The apocalyptic idea of a nuclear war, at least since the Cuban crisis, has been more than a factual possibility a geopolitical theory.
But in recent weeks, especially as the Kremlin has suffered a setback from Ukrainian resistance that has forced Russia to engage in a long-awaited war with numerous casualties, the use of these destructive weapons is circulating more and more among individuals. close to Putin.
Cuba was a historic comparison presented by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov himself in an interview on Russian public television. "During the missile crisis in Cuba, there were not many written rules. But the rules of conduct were clear. Moscow understood how Washington was acting, and Washington understood how Moscow was acting. "There are very few rules left today."
These rules seem to have disappeared even in the curb that public figures with some influence in the Kremlin are declaring more and more openly. The latest is Margarita Simonyan, director of Russia Today, one of Moscow's most powerful media instruments.
During a television show, in the presence of some experts, she stated that "either we lose in Ukraine, or the Third World War begins. I think the third war is more likely, knowing our leader. "The possibility of this ending in a nuclear attack seems to me more likely than defeat."
Simonyan added that the use of nuclear weapons "is terrible, but on the other hand we have nothing to do. "We will go to heaven, but they will simply disappear. We will all die one day."
Days earlier, another prominent pro-Putin journalist, Vladimir Solovyov, had ruled out an attack on Britain, while threats came from Lavrov himself, but also from President Putin, who said the West "could face with a weapon he had never seen before. "