Evidence suggests this month's destruction of the huge Kakhovka dam in a Russian-controlled area of Ukraine resulted from an inside explosion set off by Russia, the New York Times said.
  • what@lemmy.worldEnglish
    63·
    1 year ago

    Yeah I’m going to need more than “trust me bro”.

    Not trying to Iraq WMDs 2.0

    • Neuron@mander.xyzOPEnglish
      51·
      1 year ago

      The Reuters article is a little light on what’s included. Wanted to post a free article anyone could access. Lots of good information, multiple lines of evidence, and interesting soviet history of the dam in the actual article Reuters is citing.

    • GarbageShootAlt@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      The argument offered by the article for the “Did Russia or Ukraine do it?” question is literally no better than “trust me bro, they had the plans, don’t worry about the motive.”

  • GarbageShootAlt@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    This is an obnoxious bait-and-switch. They make a false dichotomy out of “Either Russia did it or it was an accident” and then correctly disprove it being an accident while not establishing any particular reason beyond Russia also having the plans for the dam to establish it was Russia who did it in their own held territory and not Ukraine. It’s exactly as miserable a level of journalism as one has come to expect of the NYT.

    Incidentally, here’s an article from a few months ago about the Ukrainian military’s contingency to blow up the dam and seemingly already inflicting a little bit of damage to test being able to destroy it more completely. Does this prove that Ukraine did it? Of course not, but there is a burden of proof to establishing one side probably did it and OP’s article does not even conceive of reaching that burden of proof in the case of Russia being the culprit.