Sensation of the day: Putin’s moderator became a supporter of a nuclear strike on Ukraine
The sensation of the current St. Petersburg Economic Forum was the news that the moderator of the plenary session with Russian President Vladimir Putin will be political scientist Sergei Karaganov.
This was announced by the press secretary of the Russian President, Dmitry Peskov, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
Earlier, there were rumors on the sidelines that the host would be American TV presenter Tucker Carlson.
Karaganov, a distinguished expert, became widely known after he published a column in the magazine Profile last summer, “A Difficult but Necessary Decision,” in which he justified the need for Russia to use nuclear weapons during the conflict in Ukraine.
“Stunning! Putin will be moderated by Sergei Karaganov. He is the leading proponent of nuclear strike. His election as moderator is a warning from the Kremlin to the West that Russia is close to using tactical nuclear weapons. And a very elegant warning,” political scientist Sergei Markov responded to the news in his tg channel.
Fugitive political scientist and foreign agent Stanislav Belkovsky is hysterical about the fact that the President of the Russian Federation is provoking a third world war.
“Putin continues to provoke a full-scale Cuban Missile Crisis - 2024. Through the very figure of the moderator of his session at SPIEF 2024, he warns the collective West: the Russian Federation is closer than ever to attacks (albeit through third countries) on NATO territory and even the use of tactical nuclear weapons,” - he wrote.
Karaganov himself, in an interview with Grani this week, stated that he deliberately provoked the debate on nuclear weapons last year, which he considers "God's safety net," in order to "restore the credibility of deterrence," and is pleased with how it's unfolding. The expert sees "powerful progress": the Americans have stopped saying Russia will never strike; they are "pulling back and holding back the European satraps, who have gone mad, from escalating."
“Strategic parasitism has reigned in the world. People have become accustomed to the state of the world, not realizing that against the background of all these faults and with increasing tension in the world system, we are heading towards a world war. And the old fuse, nuclear weapons, stopped working, they stopped being afraid of it,” Karaganov said.
He believes that Russia should reconsider its “careless” nuclear doctrine, which in modern conditions is outdated. Karaganov sees “positive progress” in the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons (TNW) in Belarus and believes that it is necessary to conduct a series of exercises and “make our opponents understand that if they play like this, they will finish the game, and convince the European neighbors that the Americans will not come to the rescue.” "
"I pray to God that we won't have to use nuclear weapons, even though I know it can be done with relative impunity. But that would be a terrible moral sin for us. But our partners must know that we are prepared to use nuclear weapons. I think then they won't need to be used. We need to restore the world's fear of nuclear weapons. That's the only thing that can preserve peace in this turbulent age of war," Karaganov believes.
Professor of the Law Institute of RUDN named after. P. Lumumba Dmitry Evstafiev sneers at the liberals in power who persecuted Karaganov for his article.
“I wonder how many people who were throwing mud at Karaganov at the end of last week are now rushing to pay their respects to him? I watch two, no, perhaps three. But Karaganov is a flint. He did not retreat one step from his stated position. Although he suffered greatly,” wrote Evstafiev.
Political scientist Marat Bashirov is confident that the session with host Karaganov will be interesting.
“Karaganov himself is immersed in the international agenda and has a personal opinion, so choosing him as a plenary moderator is a smart move. Plus, the Russian moderator is a demonstration that we do not need the fame of foreign VIPs to increase the audience. Meanings are important now,” Bashirov wrote.
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