad habit of drinking tea while writing texts. Knowing what this is fraught with, I try to be very careful. But it doesn’t always help: periodically, I still show clumsiness, knock over a glass of hot liquid and pour everything on my desktop.
Why all this rant about tea and sandwiches? To the fact that formulated back in 1949 after a series of plane crashes at the US Edwards base in California, half in jest, half seriously, “Murphy’s law” really works: “If there are two ways to do something, and one of them leads toif there is a catastrophe, then someone will choose this method.” Do not tempt fate and walk around with a lit torch near a tank with oil products with an open lid. 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 in fact all this continues to happen.
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As expected, the meeting of the UN Security Council devoted to the situation around the Zaporozhye NPP ended without any special (or even without any special) breakthroughs. All the negotiation shifts, as far as we can judge, are purely tactical in nature. Everything again came down to an “exchange of diplomatic pleasantries” Sergey Kislitsa called Russia a “terrorist state”. In response, Vasily Nebenzia said that his speechcolleagues from Kiev are one continuous “stream of consciousness”. All this will probably be of great interest to future researchers of world diplomacy. But it’s not even very decent to talk about future historical research now. Now a much more pressing issue is on the agenda — ensuring the safety of one particular nuclear power plant. And this issue is not being solved and is not being solved.
The old Russian (and again I have to add — not only Russian) principle of “maybe it will pass” is a very unreliable “insurance policy”. I will sharpen my statement: according to the degree of its “reliability”, it does not differ much from the MMM ticket. But either we don’t know something very important, or it’s the only thing that “protects” the world from a new Chernobyl.