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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“The implication is all Commies”
They’re everywhere.
“Russia can only deal with NATO by either acting like a civilized country, going to war, or surrendering”
Well, they tried that intently for years leading up to 2/24/22. NATO refused. So, who is the civilized country??
Russia was on path to being civilized and then the Russians elected Putin who brought back the Cold War.
Some people are afraid of the future and Putin is one of them.
I wonder if the surviving cockroaches will evolve and fall under the control of their own roach Obama?
“Russia was on path to being civilized and then the Russians elected Putin who brought back the Cold War.”
I’m not sure what planet you live on. But on my planet (Earth) I look at years of outlandish accusations against the Russians by the media and our government with creative and made-up claims of sadistic behavior and interference by the Russians, years of NATO expansion from 12 to 30 nations up to the doorstep of Russia, the totally bizarre launch of the government’s case against a sitting president for Russia collusion by a totally so-called unbiased independent investigator, who by the way, found nothing and to the outlandish report of Russian women peeing on the president’s bed. There are many more, but I won’t bore you with them.
And you can honestly say these constant accusations do not send a well-defined message to the Russians?? If not then you are very naive or just plain dumb (or both).
At least Putin stands up for his country which is more than one can say about our current government which is led by a so-called president who can’t string words together to make a coherent thought!
WOW. What blinders you have on there.
Russia at one point was offered a path to membership in NATO and the EU and they declined both. Thus they abdicated any potential voice in the internal affairs and membership in both organizations.
As it stands Russia does not get a veto on who gets to join NATO anymore than the Democrats get to tell Republicans who can run as the GOP nominee for President.
Too bad, so sad. Suck rocks. Pound sand, etc.
“At least Putin stands up for his country”
I don’t mind the man standing up for his country. But invading someone else’s country for a shifting set of vague reasons is not his call. He’s also lost any vestige of credibility with this last nuttiness of claiming Hitler was a Jew therefore it’s okay to kill Jews.
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