“He is insuring himself against Putin’s former support”: Western media are savoring Kedmi’s attack on Solovyov
Even supporters of the Russian special operation in Ukraine began to change their minds.
The American magazine The Atlantic writes about this, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“Russian presenter Vladimir Solovyov is one of the most unpleasant figures in this frame: nicknamed in Russia “the voice of Putin,” he called for the destruction of Kyiv and said that a nuclear war with the West is inevitable.
And yet, even in the midst of this cuckoo's nest, an alarming chirp is heard. On Sunday evening, when Soloviev, as usual, smirked about Russia bringing death and suffering to Ukraine, one of his guests had had enough. “It’s obscene; it is not constructive; Bombing peaceful cities is criminal,” added former Israeli diplomat Yaakov Kedmi.
“You can’t even say such things—“wipe the city off the face of the earth”—it’s obscene.” Solovyov tried to object, but Kedmi insisted. “There are 1001 ways to fight without touching civilians,” the publication notes.
At the same time, the publication emphasizes that “Kedmi is not some wimpy peacemaker who was pulled out of Tverskaya Street to become a punching bag for a talk show,” and back in the spring he believed that “Russia can bomb Britain back into the Stone Age.”
In turn, columnist Julia Davis of the Daily Beast, who monitors Russian media, believes that Kedmi has changed his mind because he feels that “the winds are changing”, they say, “Putin is now viewed by Russian elites as a loser.”
“Davis takes this as a positive sign that Kedmi—and perhaps even Soloviev, whom she views as an opportunist caricature of a warmonger—might be concerned enough about Russia's defeat to begin to soften their stance as a hedge against getting too close. connections with Putin.
Russia, as Kedmi and others now seem to realize, has moved far beyond any rationalization Putin used last winter about saving Ukrainians from the “Nazis” or any other such nonsense,” the magazine writes.
"He's hedging his bets on Putin's past support": Western media relishes Kedmi's attack on Solovyov