The Insanity of Zelenskyy Attacking A Nuclear Plant

Zelenskyy and his government are taking insanity to an entirely new level. A government has no right to gamble with nuclear catastrophe. That principle is absolute, and it does not bend for the sympathetic. It does not bend because the country in question was invaded. After all, it started it all by persecuting its own people who happen to be Russian long before the Russians attacked. Everyone in the West seems to want to forget that fact.

On September 17, a drone struck the cooling tower serving reactor Unit No. 1 at Russia’s Kursk nuclear-power complex. The reactor was operating at full power. According to information supplied to the International Atomic Energy Agency, the strike fortunately caused minor damage, meaning the human race was spared a nuclear disaster. But Zaporizhzhia, another nuclear plant that has also been attacked, lost its sole external power line before emergency diesel was replenished.

This was among the most reckless operations conducted by Zelenskyy’s government. Here we have a man who used to play piano with his penus in public (yes, he was a comedian) who is gambling with the safety of humanity, a political terrorist or Nazi or mentally unstable leader who has the support of Trump, before him Biden, who wholeheartedly supported Zelenskyy, and all the current leaders of Europe. All of them are severely deranged, supporting war in the 21st Century that is attacking the foundations of civilization’s core structures, energy, and food. These politicians are reckless beyond words. They are playing with nuclear madness.

The most dangerous kind of leader is someone who believes his cause puts him beyond ordinary moral limits—who mistakes recklessness for courage, treats millions of civilians as abstractions, and assumes catastrophe will always happen to someone else. It may not be clinical insanity. It is something colder: power without restraint, conviction without conscience, and desperation willing to gamble with lives that are not one’s own.

Oil refineries, fuel depots, ammunition factories, airfields, and railway junctions are conventional military or dual-use targets. A nuclear power station belongs in a separate category entirely. Zelenskyy is commander in chief, and his administration has actively promoted Ukraine’s long-range campaign inside Russia.

The Kursk incident also fits a pattern of widening escalation. Zelenskyy’s government increasingly seems to believe that Ukraine’s desperate circumstances can justify every expansion of the war, even the ending of life on our planet via a nuclear war. That logic has no natural stopping point. Actually, there is no logic, just supreme ugliness from a madman ex-comedian who used to play piano in public with his penus. And the European leaders love him. And the press and the world are already absorbing the attack as another ordinary event in the war.

It is not ordinary. It is civilizational insanity. And it’s not even the first time. In August of 2025, there was a similar attack against the nuclear plant. Zelenskyy obviously is willing to risk a nuclear disaster to provoke Russia into escalation, hoping NATO will intervene more directly. This is the most dangerous game a modern leader could play, and everyone who supports him is playing at the same insane table.

By attacking a nuclear power station inside Russian territory, they have attacked not only Russia but the entire world. A strike on such a facility risks unleashing a catastrophic nuclear meltdown, threatening millions of lives across borders. Any sane political leadership would condemn this act immediately. Instead, Western governments continue funneling money and weapons into the hands of Kyiv’s delusional leadership. If the world had any sense, Ukraine would be cut off entirely—politically, militarily, and financially—for endangering all of humanity with such recklessness.

When Washington overthrew the pro-Russian Ukrainian
government in 2014 and installed an anti-Russian regime,
Crimea and Donbas voted almost 100% to be reunited with Russia.

It’s funny that people are terrified that artificial intelligence might one day escape human control and destroy civilization. Meanwhile, Western political leaders are already authorizing weapons, escalation, and proxy warfare around operating nuclear reactors. The immediate existential danger is not a machine developing too much intelligence. It is political leaders displaying outright insanity.

AI did not launch that drone at the nuclear plant. AI did not decide that attacking near a nuclear plant was an acceptable risk. Human beings made those decisions—politicians insulated from the consequences, gambling with lives that are not their own.

They call it strategy. They call it deterrence. They call it defending democracy. But when leaders knowingly play military games around nuclear reactors, the honest word is insanity. The machines are not playing Russian roulette with humanity. Our politicians are. The honest word is insanity.

Putin is a pussy and should have been much more aggressive. Paul Craig Roberts, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration and an associate editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, has been saying so for years. He says Putin avoids the fact that the West has gone to war against Russia. So the blame for this attack sits heavily on the shoulders of the Americans and NATO. Trump bullshitted everyone, saying he would bring peace when he only brings war.

In 2014, when all the trouble started in Ukraine, it was Barack Obama who was president, and the betrayal of Russia started in the Bush era when they broke promises about not expanding NATO into Russia’s backyard. The famous assurance was made on February 9, 1990, during George H. W. Bush’s presidency.

U.S. Secretary of State James Baker told Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that if a reunified Germany remained in NATO, NATO’s military jurisdiction would move “not one inch eastward.” German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher had publicly proposed the same general principle on January 31, 1990, and Chancellor Helmut Kohl reinforced it to Gorbachev on February 10. Declassified records document numerous similar Western assurances.

Betrayal does not stop being betrayal because lawyers failed to make the agreement a treaty. Gorbachev accepted German reunification inside NATO and dismantled the Soviet military position in Eastern Europe after receiving repeated assurances that Western power would not advance eastward. The West later used the absence of a signature as permission to do precisely that. It may have been legally defensible; morally and strategically, it was a betrayal.

That betrayal destroyed the trust that ended the Cold War and helped build the road to Ukraine, attacks around nuclear installations, and the possibility of nuclear war. It does not justify every subsequent Russian action—but pretending NATO’s broken assurances had no consequences is historical dishonesty. Political insanity runs deep in the West.