Executive Summary:
Russians, who like to brag, are starting to brag again. RT editor-in-chief Simonyan said that Russia could destroy the United States in an hour. In recent years, bragging and intimidation have become Russia's most powerful weapons. Civilized societies cannot accept and fear the nuclear blackmail of rogue states, and Russia is incapable of carrying out nuclear blackmail.
1. Russians, who like to brag, are starting to brag again. RT editor-in-chief Simonyan said that Russia could destroy the United States in an hour.
Margarita Simonyan, a prominent Kremlin propagandist and host and editor-in-chief of the Kremlin-backed RT radio and television company, said in a clip on Russian state television that "we are the only country in the world that can destroy the United States in an hour" as the war in Ukraine continues.
Russia will be able to destroy the United States "within an hour," the latest belligerent threat from Russia's state-controlled media and the latest blown by the Russians.
Russian state television often broadcasts inflammatory rhetoric to inflame populist sentiment in Russia in an effort to bolster Russian support for Putin's war in Ukraine. The television station has repeatedly hinted at a nuclear confrontation with the United States, which is an important ally of Ukraine in the war against Russia. Relations between Washington and Moscow have been tense in the nearly two years of the war in Ukraine, and thanks to the support led by the United States, the prospects for Russia to end the conflict with victory or maintain the occupation of Ukrainian territory to achieve reconciliation with Ukraine are very slim.
Simonyan, RT's editor-in-chief and host, has made a name for himself in Russia for his bold remarks on the war in Ukraine, becoming a staunch supporter of Putin's war in Ukraine, so he is quite loved or appreciated by Putin. So much so that in some meetings and events presided over by Putin, Simonyan often appears.
2. In recent years, bragging and intimidation have become Russia's most powerful weapons.
The United States and other countries that supply weapons to Ukraine have long feared that if Ukraine is defeated, Russia will attack Eastern Europe. Since some countries in Eastern Europe have joined NATO, a full-scale war between NATO and Russia will be inevitable at that time. But it has also led to Russia's escalating military aid to Ukraine from Europe and the United States, often reacting in a gaffe and anger, and intimidating the West by constantly bragging and making big statements.
RT first boasted of cowhide in 2019. At that time, the Russian-Ukrainian war had not yet broken out, but Russian state television broadcast a list of US military facilities, saying that Moscow would target them in a nuclear strike.
For example, in the fall of 2022, shortly after Russia annexed the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhia regions of southern and eastern Ukraine, the Kremlin said that these territories belonged to Moscow and that if the West provided Ukraine with weapons to strike these Russian territories, Russia would send nuclear weapons to donors.
In May 2022, Medvedev bragged in Russia's state media about intimidating the United States as a result of the U.S.-led disruption of Russia's SWIFT international payment channel, saying that Russia only needed four missiles to destroy the east and west coasts of the United States. Since then, a Russian political commentator has also said in mid-2023 that if the United States breaks through Russia's bottom line to provide Ukraine with ATACMS missiles, the war in Ukraine will escalate into a nuclear conflict, and the United States may fall into the "crosshairs" of the war in Ukraine.
Another host on Russian state television, Vladimir Solovyov, and one of the most recognizable figures in the Kremlin-backed media, blew out even bigger cowhides in early January 2024 to intimidate the West by saying that Russia would attack NATO headquarters supporting Ukraine's war efforts. Trigger a wider war.
In mid-January 2024, Dmitry Medvedev, former Russian president and deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, said that if Ukraine used weapons supplied by the United States or NATO to attack missile launch sites on Russian territory, it could trigger a nuclear response from the Kremlin.
Once Russia turns on the nuclear attack mode, it can be predicted that the West, led by the United States, will definitely preemptively launch a nuclear strike on all the places where Russia can launch nuclear weapons on land, on the water, and under water, which will undoubtedly lead to a catastrophe for mankind. But if civilized society gives in to the nuclear threat, more nuclear-armed states that are more rogue than Russia will use nuclear threats and nuclear blackmail, which will eventually lead to great catastrophe for mankind.
We know that together Russia and the United States have about 90% of the world's nuclear warheads.
Third, it is impossible for a civilized society to accept and fear the nuclear blackmail of rogue states, and Russia is incapable of carrying out nuclear blackmail.
I don't think it is possible for a civilized society to accept and fear the nuclear blackmail of rogue states. In fact, it is only blackmail, because although the rogue state has nuclear weapons, in the face of the air defense, early warning network and nuclear strike force of developed countries that are many generations ahead, if Russia presses the nuclear button, it must be Russia that destroys first.
In fact, the nuclear blackmail of the Russians is all about talking big and bragging. Saburo asks Margarita Simonyan the following three questions to prove this.
First, Russia, which has more than 140 million people, has lost more than half of its weapons and equipment and nearly 400,000 soldiers in two years, and has not yet taken over Ukraine with more than 30 million people. After all, you yourself said on February 24, 2022 that your torrent of steel will take Ukraine in a week.
From Medvedev bragging that Europeans will not be able to survive the winter of 2022 if they do not supply gas to Europe, to Solovyov boasting that if Britain dares to provide Ukraine with Storm video missiles, Russia will nuclearize England. The Europeans have rejected Russian gas, the indoor temperature is much warmer than in Moscow this winter, and the British Storm Audiovisual missiles have wiped out more than half of the Black Sea Fleet's assets, and London is still doing well.
Third, did you brag about your own original research and development, or did you steal from Yu Moumou of a certain way?
[Author: Xu Sanlang]