A Potential Looming Disaster in Ukraine

• Author: Bryan Miller
• Posted: 2024-05-05

A Potential Looming Disaster in Ukraine

The nation of Ukraine is a very large nation that's full of 44 million people. More accurately, 44 million innocent people. Innocent people who are now suffering from an invasion at the hands of a war criminal hellbent on overthrowing its sovereign government and intimidating (if not maliciously injuring and killing) its citizens. But do you know what else is in Ukraine? Chernobyl, home of one of the worst nuclear disasters in this planet's history. The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is in the north of Ukraine, right above Kiev, and that's where a lot of the fighting is targeted. Not only Russian fighting and firing, but also a lot of retaliation from Ukrainians and allies. A literal war and a nuclear reactor are not a good mix, to be sure, and the western media has been sounding the horn over a potential disaster since the invasion began.

According to American media, if Russia bombs Chernobyl, there will be a huge nuclear disaster, explosions, and millions of people dead. To say that this would be a disaster is to downplay the word. It would be a catastrophe of world-changing significance. However, the key phrase there is "this would be." You see, according to LiveScience and other scientific publications, things aren't nearly as dire as what the media is making them out to be.

Of course, Russia invaded an innocent people, and that alone is tragic enough. That alone is literally disastrous for the lives of millions. Though when it comes to Chernobyl, its four reactors have long been decommissioned, and prior to the invasion further elements were shut down. On site four, home of the famous disaster decades previous, the material is encased in a sarcophagus far below ground, and most independent experts suggest that it is very unlikely even a direct attack would harm it.

If it was harmed, radioactive material would become airborne, but scientists do not believe this would happen to the extent people would die from nuclear fallout. The disaster of war is a big enough issue to fret over and to feel over. Adding hyperbolic potential nuclear explosions to the midst doesn't do anyone any good.

The Absolute State of Corporate Media

Russia is a propaganda state and has been for decades. There is not one piece of news coming out of Russia that in any way can be trusted. That said, it's not as if western media has been delivering truthful takes of the invasion of Ukraine over these past two weeks either. America's corporate media, for instance, absolutely disavowed claims of biological labs in Ukraine, calling it Russian propaganda, before a day later admitting to their existence. Rather than apologizing for the misinformation, or claiming it was a mistake, the corporate media just moves on to the next talking point, and the regular people of the world who wish to be informed are confused and tired of being jerked in a new direction every time it suits the needs of a profit-hungry company.

The gist here is that, according to America's mass media structure, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster 2.0 was going to definitely happen, and Putin had specifically bombed the site in order to make that happen. America said this happened, Russia said it did not. Therefore, everyone was bracing for a nuclear disaster of epic proportions because we know Russia's the bad guy here, lying about it, and America's being truthful. Though as it turns out, the American media was also wrong about this. Misinformation or intentionally lying, no one really knows. All people do know is that the media has not apologized for the scary misinformation. They've simply moved on.

This seems to be the state that western corporate media is in now. They push whatever they want to for a headline, the more sensational the better, and if and when it ends up being wrong, they just move on seamlessly to the next story.

According to independent reports flooding from the ground in Ukraine, not owned by Russia or America, there is a potential looming disaster at Chernobyl, but each side has enough sense not to fire directly on the site. Not to mention that most of the site has been deactivated. This in no way means that a disaster is now impossible, but it does go to show that what the media want you to believe and the truth of a matter are often very conflicting and in stark contrast.