{"id":118349,"date":"2022-06-01T18:14:31","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T22:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=118349"},"modified":"2022-06-01T18:14:31","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T22:14:31","slug":"read-this-if-you-want-to-know-how-seriously-russia-is-taking-world-war-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=118349","title":{"rendered":"Read this if you want to know how seriously Russia is taking World War III!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kremlin TV Names the Country Putin Will Invade Next<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Julia Davis
\nYahoo! News<\/p>\n

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While some in the West are pondering what kind of a concessions would allow Russian autocrat\u00a0Vladimir Putin<\/a>\u00a0\u201cto save face\u201d in Ukraine, leading Russian lawmakers and top propagandists are advocating smashing the West, which they say is Russia\u2019s ultimate target.<\/p>\n

On the state TV show\u00a060 Minutes<\/em>, host Olga Skabeeva announced: \u201cI have some unpleasant news… Even though we are methodically destroying the weapons that are being delivered [to Ukraine], but the quantities in which the United States are sending them force us to come up with some global conclusions. Perhaps it\u2019s time to acknowledge that maybe Russia\u2019s special operation in\u00a0Ukraine<\/a>\u00a0has come to an end, in a sense that a real war had started: WWIII. We\u2019re forced to conduct the demilitarization not only of Ukraine, but of the\u00a0entire NATO alliance.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

Vladimir Avatkov, from the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said: \u201cYou mentioned WWIII and the way Americans and Poles are acting on the territory of Ukraine\u2014indeed, we need to remember the words of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, who said that anyone who tries to interfere in the special military operation will pay a heavy price.\u201d Skabeeva interrupted: \u201cWe never forget about these words of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, but a great number of people are already standing in line, trying to interfere in Russia\u2019s special operation on the territory of Ukraine. Turns out, we have to act\u2014but we\u2019re yet to figure out how we can act without conducting a nuclear strike.\u201d<\/p>\n

Russian parliament member Oleg Matveychev weighed in: \u201cIf Poland starts any intervention… its current borders will be worthless.\u201d Skabeeva wasn\u2019t satisfied: \u201cI wasn\u2019t talking just about Poland, but mainly about Great Britain and the United States… they\u2019re all lined up.\u201d Avatkov chimed in: \u201cNo need to rush, there is a line. Everything in its time!\u201d<\/p>\n

The first in line is apparently Poland, with Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev baselessly\u00a0claiming<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday that Poland is moving to seize territories in western Ukraine and accusing numerous unnamed countries of \u201cactively working to dismember Ukraine.\u201d Meanwhile, on Russian state TV hosts and pundits routinely refer to Ukraine as \u201cthe territory formerly known as Ukraine\u201d and matter-of-factly\u00a0discuss<\/a>\u00a0how many millions of Ukrainians might have to die for Russia to complete its so-called \u201cdenazification.\u201d In his recent interview, Russian State Duma Deputy Defense Committee Chairman Vladimir Shamanov, former Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Airborne Troops,\u00a0admitted<\/a>\u00a0that Russia \u201cwas built through territorial enlargement\u201d and named Poland as one of Russia\u2019s main adversaries.<\/p>\n

Appearing on the state TV show\u00a0Sunday Evening With Vladimir Solovyov<\/em>, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Defense Andrey Kartapolov expounded on the idea of Russia\u2019s crusade against the Western world: \u201cFor us, the special military operation is just the first act, an introduction. The war that is going on right now… it\u2019s not just an economical war and info-war, this war is about our faith. It\u2019s about our right, as the people, to have faith in what we want to believe, to love those we want to love, and to live the way our ancestors would have wanted, on our land and by our birthright.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kartapolov added: \u201cThese wars are not the first wars. In the 19th century\u2014Napoleon, in the 20th century\u2014Adolf Aloisovich Hitler, and every time all of Europe came at us. The same thing is happening now… It\u2019s a good thing that a realization is coming, it\u2019s time to stop lying. Stop lying to ourselves, stop lying to our leader, stop lying to our own people. It\u2019s time to be responsible for our words and deeds and to move forward as one\u2014to the goal that has been set by the commander-in-chief.\u201d<\/p>\n

The strategy of justifying such a potential attack against additional adversaries is consistent with the Kremlin\u2019s previous approach with respect to Ukraine: ludicrous claims that the chosen target was about to go on the offensive against the Motherland. The impending conflict against the West is being framed in terms of an existential battle for Russia\u2019s survival.<\/p>\n

Kartapolov claimed, \u201cToday, Europe is a de-facto colony of the United States, the new type of a colony. In the \u201990s, we were the same kind of a colony but managed to break free\u2014thanks to our president and the decisions he made… They put everything in a beautiful wrapper, selling it to us under the guise of democracy, freedom of speech and all sorts of other slogans. Their main goal was to usurp our resources, our natural resources, to split Russia up into many vicious countries fighting with one another.\u201d<\/p>\n

The alleged desire to \u201cdismember Russia\u201d is also being ascribed to opposition activists, in order to simultaneously target all perceived enemies, both foreign and domestic. During Monday\u2019s broadcast of\u00a0The Evening With Vladimir Solovyov<\/em>, arguments were made to limit the influence of members of the opposition on Russian society\u2014particularly those who still travel abroad. Political scientist Vadim Gigin claimed, \u201cPeople who are planning to return to Russia… are proposing to divide the country.\u201d Host Vladimir Solovyov added, \u201cThey have the lists of undesirables… they\u2019ll be hanging people. What\u2019s scary is that they\u2019re coming back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shota Gorgadze, a member of the Russian Presidential Human Rights Council proposed that immediately upon their return, opposition activists be criminally charged for their alleged calls to dismember Russia. Agitated, Solovyov complained, \u201cFor months we\u2019ve been demanding that criminal cases be open against all of [Alexei] Navalny\u2019s terrorist sect under article 275 [treason].\u201d Gorgadze proposed that anyone speaking out \u201cagainst the interests of the Russian Federation, especially during this difficult time\u201d be stripped of their Russian citizenship. He added, \u201cIf the law says this can\u2019t be done, I don\u2019t see any reason why this law can\u2019t be changed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Urging a more aggressive approach, Solovyov asked, \u201cAre we acting as inert gases, simply taking up only as much room as the West allows? The West is squeezing us and we\u2019re accepting it and adapting to it? When things let up, will we exhale and welcome the air of freedom? No, that won\u2019t work. It\u2019s time to sober up and find our way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Discussing Russia\u2019s confrontation with the collective West during\u00a0Sunday Evening With Vladimir Solovyov<\/em>, Kartapolov framed it as a crusade: \u201cI\u2019m convinced that this war is about faith. Russia is an Orthodox country, and by \u201cOrthodox\u201d I don\u2019t mean just Christianity. Orthodoxy is when on our territory all traditional religions peacefully co-exist: traditional Islam, Buddhism, and Judaism… They\u2019re saying, we\u2019re destroying the Ukrainian culture. What culture? Look at the devils they pulled out from the basements of Azovstal… It\u2019s the face\u2014I can\u2019t even call it a face\u2014the snout of the unclean. The holy scripture says, \u201cWhat has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.\u201d In the 19th century, we came to Paris, in the 20th century we came to Berlin\u2014we\u2019ll come wherever they try to enslave and humiliate us. You won\u2019t succeed. Expect us.\u201d<\/p>\n

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