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Russia’s top space official, Dmitry Rogozin, recited a famous children’s poem in a YouTube video last week to commemorate a national holiday. When he got to the line, “I love everyone around the world,” the track took a dark turn, showing footage of the test launch of Russia’s nuclear-armed Sarmat ballistic missile, nicknamed “Satan-2.”
Threats of nuclear war are now so insignificant to the Kremlin that it has become the stuff of jokes.
On Saturday, Rogozin, the director of Russia’s federal space agency Roscosmos, announced Sarmat’s second test launch – a ballistic missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads – which he called “a gift to NATO”. On his weekly program on the state-run TV network Russia-24, Rogozin said he is the one overseeing “increasing demands for this machine agreed with our client, the Ministry of Defense; and of course we started the series production of the missiles. ” Rogozin added that Roscosmos, by order of Putin, plans to allocate the first division of Sarmat missiles in the Krasnoyarsk region this year.
While boasting about his Satan-2 monstrosity, Rogozin also doubled over Russian threats against NATO member Lithuania for his transit ban on Russian exports.
“From my point of view – and I am the man who led those negotiations in 2003, as the Presidential Special Representative – we must begin to doubt the whole package of our agreements,” he said, referring to the 1920 peace treaty between the Soviets Russia and Lithuania which have recognized the country’s sovereignty. “Lithuania has shot itself in the head and doubts about its own state border.”
It was not the first time that Rogozin, who is also Russia’s former ambassador to NATO, threatened the alliance with conflicts or weapons of mass destruction.
“Rogozin is a real falcon, I know him personally very well for many years, he likes to act on stage, make jokes, but his recent nuclear saber rattles makes me very worried,” said Gennady Gudkov, a former MP and KGB veteran, told The Daily Beast. “The Kremlin obviously wants it to threaten NATO with nuclear war and that is no joke, as we have seen too many psychopathic orders in recent months to kill thousands of civilians.”
“I heard in February from my sources near the Kremlin that there was a discussion about the use of … the nuclear weapons, so I moved all my grandchildren out of Russia,” Gudkov added.
Last month, Rogozin said that “in a nuclear war, NATO countries will be destroyed by us within half an hour.” No one in government has rejected his apocalyptic threats.
“We are not fighting the Nazis in Ukraine, we are liberating Ukraine” from Western influence, he said 11 weeks after Russian President Vladimir Putin sent his army “to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine”. By early April, it was clear that the “operation” would take much longer than the Kremlin expected. By mid-April, Ukraine had expelled Russian military forces from the Kyiv region, and just weeks later, the first test of the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile was carried out.
“Try to threaten our country, think twice,” Putin warned, just as his state TV propaganda machine declared that “everything will end in a nuclear attack.”
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It is clear that images of the Sarmat were intended to intimidate NATO away from Russia’s borders. Just this week, when the NATO summit kicked off in Madrid, the Russian Federal Space Agency ominously published Sputnik satellite images showing exact coordinates of the summit’s location on Telegram.
“Russian propagandists often begin to believe what they say; there is, of course, something behind their constant threats, ”Vasily Gatov, a senior fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Communication, told The Daily Beast. “But Rogozin often sounds like a charlatan. He is a classic Putin’s bureaucrat who is good at public relations and who shares murky imperialist ideas. “
But for those in Ukraine bombed by Russian missiles, Rogozin’s Sarmat threats sound serious.
The founder and editor-in-chief of Ukraine’s Zaborona media office, Katerina Sergatskova, was sleeping peacefully at home with her husband and their two young children when the first Russian missiles hit Kyiv on February 24. Sergatskova’s apartment block is on the left bank of the Dnieper River, which was attacked six times in the first day of the war.
“We are seriously considering an attack by a Russian nuclear ballistic missile, that they will use it to improve their positions in high-interest negotiations,” she told The Daily Beast.
Earlier this month, nuclear talks came to a boil when Radoslaw Sikorski, a Member of the European Parliament, suggested that the West “has the right to give Ukraine nuclear warheads.” Another Kremlin ideologue, the chairman of the Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin, immediately promised that Europe would “disappear” if they provided Ukraine with nuclear weapons. “Sikorski provokes a nuclear conflict in the middle of Europe. “He does not think about the future of Ukraine or the future of Poland,” Volodin said.
“It remains only to encourage the aggressors to speak more politely with Russia.”
KGB veteran Gudkov believes Putin has several bunkers to turn to in the event of a nuclear war. “When he says he has a plan, that plan must mean that he hides 2 500 meters underground with whom he also considers all his closest men. The rest seem to be panicking. “Almost all Russian oligarchs have left the country,” Gudkov told The Daily Beast.
Military experts analyzing the risks of a nuclear war say there are no signs yet that Russia is ready to go that far.
“I am a little worried about the insignificant discussions of a nuclear war. There is a big question: Who is Rogozin? … He is not the President of Russia and as far as we know, he is not [directly] involved in the test of Sarmat. It is the Russian Ministry of Defense that is doing the testing. “
Yet, that has not stopped Rogozin from being one of the top Russian voices spreading fears of a catastrophic nuclear meltdown around the world.
“With a nuclear charge, such a crater at a hostile site would be … very large and very deep,” Rogozin said last month, referring to Sarmat-2. But for now, “it remains only to urge the aggressors to speak more politely with Russia.”
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