“Kamala with the nuclear button is worse than a monkey with a grenade,” Andrei Sidorov, the dean of the global politics department at Moscow State University (a once highly respected institution) said Sunday evening on state television’s prime weekly talk show.
The show’s host, Vladimir Solovyov, made his own feelings known by showing a clip of Republican candidate Donald Trump commenting on Harris’ laugh as a sign she was “crazy” followed by a compilation of clips showing Harris, well, laughing.
The caustic tone from Sidorov and Solovyov provided a stark contrast with that of Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov that same evening, who had personified cool aloofness, saying that, with four months to go until the election, “much could still change.”
“The priority for us is to achieve the aims of the special military operation,” he added, using a Kremlin euphemism for the war.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, Peskov has often suggested, has bigger things on his mind than the fracas among his political enemies overseas.
But despite putting on an air of neutrality and insisting time and time again that Moscow does not intervene in countries’ domestic affairs (flying in the face of evidence of Russian meddling in the 2016 election), Russian propagandists tell a very different, and very biased, story.
