Russian commentators threaten UK and US with terrifying weapons on state TV

Published on March 15, 2023 at 12:20 PM by Ali Postma

The UK and the US are once again the targets of threats made by commentators on Russian state TV.

Russian state TV has once again provided a platform for more threats against the West for supporting Ukraine.

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Russian state TV threatens UK and US

The latest comments were made by guests on the show Evening with Vladimir Solovyov on state-owned Russia-1 TV channel. A video of the discussion with English subtitles was posted on Twitter on Tuesday 14 March by Francis Scarr of BBC Monitoring.

Retired Russian general Yevgeny Buzhinsky begun by saying:

We’ve got weapons like Poseidon, well, and Burevestnik

To which host Vladimir Solovyov responded:

I would like to see Poseidon in action!

And I’d like to see Sarmat in action too!

Buzhinsky then threatened a Poseidon missile strike which will cause a tsunami, a threat that has been made before:

You know, if we are to believe Orban, if they’re really about to deploy troops, well it will all end with Poseidon and a tsunami, a 300 or 500 metre wave.

Another totally normal evening on Russian state TV as Solovyov and Simonyan join military commentator Yevgeny Buzhinsky in fantasising about the Poseidon underwater drone causing a nuclear tsunami that engulfs Britain pic.twitter.com/kNigUAmMo8
— Francis Scarr (@francis_scarr) March 14, 2023

Solovyov responded:

And then, Great Britain will be no more!

To which Buzhinsky said:

Yes, Great Britain will definitely be no more. I’m talking about the United States.

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Mocking world leaders

Solovyov then asked, referring to British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and French President Emmanuel Macron:

And if Sunak is washed away, who will Macron have left to kiss?

The head of RT channel Margarita Simonyan responded in Russian 'opyat s Trudeau' which means 'Trudeau again!', referring to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. It is also a play on the Russian phrase 'Opyat s trudom', which means 'with difficulty again', as Solovyov pointed out, laughing:

Trudeau again, yes. With difficulty again!

Sources used:

Newsweek: 'Russia Should Unleash Nuclear Torpedo on the U.S., State TV Says'