Faced with the multiplication of verbal threats or the simulations of Russian fire, Westerners prefer to avoid for the time being all alarmism.
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It is a small music that goes up in Russia, with an increasingly disturbing insistence: the trivialization of the nuclear threat, a practice which had never reached such a level, even during the Soviet period. Talk-show length and television news, presenters and guests discharge on the ability of Russian weapons to destroy any opponent.
Monday, May 2, the star presenter of the first channel, Dmitri Kisselev, shows an animation which, even if it defies all the laws of physics, promises in the United Kingdom to be erased from the card by a caught tsunami by the explosion of the Drone Missile Nuclear Poseidon. The survivors would be exposed “to extreme doses of radiation”.
A few days earlier, on a competing channel, we calculated the time necessary for the latest addition to the missiles to strike the capitals “of the countries which deliver the most weapons to Ukraine” – 106 seconds to reach Berlin, 200 Seconds for Paris, 202 seconds for London. “It is impossible to intercept, they will not even have time to turn around,” enthusiastic the expert in set. 2> “flow” the United Kingdom
These warnings follow as waves the force demonstrations organized by power. On April 20, it is the test shooting of a Sarmat ballistic missile. He should only be deployed in the fall, but he must “make those who try to threaten our country think twice with unleashed and aggressive rhetoric,” warns President Vladimir Putin, who speaks of a weapon “Undessished”. Television already evokes, in the process, the possibility of “sinking” the United Kingdom.
It is also, more recently, the overview of Moscow, noticed Wednesday by BFM-TV, of the Iliouchine IL-80 Maxdome, command plane adapted to a nuclear conflict. This device, which had not been seen since 2010, will probably be deployed during the military parade of 9-May.
More disturbing, the same day, Moscow indicated having simulated nuclear capacity missile fire in the Russian enclave in Kaliningrad, where weapons of ISKANDER type carrying nuclear heads 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 coming days or weeks. Violations of the airspace of these countries have also been observed in recent days, and a display campaign in the streets of Moscow recalls the “support for Nazism” of Swedish personalities.
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