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Jesus Christ, these maniacs might get us all killed.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10762143/Ukraine-war-Russian-state-TV-says-nuclear-strike-probable-losing.html
Russia's state TV tells viewers 'we're all going to die someday': Nuclear war is 'most probable outcome', viewers are told, 'but we will go to heaven while they simply croak'
Vladimir Putin will launch an all-out nuclear war on the West rather than accept defeat in Ukraine, Russia's chief propagandists have declared, in just the latest chilling threat coming from Moscow.
Margarita Simonyan, editor of state broadcaster RT and one of the Kremlin's highest-profile mouthpieces, declared on TV last night that the idea of Putin pressing the red button is 'more probable' than the idea that he will allow Russia to lose the war.
'Either we lose in Ukraine,' she said, 'or the Third World War starts. I think World War Three is more realistic, knowing us, knowing our leader.
The most incredible outcome, that all this will end with a nuclear strike, seems more probable to me than the other course of events.
'This is to my horror on one hand,' she told a panel of experts shifting nervously in their seats, 'but on the other hand, it is what it is. We will go to heaven, while they will simply croak... We're all going to die someday.'
Simonyan's calm imagining of nuclear holocaust is just the latest threat issued from the top levels of the Russian state, after fellow propagandist Vladimir Solovyov, foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, and Putin himself issued threats in the last 48 hours.
The US and UK have dismissed such rhetoric as bluster but the increasing frequency of the threats coupled with the failures of Russia's military will raise fears that a Cold War-style standoff is now a realistic possibility before the war in Ukraine ends.
It comes after Russia successfully test-launched its latest nuclear missile - Sarmat 2 - last week, with Putin boasting it can strike targets anywhere on earth and cannot be stopped by any current missile defenses.
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Wingus Dingus
(8,049 posts)Sorry to anyone who is a decent Russian, I'm sure they're out there, but your country is a giant flaming boil on the world's ass that never heals and only gets worse over the decades.
maxsolomon
(32,992 posts)They live in a Petro-Autocracy where dissent is brutally repressed and democracy is a sick joke.
There are decent North Koreans, decent Saudis, decent Iranians, decent Afghanis. All living under brutal state repression. We have to be willing to embrace those people.
maxsolomon
(32,992 posts)Their confidence in an afterlife where the righteous are rewarded makes them devalue the only life we are sure we get to experience.
One way or another, Russia WILL lose this war. They've already lost so much, far beyond the 20,000 Russian soldier lives they've wasted so far. If they succeed in taking a devastated, emptied-out Novorossiya from Ukraine, it will be decades before the punishment for that annexation ends.
Journeyman
(15,001 posts)This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a blustering whimper from hollow men.
highplainsdem
(48,731 posts)FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)Were shutting them down and they know it, why talk this trash otherwise?
Hekate
(90,202 posts)BWdem4life
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Xolodno
(6,341 posts)Sure, it could just be a ruse. But I thought Putin invading was going to be a ruse as well.
Preparing your population for a nuclear exchange should not be taken lightly.
ck4829
(34,977 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,444 posts)WarGamer
(12,106 posts)ck4829
(34,977 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,651 posts)And the planet.