For nearly two months, the war in Ukraine has been raging. Bloody battles for which it is difficult to assess the death toll as the two camps have differing figures. However, this situation does not seem to move the Russian media too much.
Like this totally surreal scene that took place on the set of the Russian state channel Russia-1. During a program, the presenters evoked, laughing, a possible nuclear strike against the city of New York.
This Wednesday, the Russians succeeded the first test firing of the Russian ballistic missile Sarmat. This new generation weapon has the particularity of being very long range and can carry up to 10 tons of explosive charges up to 18,000 kilometers. Potentially, it is a weapon of mass destruction that could wipe the city of 8 million people off the map.
“We have only one target, the territory of the United States”, begins one of the presenters. Which caused the laughter of one of his neighbors. “If 7.5 megatons were delivered to the territory of our so-called partner, then targets like New York City, a nice city, would be wiped off the map, completely destroyed, with just one missile. So that would be better not to do it”continued another.
Between two bursts of laughter, a person present on the set explains that “the term ‘partner’ is very important”. An ironic remark when we know the fresh relations between the two countries for several years already. “The Americans don’t have those kind of missiles and never have,” someone else claims, with footage of the successful test in the background.
These images were released on Twitter by Julia Davis. This American journalist created an independent information media about Russia: The Russian Daily Monitor. “Could you imagine one of our best-known presenters laughing at the idea of destroying a city?”she worries in her tweet.
Faced with this threat, the Pentagon has already reacted. The Americans claiming that it was a “routine” test and that it did not constitute “not a threat” for the United States or its allies. They assure that Moscow has “suitably informed” Washington of this test, in accordance with its obligations under the nuclear treaties. Therefore, they were not “surprised”added US Department of Defense spokesman John Kirby