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Russia Threatens to Nuke Britain, France, and Germany
PJ Media ^ | 5/1/2022 | Robert Spencer

Posted on 05/01/2022 4:46:03 PM PDT by Signalman

Russia threatened a dramatic escalation of its war in Ukraine Thursday when Russia’s Channel One featured a video depicting Russian missiles reaching Berlin, Paris, and London.

According to the UK’s Express, Channel One’s 60 Minutes program, one of the most popular TV shows in Russia, featured “the chairman of the nationalist Rodina party, Aleksey Zhuravlyov,” who “suggested Russia could launch a Sarmat missile attack on the UK.” This was not, however, Zhuravlyov’s eccentric view: “Producers then cut to a map of Kaliningrad and seemed to suggest that missiles could be launched from the Russian enclave between Poland, Lithuania and the Baltic Sea.”

Zhuravlyov declared: “One Sarmat [missile] and that’s it – the British Isles are no more.” The show’s cohost, Evgeny Popov, responded: “No one will survive in this war when you propose the strike with a Sarmat. Do you understand that no one will survive? No one on the planet.” Zhuravlyov, however, was undeterred, saying optimistically that “we’ll start with a blank slate,” and boasting that Russian missiles “can’t be intercepted. Their abilities are limited. They say they can shoot it down, we’ll see about that.”

The show’s other host, Popov’s wife Olga Skabeyeva, then added: “Sarmats are not in Kaliningrad yet. From Kaliningrad to Berlin is 106 seconds, from Kaliningrad to Paris is 200 seconds. You’re interested in London, 202 seconds to London.” Zhuravlyov responded happily: “They need to be shown this picture. ‘Guys, look at this picture — count the seconds, can you make it? Hello, it’s already here.’ That’s the way. Let them think about it. Get a stopwatch, count [to] 220 seconds. That’s how you talk to them, they don’t understand anything else.”

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To: A_Former_Democrat
Sooner rather than later the non-communist world is going to have to deal with the communists

Yes, sooner or later the Non-Communist World will have to deal with the Communist American Progressive Socialist Democrats and the Communist Chinese Oligarchs that own them.

41 posted on 05/01/2022 5:09:33 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Magnum44

nicetry neoCON. We fell in line with the insane globalists under moron W Bush and we wont fall for the MIC’s lust for war again


42 posted on 05/01/2022 5:10:46 PM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: A_Former_Democrat

Look, we need to get with the program. We really can not go around calling other countries communist until we stop our own that is tryng to become a lot like communist China.

It is embarrassing that we are blind about what has happened to America. People who came here to get away from being communists have been pointing out that they see the same things happening here that happened in the countries they left.

It was never our job to tell other countries how to live. WE need to take care of our own and deal with that to have a leg to stand on .


43 posted on 05/01/2022 5:11:10 PM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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To: dljordan

The implication is all Commies

More than happy to do my part and take a few out


44 posted on 05/01/2022 5:12:27 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (#LeaveTheGOP. Pass it on Liberty Valance Time. The point of a gun is the only law they understan)
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To: ought-six
Well, if the guy isn’t “disappeared” within the next 48 hours, I think we can assume that Vlad is okay with the rhetoric.

You attribute far more power to Putin than is perhaps warranted, at least according to this 2019 article:

Ekaterina Schulmann is a political scientist in Moscow and a member of Mr. Putin’s Council for Civil Society and Human Rights who challenged the president over the persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses at the December meeting in the Kremlin. She said Mr. Putin’s grip on the country had been vastly exaggerated by both supporters and opponents.

“This is not a personally run empire but a huge and difficult-to-manage bureaucratic machine with its own internal rules and principles,” she said. “It happens time and again that the president says something, and then nothing or the opposite happens.”

A plethora of bureaucratic and political forces both reinforce and sap the president’s power: the security services, the Russian Orthodox Church, billionaire oligarchs, local officials and others, each with its own sometimes competing and sometimes overlapping interests. Mr. Putin has to manage them as best he can, but he doesn’t control everything they each do.

One analyst is even more blunt about Mr. Putin and the state he presides over. “The system is dysfunctional,” said Andrew Wood, a former British ambassador to Moscow and now an associate fellow at Chatham House, a research organization in London. “No one man could possibly control everything.”

To most Westerners, accustomed to seeing Mr. Putin strutting in front of TV cameras and projecting an aura of effortless command, such statements can sound incredible. It is true that in high-prestige matters of state, like hosting the Olympic Games or the World Cup soccer tournament, or building a bridge to Crimea, Mr. Putin has made the system act on his commands. The same is true for matters that ensure his grip on power, like cracking down on disobedient oligarchs and political opponents.

And after he came to power at the end of 1999, he effectively curbed the conspicuous disorder and noisy infighting that under his frequently drunk predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, left Russia with a state that barely functioned.

But many projects he has backed, like a critical bridge over the Amur River between Russia and China, and a high-profile undertaking to build a highway between Moscow and St. Petersburg, have stalled.

There are limits to just how much time and political capital Mr. Putin can invest in prodding corrupt or incompetent officials and contractors to do as they are told.

