When Russian military correspondents were stomping for the regime, I bet they never imagined it would turn on them. Head of RT Margarita Simonyan was swearing up and down that "according to her sources" this wasn't happening. Apparently, it is. ⤵️
Perhaps now people will understand why they shouldn't have shared clips where someone took my translated videos and added their own fake translations "for fun." This was the real purpose of doing that: now stupid @Facebook is marking my authentic translations with this notice.
Russia claims that accusations it might use tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine are "absurd." Let's take a trip down memory lane and recall various threats to do so on Kremlin-controlled state TV, where not much happens without official approval.
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The possibility of Russia using nuclear weapons against Ukraine has been continually raised by the state-controlled media and Russian lawmakers. Here is one of many examples:
Putin came, bearing flowers, to give his respects to the late nationalist extremist Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who predicted the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine to take place at 4 AM on February 22, 2022. That might have been part of the original plan. Thread: