Posted on 04/27/2022 3:11:56 PM PDT by dennisw
Russian state TV host Vladimir Solovyov threatened the annihilation of the United Kingdom on Wednesday with the Sarmat, Russia’s newest ballistic missile.
“One Sarmat means minus one Great Britain,” Moscow mouthpiece Vladimir Solovyov said on state TV. “Because they’ve gotten totally boorish.”
Solovyov — occasionally called “Putin’s voice” for his close ties to the strongman — is the same TV presenter at the center of a debunked assassination attempt, in which the Kremlin said neo-nazis armed with video games planned to kill the Kremlin lackey.
Solovyov made the statement from behind a laptop emblazoned with the letter “Z,” which has become shorthand for support of Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
This isn’t the first time Putin’s propagandists cavalierly considered global thermonuclear war. Last week, after the first successful test of the Sarmat’s basic flight capabilities, a pair of state TV hosts chuckled over the prospect of wiping out “a good city” like New York.
“If 7.5 megatons will be delivered to the territory of our so-called [American] partners — the word ‘partner’ is very important — then objects like the city of New York, a good city but it would be gone,” one host said.
“Completely gone, with one rocket. Completely, I mean completely,” he went on, laughing. “So it’s better we don’t. Americans always feared our heavy rockets.”
Russian state TV host Vladimir Solovyov threatened the annihilation of the United Kingdom.
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In the Sarmat’s initial tests, the missile struck mock targets over 3,000 miles away, a fraction of the roughly 10,000 mile range it is expected to have as an intercontinental ballistic missile.
US officials have called the nuclear threats saber-rattling, and noted the Sarmat test was planned ahead of time — and that Russia had notified the US — as both nations are treaty-bound to do.
“Russia properly notified the United States under its New START obligations that it planned to test this ICBM,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said following the test last week. “Such testing is routine. It was not a surprise. We did not deem the test to be a threat to the United States or its allies.”
Ruh Roh!
Nowadays, Rooskies might nuke you, because they think you are being boorish.
That’s OK - some people here on FR are ready to wipe out Russia with nukes as well.
Thank God none of them are close to power, probably like stupid Russian broadcasters.
And the people critical of the premise did miss the British rhetoric towards Russia. What the UK is doing in Ukraine is loathsome and they need to pay for it.
So smug are people that they don’t think Vlad will launch? It’s almost the perfect storm!
Sigh. He’s a TV news anchor. He has no power. And what he said is no different than what CNN or MSNBC anchors have said about Trump and his supporters for years now. Was that earth-shattering news? 🤣
Other than the people of Ukraine themselves, who have been caught in the crossfire, this has been nothing more than a battle of rhetoric between the “West” (unelected bureaucrats and their media lapdogs) and the Rooskies which at least admit to being unelected. No latte-sipping British journalist need fear the guy with the Z on his laptop.
Not wrong about the UK being boorish.
Russians just having fun—they will nuke no one. BUT Then I never thought they would invade Ukraine. I believe Putin is dying and he wants to leave a legacy behind of a Catherine the Great’s Russian Empire—a New Russia. He’s going to his reward so threats mean little to him. But if War is what the west wants—he will give it to them. Yes, Brits can be Boorish.
Yes, it is so loathsome to help a country defend itself against a foreign invasion.
There are plenty of people on this site who think Putin would back down if NATO were to get involved. They accuse the pragmatic of being for Putin and think you should support a massive attack against Moscow because Putin would stand down and never use his ICBMs.
I am talking about advising Ukrainians to torture POWs and staging massacres for propaganda purposes.
And within seconds St Petersburg and Moscow would be vaporized,
These Russian morons aren’t playing with a full deck.
Oh yeah?
Well we’ll call the Russians racist.
So there. :)
Russian state TV threatens to wipe out ‘Boris’ UK with ballistic missile
there fixed it
They “need” to pay for it? Gimme a break, Vlad. Go home to your babushka wearing frumpy old wife.
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