Putin has implied his willingness to use nukes against the world, and his mouthpieces have all but confirmed it. Now is the time to pray.

From Daily Mail. Vladimir Putin will launch an all-out nuclear war on the West rather than accept defeat in Ukraine, Russia‘s chief propagandists have declared, in just the latest chilling threat coming from Moscow.

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Margarita Simonyan, editor of state broadcaster RT and one of the Kremlin’s highest-profile mouthpieces, declared on TV last night that the idea of Putin pressing the red button is ‘more probable’ than the idea that he will allow Russia to lose the war.

‘Either we lose in Ukraine,’ she said, ‘or the Third World War starts. I think World War Three is more realistic, knowing us, knowing our leader.

‘The most incredible outcome, that all this will end with a nuclear strike, seems more probable to me than the other course of events.

‘This is to my horror on one hand,’ she told a panel of experts shifting nervously in their seats, ‘but on the other hand, it is what it is. We will go to heaven, while they will simply croak… We’re all going to die someday.’

Simonyan’s calm imagining of nuclear holocaust is just the latest threat issued from the top levels of the Russian state, after fellow propagandist Vladimir Solovyov, foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, and Putin himself issued threats in the last 48 hours….

It comes after Russia successfully test-launched its latest nuclear missile – Sarmat 2 – last week, with Putin boasting it can strike targets anywhere on earth and cannot be stopped by any current missile defences.

Lavrov was the first to raise the nuclear threat in an interview on Russian state TV late Tuesday, when he was asked whether the current standoff between east and west could be compared to the Cuban missile crisis at the height of the Cold War.

The foreign minister responded that the current situation is more dangerous, because the weapons involved are more powerful, the controls on them more lax, and communication between the two sides is non-existent.

‘During the Cuban Missile Crisis there were not many “written” rules. But the rules of conduct were clear enough.

‘Moscow understood how Washington was behaving. Washington understood how Moscow was behaving. Now there are few rules left,’ he said.

Asked directly about the threat of nuclear war, he added: ‘The risks are very significant. I do not want the danger to be artificially inflated [but] it is serious, real. It cannot be underestimated.’

That was followed by off-the-cuff remarks from Solovyev while discussing the deployment of Sarmat 2 with the head of the Roscosmos space agency, who said the missile will go into service later this year.

 ‘As it turned out, one Sarmat means minus one Great Britain,’ Solovyov boasted, suggesting the UK deserves to wiped off the map because it has become ‘totally boorish’ – in what appeared to be a reference for this country’s support for Ukraine.

Dmitry Rogozin, head of the Roscosmos space agency, told Solovyov that 46 of the missiles will be constructed with the first deployed to units in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, later this year.

‘Everything is according to plan with us,’ he said. ‘It is all according to plan.’

That was then followed by a threat from Putin himself, who vowed a ‘lightning-fast’ response to any country who directly intervenes in the Ukraine conflict.

‘If someone intends to interfere in what is going on from the outside they must know that constitutes an unacceptable strategic threat to Russia,’ he said during a meeting with lawmakers in St Petersburg.

‘They must know that our response to counter strikes will be lightning fast. Fast.

‘We have all the weapons we need for this. No one else can brag about these weapons, and we won’t brag about them. But we will use them.’

Putin did not directly mention nukes, but his phrasing appears to be a clear reference to the new Sarmat missile which he boasted is unlike any other weapon in the world as it was tested last week.

It also echoes a threat that Putin made as he declared the start of his ‘special military operation’ back in February, which was that any country seeking to interfere would face consequences ‘never seen before in their history’.

The nuclear threats from state media also echo a wider narrative emerging from the Kremlin’s propaganda machine which is that Russia is now engaged in a full-scale conflict with NATO that pre-sages a Third World War.

Olga Skabeeva, another state TV host and Kremlin mouthpiece, declared on Tuesday that a summit of 40 defence ministers in Germany held to coordinate arms deliveries to Ukraine was effectively a declaration of war.

‘They declared a war,’ she told viewers. ‘World War III, no longer just a special operation, with forty countries against us.’

Political scientist Mikhail Markelov agreed with her, declaring that those 40 countries are ‘today’s collective Hitler’.

Dmitry Kulikov, another state media personality, also repeated the line. ‘This is a big war,’ he said. ‘The West declared it against us.

‘Let’s be worthy of our predecessors, everyone who lived through that. What made us think that our lives should be better than those of our grandparents?

‘Why should we be free of our historical mission?’…

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(Excerpt from Daily Mail. Photo Credit: Kilian Karger on Unsplash)