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Russian state TV presenter Dmitry Kiselyov previously went even further, referring to defunct installations such as Fort Ritchie in Maryland and McClellan Air Force Base in California
So not only are they telling us what we already know, they're also telling us that their intelligence is significantly out of date.
The intended audience here is the Russian domestic one.
The TV show probably has no privileged information on war plans. The point is to create a narrative for the Russian public.
What narrative though?
Hurr durr look we strong. Support Putin for how strong he make us.
Yeah, something along those lines.
Russian Media Monitor has plenty of clips of Russian state television doing one variant on this or another, having hosts musing about how Russia could, if it wanted to, use nuclear weapons and wipe out the US or UK or Germany or France or Europe or whatever.
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Ah, they've assembled a playlist of clips, which is apparently now up to 70 videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3xlDiu3jtQ&list=PLLWQyEN3YRo4-iEM1Ow5BnZsTUHa4AQxp
Nuclear threats on Russian state TV
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Nothing these Russian equivalents of Fox or Truth Social assclowns say has any informational value at all. It doesn't indicate real Russian plans, says nothing about what Russian intelligence knows or doesn't know, it's just noise.
I'm kind of wondering if the plan here isn't to goad trump into retaliating by blurting out where our own missiles are pointed at.
They threw some obvious ones out there like the Pentagon (duh of course they have missiles pointed there)
And then padded out the list with some defunct sites to make the list longer because someone like Trump is going to want to one-up them by listing at least that many of our targets. Russia probably doesn't actually have missiles aimed at most of those places, but this way they don't actually have to give up any of their actual targets.
And trump will probably take the bait to beef up missile defences around those defunct sites, wasting money, time, manpower, and resources that could be better used anywhere else.
Or… that’s the impression they’re putting on public television.
Name credible and strategic sounding targets on domestic TV, while ensuring the actual targets make more sense.
What would make a better target than our leadership and nuclear response sites?
I bet /c/noncredibledefense could come up with a better list of first-strike targets as a joke
ooo the Pentagon. How original
The Hexagon is where the real plans are made.
for a second I thought you were talking about France, and no, we don't make plans here
That's exactly what someone who makes plans would say.
Is it a Hexagon now with Space Force? The memes can't even keep up with reality.
If Russia nukes the US, how will trump blame Biden?
"It's his fault for not stopping me from being elected!"
Naw, that'd require too much self-awareness.
Damn the cold war is back, but this time Hollywood sucks now so we probably won't even get any good movies out of it.
We're kind of in the warm up for WW3, I f we haven't already lost.
They'll remake Red Dawn, again.
Can we at least get some good music out of it? Atom bomb baby!
I was worried after he stopped making weekly nuke threats for a while there. Glad were back on track.
Oh look, nuclear sabre rattling again.
So, he’s not going to do anything and likely has nothing... He barks so much that he’s like a Yorkie in 6” lifts.
I'm always comforted in knowing that I'm completely bracketed by major targets and won't die in the fire but instead by the fallout.
Probably not. Nuclear fallout loses 80% of its effectiveness after 24 hours.
If you can find a building to avoid the initial blast, stay inside for a day and then leave the area while wearing something to filter the air. Get rid of the clothes you wore and you have a very good chance of not getting sick or dying.
Sure buddy, just avoid eating or drinking anything for the next 200 years.
Yeah but there will be a ton of it around me. I'm about 20 miles from camp David, 20 miles from Raven Rock, 40 miles from dc, and 40 miles from ft meade. And Raven Rock and camp David will both be surface bursts and produce a shit ton of it.
I mean damn, at least you know you're gonna have a chance to become an atmospheric storytelling skeleton or blast shadow, but that's some bad damn luck.
It's safer the longer you stay put. So don't consider 24 hours safe when you can stay longer. If you can wait until rain, that's could help with the dust. There's also the fact that radiation seeps in trough the building itself. It's safest to have as much building above and around you as possible, so stay near the bottom or in a basement. When you see the white light, get to cover and stay away from windows. After the initial blast you have around 15 minutes before the fallout starts to come down.
We need to advertise Free Trump-Signed Bibles in all of those states.
Free? He's not gonna just give them away
Nonsense. The taxpayers will pay for it.
But it'll be blamed on the Dems wanting food stamps or something.
The regime as a media troll. FUD for us, laughs for them. And their people gobble it up.
At least that's the intent - the fediverse is not FUDed at all, and I wonder how many Russians see through the simplicity and obviousness of the charade. Probably more than we think, but what can they do about it.
Who'd have thought we'd get a Soviet Union 2.0.
Who’d have thought we’d get a Soviet Union 2.0.
Putin's worse than any Soviet leader except Stalin.
Me to Putin: Do it pussy, you won’t.
Well, I wasn't going to live forever. If I go for having convictions and it takes my fascist government with me, well then I can stand tall when I stand naked before the gods.
Guessing these are the documents Trump stole and tried to hide in Mar a Lago
San Diego didn't make the list? I dunno if I should be relieved or insulted!
Meh.. I doubt Russians would hit military targets, but keep in eye on kindergarten and hospitals, there’s a chance they’ll hit.
He-heeeey! I wonder how would Trump & Co. play this down, with him hard at work suck- I mean working on relations with Russia.
Not what I wanted for Christmas.