Within minutes of his speech, Russian flights out of the country were fully booked amd the stock market tumbled further.
Anyone in Russia with a good education and moderate wealth is getting out of Dodge.
As Goebbels said, there’s no point trying to win over the wealthy intelligentsia, because they’ll see thru it.
The best propaganda must be emotional and geared towards the thick, gullible, poor majority. Mirror arguments that can’t be refuted by the blindfolded consumer.
So Putin claims that the west is threatening Russia with nukes after six months of his own Duma talking about nuking the West.
Anyone in Russia who wanted to hear even one western threat of use of nuclear, would find nothing. Because it never happened. Also, if if it had happened, Russian media would be playing it on loop to prove their argument.
The only reason they won’t stop banging on about the nukes is, they’re tonto enough to go nuclear to avoid a complete rout in Ukraine, but not brave enough to admit that they’re using nuclear blackmail BECAUSE their land grab is floundering.
Smart, rich Russians figured that out months ago and that’s one reason why the Russian state propaganda channels have lost so many viewers... And why the planes are going to be rammed to capacity over the next few days.
Just yesterday their biggest state propagandists lamented on TV that Russia should have nuked Queen Elizabeth’s funeral so they could have gotten all the western leadership in one go.
I guess “threatening with nukes” is some western commentators saying that if Russia really did this insane thing they’d get nuked back.