“But we will go to heaven, while they will simply croak.”
Russian state TV hosts discussed the possibility of a war that expands outside of Ukraine on Tuesday, and Margarita Simonyan, journalist and head of RT, told viewers that a nuclear war would be OK because “we’re all going to die someday.” Russian television has consistently discussed the idea of war spreading beyond just Ukraine, promoting the idea of an “inevitable” war against “Europe and the world.” Major Russian channels have been known for vitriolic rhetoric being broadcast in an attempt to justify Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. On Tuesday night’s show, The Evening With Vladimir Solovyov, host Vladimir Solovyov, accompanied by Simonyan, said that in order to stop other countries from intervening in Russia’s war with Ukraine, a nuclear war would have to be a possibility. “Personally, I think that the most realistic way is the way of World War III, based on knowing us and our leader, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin,” Simonyan said according to The Daily Beast, “knowing how everything works around here, it’s impossible — there is no chance — that we will give up.
