In a recent interview with The Daily Beast, a Russian with insider ties to the Kremlin said he was currently stocking up in preparation for war with the United States.
“These are the most serious tensions between Moscow and Washington in decades,” said Sergei Markov, a member of the Civic Chamber, a Moscow-based state institution. “The war might begin even before the November elections in the U.S. I personally plan to stock 200 cans of pork to be ready for a potential war crisis, and I advise everybody to do the same.”
The Russian government is framing the current tensions as the byproduct of American aggression. And it doesn’t take much effort to read stories in the American media about how Russia’s aggression is threatening the peace and stability of Europe.
Is that just rhetoric, or has it been by design? Is war with Russia the biggest of October surprises?
Paul Joseph Watson of InfoWars is reporting that “tensions have risen yet further in recent days after it was revealed that the Obama White House was considering a major cyber attack against Russia” in response to its alleged interference in the American presidential election.
He wrote:
While Americans are kept distracted by the media’s obsession with Donald Trump’s alleged mistreatment of women, Russians have very different priorities.
State-owned television stations are urging citizens to find out where their nearest nuclear bomb shelter is located, while managers of the Zenit Arena, a huge half-built stadium in St. Petersburg, recently received an official letter from the Ministry of Emergency Situations demanding that they create underground facilities that will be used to protect citizens from nuclear fallout.
