“half of America still doesn’t want to react when Russian tanks and missiles are raining down in Eastern Europe AND threatening to nuke America.”
Not sure what you’re getting at, old bean. Would most people here want the USA to put boots on the ground even if Russian tanks rolled into Poland or Lithuania? Course not.
Did anybody change their tune in April after Russian TV ramped up the talk about nuking the USA?
Threats to attack America were debated on Rossyia 1 several weeks ago. The best place to grab the footage is #JuliaDavisNews (The Daily Beast’s resident Russian telly addict) on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1517007534128775168
Julia Davis’ channel is really worth keeping an eye on. Some of the stuff from Russian TV comes from a show with two presenting regulars also in the State Duma, with the station adhering to an editorial briefing from the Kremlin.
Until they realised people were recording their shows and putting entire segments of it up on social media they were very unguarded about committing genocide, forced relocations, forced re-education, collective punishment, starting a nuclear war, and even had a half hour session digging into the Putin/Lukashenko maps of the coming invasion of the Baltic states.
2nd March: four Russian warplanes (two SU 27s and two SU 24s) with two of them apparently carrying nuclear arms, violated Swedish airspace over the Baltic Sea, east of Gotland.
Mere days earlier: Russian TV pundits were walking the Russian audience through a map of nuclear-backed invasions of islands in the Baltic, including Gotland.
It’s a bloody good psyops tactic, I’ll give them that. Say something completely outlandish, and within 48 hours do something that makes that outlandish discussion suddenly look very plausible.
Discussion on the invasion of Lithuania and squaring up to take on all of NATO:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1541178759654653960
Russia is very easily triggered by the mere suggestion of a NATO expansion eastward. But Russia must know that past NATO expansion has never actually resulted in any military threat - real or implied - being made against Russia. All Russia has to do to avoid ANY such threat ever being levelled at it, is DON’T EVEN JOKE ABOUT INVADING ITS BALTIC NEIGHBORS.
Baltic states can see what happened to Ukraine, and they can watch a TV station where the Duma guests and presenters are practically gushing with enthusiasm for Baltic invasions... and the Baltics are supposed to NOT be triggered by that because that’d offend Russia. Go figure.