Two people rule Russia - Piontkovsky

He said this on Espreso TV. 

“Two people, Patrushev and Putin, are ruling Russia right now and are demonstrating complete clinical insanity. One of them is waving a nuclear bomb. You see, nuclear blackmail has been working for 15 years as blackmail to make Washington say: don't provoke Putin. First, for several years, they did not give Ukraine Javelins, and there was the same conversation: we should not provoke Putin, in case he takes nuclear weapons. And then we don't give Stingers, we don't give howitzers, we don't give HIMARS, Patriot, Abrams, and so on. That's it! This game is over! No one is afraid of him anymore, he has been told that he will be killed,” the political scientist said.

Andrey Piontkovsky noted that a person who is shivering from a virus when the pandemic has long since ended is not ready to die. Therefore, everyone understands that this is stupid blackmail.

“And look at Patrushev's face when he says with conviction and believes that America is about to disintegrate. California will go to Mexico, and Alaska will probably go to the United States. But it is very good that the enemy is in such a state,” Piontkovsky summarized.

• On March 25, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that a storage facility for Russian tactical nuclear weapons would be completed in Belarus by July 1.

• The Institute for the Study of War reported that Putin said that tactical nuclear weapons were deployed in Belarus to frighten the West and reduce the effectiveness of Ukraine's counteroffensive.