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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 defences.
More Russian bluster.
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So they are admitting they are losing and have nothing but bluster.
Putin’s diplomatic corps has been warning the West about continued arming of the Ukraine. Poland is ripe for the kind of strikes Putin has warned. People here think Putin/Russia will not escalate matters by ordering the destruction of a artillery plant or aircraft factory - that destruction will require a new level of firepower unleashed to accomplish destruction.
My only question is whether Russia attacks a few places in one or two countries where the aid comes thru, or if they will destroy the means of production across dozens of sites in a dozen EU states.
I really think that Russia is going to start hitting the means of military production at the same time they hit the foreign military aid.
This is going to cause hundreds of thousands of collateral death to ensure destructive punch to destroy stuff, especially if it is in built up population centers.