The construction of a new rocket launch center in the Russian Far East, pushed by Mr. Putin as “one of modern Russia’s biggest and most ambitious projects,” is taking years longer than planned, slowed by corruption, strikes by unpaid workers and other setbacks. The prosecutor general’s office in Moscow says that more than $150 million has been stolen from the project, which it said had been marred by 17,000 legal violations by more than 1,000 people.

This stark mismatch between Mr. Putin’s words and the system’s actions was on display again last month when the police in Moscow arrested Michael Calvey, the American founder of one of the oldest and biggest Russia-focused investment funds, on fraud charges after a dispute with a rival over control of a Russian bank.

Mr. Calvey’s arrest, on charges that could result in up to 10 years in prison, was at odds with repeated statements by Mr. Putin that Russia must attract foreign investors and keep law-enforcement agencies from meddling in business disputes.

Dmitri Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, insisted that Mr. Putin had no prior knowledge of Mr. Calvey’s detention, but no one outside the president’s innermost circle can be sure.

Aleksei Kudrin, a liberal-minded old friend of Mr. Putin’s from St. Petersburg and his former finance minister, complained that the arrest “fully disregards the directives of the president” and had created an “emergency for the economy.”

Mr. Kudrin’s observation drew widespread scorn. Critics of Mr. Putin accused the former minister of deluding himself with the idea that the president was not responsible for Mr. Calvey’s troubles and countless other examples of Russian law enforcement run amok.

Some recalled how at the height of murderous purges in the 1930s, many of Stalin’s acolytes refused to believe that the Soviet dictator knew what was going on — which he clearly did, since he signed off on lists of people to be executed — and blamed out-of-control underlings.

But Russia today, Ms. Schulmann said, resembles not so much the rigidly regimented country ruled by Stalin as the dilapidated autocracy of Russia in the early 19th century. The ruler at the time, Czar Nicholas I, presided over corrupt civilian and military bureaucracies that expanded Russian territory, led the country into a disastrous war in Crimea and drove the economy into a stagnant dead end.

Nicholas knew the limits of his power: “It is not I who rule Russia,” he complained. “It is the 30,000 clerks.” The only real difference now, Ms. Schulmann said, is that “clerks,” or bureaucrats, now number over a million and a half.

“It is a great illusion that you just need to reach the leader and make him listen and everything will change,” she added. “This is not how it happens.”

The illusion, however, is largely a result of the Kremlin’s own propaganda about the man at the top of what it calls the “power vertical.”

45 posted on 05/01/2022 5:12:27 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007 (There is nothing new under the sun.)
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To: BiglyCommentary

no one is stopping you from joining the Ukraine army. Have at it tough guy


46 posted on 05/01/2022 5:12:38 PM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: MercyFlush
I imagine your figures are fairly accurate now.

But 55-60 years ago China was still almost all small farmers and small scale agriculture. Still, there were a few members of the Chinese Politburo that were appalled at such rhetoric. They just did not say much about it.

47 posted on 05/01/2022 5:14:13 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: fhayek

Ever notice how Putin never threatened President Trump?

Stolen elections and RINO complicity have consequences.


48 posted on 05/01/2022 5:14:13 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: imabadboy99

I mention Neville chamberlain, and lookie who comes a callin....


49 posted on 05/01/2022 5:14:17 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Signalman

Randy Newman’s “Political Science” was prescient:

No one likes us, I don’t know why
We may not be perfect, but heaven knows we try
But all around even our old friends put us down
Let’s drop the big one and see what happens

We give them money, but are they grateful?
No, they’re spiteful and they’re hateful
They don’t respect us, so let’s surprise them
We’ll drop the big one and pulverize them


50 posted on 05/01/2022 5:15:15 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: imabadboy99

You don’t really think you’re changing anyone’s opinion with a post like that, do you?


51 posted on 05/01/2022 5:15:50 PM PDT by MercyFlush (The Soviet Empire is right now doing a dead cat bounce.)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

There is a lot of bloviating really non credible information meant to inflame people being posted.

It is ridiculous.


52 posted on 05/01/2022 5:16:05 PM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

Very interesting read.


53 posted on 05/01/2022 5:16:30 PM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: Magnum44

Kinzinger is that you?


54 posted on 05/01/2022 5:17:02 PM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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To: Signalman

OK, Puti, but before you see the mushroom, Russia will be nuked back to the dark ages. Kingdom of nothing!


55 posted on 05/01/2022 5:19:38 PM PDT by arizonarick
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To: ammodotcom

I’ve been to Paterson, when my navigation system took me on a detour. I’m never coming back.


56 posted on 05/01/2022 5:19:48 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: Magnum44

This isn’t WWII and we don’t need WWIII General Hotshot.


57 posted on 05/01/2022 5:21:48 PM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

“You attribute far more power to Putin than is perhaps warranted...”

Putin and his inner circle.

“Alexander Litvinenko, and Sergei and Yulia Skripal may disagree with you.


58 posted on 05/01/2022 5:23:43 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: dforest

Sure, if that makes you happy. Send all your comments to my secretary.


59 posted on 05/01/2022 5:24:17 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: dforest

Who really cares what you want? Sorry, not me.

And if you think we have any control over Putin starting WWIII, you’re dumber than I gave you credit for.


60 posted on 05/01/2022 5:26:56 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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