It’s a little music that is rising in Russia, with an increasingly disturbing insistence: the trivialization of the nuclear threat, a practice that had never reached such a level, even during the Soviet period. Throughout talk shows and television news, presenters and guests discuss the ability of Russian weapons to destroy any adversary.
On Monday, May 2, Channel One star presenter Dmitry Kiselev shows an animation that, while defying all laws of physics, promises the UK will be wiped off the map by a tsunami caused by the explosion of the Poseidon nuclear missile drone. Survivors would be exposed “at extreme doses of radiation”.
A few days earlier, on a competing channel, the time needed for the latest missile to hit the capitals was calculated “countries that supply the most weapons to Ukraine” – 106 seconds to reach Berlin, 200 seconds to Paris, 202 seconds to London. “It is impossible to intercept, they will not even have time to turn around”, enthused the expert on set.
‘Sink’ the UK
These warnings follow like waves the demonstrations of force organized by the power. April 20 is the test firing of a Sarmat ballistic missile. This should only be deployed in the fall, but it should “Make think twice about those who try to threaten our country with raging and aggressive rhetoric,” warns President Vladimir Putin, who speaks of a weapon “without equal”. Television, for its part, already evokes, in the process, the possibility of ” to flow “ the United Kingdom.
The missile tests « invincible”, in the words of President Putin, have become routine
It is also, more recently, the overflight of Moscow, noticed on Wednesday by BFM-TV, of the Ilyouchine Il-80 Maxdome, a command plane adapted to a nuclear conflict. This device, which had not been seen since 2010, will probably be deployed during the May 9 military parade.
More worryingly, on the same day, Moscow indicated that it had simulated the firing of nuclear-capable missiles in the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, where Iskander-type weapons carrying nuclear warheads have been deployed since 2016. The choice of this territory on the Baltic Sea is not innocent, while Sweden and Finland could announce their intention to join NATO in the days or weeks to come. Violations of the airspace of these countries have also been observed in recent days, and a poster campaign in the streets of Moscow recalls the “Support for Nazism” of Swedish personalities.
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