Russia's state TV: What the elites are afraid of

Created: 11/30/2022, 10:58 am

By: Tim Vincent Dicke

RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan describes Russia's elite on state television as "polite and sometimes mild-mannered".

© Julia Davis/Russian Media Monitor (Screenshot)

Concerns about a defeat in the Ukraine war are growing on Russia's state TV.

But in an emergency, you could also bomb the world into “rubble and ash”.

Moscow – For months, Russian state television has been cheering on the fighting in Ukraine.

Well-known TV personalities and guests on talk shows justify the course of Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin and the attacks on the Ukrainian civilian population with a fight against the supposedly "satanic" West, which wants to destroy Russia.

However, since the Russian troops are still unable to achieve any major successes, the worry lines are growing before a defeat and all the consequences that result from it, as

reported

This is now impressively shown by a recording from the talk show by the moderator Vladimir Solovyov, known as "Putin's voice", which is broadcast on the Russian state broadcaster

.

In it, Margarita Simonjan, editor-in-chief of the foreign broadcaster

, says that the elites are concerned that supporters of the Ukraine war will end up before the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

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The clip was uploaded to Twitter by Russia expert Julia Davis.

The journalist is the founder of the

, on which she translates and analyzes articles from the media loyal to the Kremlin.

Within a short time, the video reached several hundred thousand views on the short message service.

First of all,

boss Simonyan justifies the Russian attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, which have only one goal: to break the morale of the Ukrainian civilian population through a lack of electricity and cold.

"We bomb every day.

We bomb the infrastructure.

God knows we didn't mean to do that.

Nobody wanted that, you and I didn't want that," she says to Solovyov.

Putin and his administration did not choose this strategy benevolently either.

However, the destruction of power plants and power lines is "the only thing we can do in this situation." Finally, Ukraine is getting ready to "take" the occupied Crimea - Russia has seen the peninsula as its own territory since the illegal annexation in 2014 on.

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"We are friendly, polite and sometimes gentle," says Simonyan, with a pinch of cynicism, describing himself and the Russian elites in politics, business and the media.

In a tone that sounds conspiratorial and with bizarre hand movements, Solovyov interjects that one is also “trustworthy”.

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Then Simonyan launches an angry tirade against those within the elite who would worry about The Hague.

"We shouldn't care less about what people over there think," she says, before explaining what she means by people "over there".

Rather, “people who are afraid of The Hague” should be worried about “losing, being humiliated and betraying their people”.

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If Russia were to lose the Ukraine conflict, the West would drag everyone to court, according to the

boss.

Even the "street sweeper who sweeps the cobblestones behind the Kremlin." Solovyov interjects that if the war isn't won, Russia will drag the whole world down the abyss anyway.

"If that happens, there will be no The Hague.

Then there is nothing.

The whole world will be in ruins,” the propagandist rants.

"Putin's voice" had previously warned of a war defeat.

Victory must come, no matter what the cost, he said in a broadcast.

“Otherwise we cease to exist.

Then there will be no more Russian culture, no Russian language and no more Russian people,” says Solovyov.

(tvd)