Russian TV threatens UK with nuclear strikes + Israel condemns "Jewish Hitler" remark

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Russian TV threatens Britain with nuclear missile strikes
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/russian-...e-strikes/

INTRO: A TV channel in Russia, a nation currently struggling to invade a smaller neighbour on its own border, has inexplicably threatened “England” with nuclear missile strikes. Presumably, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are off the hook then? In a bizarre broadcast, seemingly forgetting the UK has its own nuclear weapons, Dmitry Kiselyov said:

“What will happen after Boris Johnson’s words about a retaliatory strike on Russia? Why do they threaten vast Russia with nuclear weapons while they are only a small island? The island is so small that one Sarmat missile is enough to drown it once and for all. Russian missile Sarmat [aka Satan-2], the world most powerful… is capable of… destroying an area the size of Texas or England." (MORE - details)

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Israel blasts Russian foreign minister for saying Hitler had Jewish roots
https://nypost.com/2022/05/02/israel-bla...ish-roots/

INTRO: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made the startling suggestion that Nazi Germany leader Adolf Hitler had Jewish roots — prompting Israel’s prime minister to issue a rebuke accusing the official of ?using the Holocaust as a “battering ram.”

Lavrov made the comments Sunday when he was questioned by Italian media about how Russia could claim it intended to “denazify” Ukraine when President Volodymyr Zelensky is Jewish.

“When they say ‘What sort of nazification is this if we are Jews’, well I think that Hitler also had Jewish origins, so it means nothing,” Lavrov said.

“For a long time now we’ve been hearing the wise Jewish people say that the biggest antisemites are the Jews themselves,” the Russian foreign minister said.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett blasted Lavrov’s claims as “lies” Monday. “Such lies are intended to accuse the Jews themselves of the most horrific crimes in history that were committed against them,” Bennett said in a statement... (MORE - details)

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Other, lagging outlets only now making their own hay of it.
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Russian propagandist makes state broadcast threatening the UK and Ireland with nuclear strike: 'Just one launch, Boris, and England is no more'
https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-...ike-2022-5

EXCERPT: . . . Another way to "put England onto the seabed" would be to use Russia's "Poseidon" underwater drone, Kiselyov noted. "It approaches the target at a one-kilometer depth at 200 kilometers per hour. There is no way to stop this underwater drone. The warhead on it is up to 100 megatons," he claimed.

Kiselyov then posited that the "explosion of this thermonuclear torpedo" off the UK's coast would raise a tsunami up to 500 meters high. "Such a water squall is also a carrier of extreme doses of radiation," he said. At the same time, the simulation showed a green "wave" representing radioactive material washing over a map of the UK and Ireland.

"Having passed over the British Isles, it will turn what may be left of them into a radioactive desert, unfit for anything for a long time," Kiselyov said.

John Everard, the UK's former ambassador to Belarus, told RTE that he did not believe Russia had a weapon that could wipe out the UK and Ireland, per the graphic on Russian TV.

"I would urge everybody just to keep calm. By all means, if you feel strongly about it, make your things clear to the Russians. But can we please remember this is just a television mock-up," Everard said, per the outlet.

"The Russians do not have this weapon. I'll say that again, they do not have this weapon," he added, per RTE... (MORE - missing details)