DISINFO: London’s talk about a nuke war deflects attention from crown crisis
SUMMARY
London’s continual statements about Russia’s preparing for a nuclear war are aimed at deflecting attention away from the collapse of the monarchy in the light of endless conspiracies, crises and just plain corruption scandals.
RESPONSE
Pro-Kremlin disinformation trope about so-called "diversion of attention", trying to depict countries as collapsing and then artificially link this to their reaction to the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine.
The United Kingdom and other Western nations respond to the eve rmore frequent Russian nuclear threats. Moscow has repeatedly voiced threats about the possible use of nuclear arms in the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine that broke out on 24 February 2022. In May, former president Dmitry Medvedev, now Deputy chair of the Russian security council warned about nuclear war over Western arms deliveries to Ukraine. Russian lawmaker Andrey Gurulyov said on 24 June 2022 that Russia would strike London if the blockade of Russia’s Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad leads to a third world war. Gurulyov is a former deputy commander of Russia's southern military district.
This statement was made in response to Lithuania's decision to apply restrictions to specific categories of goods that are transported by rail, via the EU territory, to and from Kaliningrad. The transit of passengers and non-sanctioned goods to and from the Kaliningrad region through Lithuania continues uninterrupted.
Another Russian MP, Mikhail Sheremet, on 20 June 2022 threatened retaliatory strikes on Ukrainian "decision-making centres". By these words Russian experts and politicians usually mean the Ukrainian president's office, government and parliament buildings, military headquarters and Western embassies, particularly those of the US and the UK. Other Russian officials have been threatening the UK with nuclear blows as well.
As foreseen in the fourth package of EU sanctions, which was adopted on 15 March 2022, the EU's restrictive measures on imports into and transit through the EU of Russian steel and other ferrous metal products definitively entered into force on 17 June 2022.
With Queen Elizabeth II marking 70 years on the throne, the monarchy seems to be enjoying the support of most of its subjects. According to a poll conducted in May 2022, 62% of Britons think that Britain should continue to have a monarchy in the future while 22% say the country should have an elected head of state. The British monarchy has had its ups and downs over the past years, but the general trend in society is that it should remain as an institution unifying the nation.
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