Russian’s Joke About Famine Is Not Appreciated Amid Huge Food Crises

Kremlin propaganda chief Margarita Simonyan’s blatant admission that Russia is using famine as a weapon in its war against Ukraine is not going over well with nations that rely on grain shipments from the Black Sea ports. Simonyan, director of the state propaganda channel ‘Russia Today,’ said: “A cynical joke or perhaps an exclamation has appeared, I’ve already heard it from several people in Moscow. ‘All hope is pinned on famine’. What is meant is that famine will begin and they [in the West] will come to their senses, will remove sanctions and will be friends with us because it’s impossible to not be friends.” In other words, like us or starve. Simonyan argues that it is just a matter of time before Western leaders cave in and concede to Putin’s demand of lifting sanctions. Apart from the sheer and utterly cold calculation of the move, can you imagine a ‘propaganda chief’ actually uttering those lines? She obviously doesn’t care that she burned her own house down. Russia has come to this: an environment so insular that no concept of criticism bothers an official. No wonder their propaganda war remains such a child-like delusional set of nonsensical accusations. <a href="https://barry-gander.medium.com/russians-joke-about-famine-is-not-appreciated-amid-huge-food-crises-1f72c0458f03">Visit Now</a>