A top Russian military commentator is enraged over reports in the German newspaper, Bild, that NATO carried out a recent nuclear weapons exercise in Germany.

The idea that “cretins” in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government allowed such an exercise, Konstantin Sivkov told a Kremlin media outlet, indicates that “German policy is directed by very narrow-minded people, perhaps not quite mentally healthy.” This is because “practicing nuclear war in Germany is a suicidal step. Especially for Germany.” Sivkov was just getting started. Were just one of Russia’s nuclear ballistic missile submarines to launch its 160 nuclear warheads at Germany, the European nation “would cease to exist, and there will be a radioactive desert in its place.” Expanding on this theme, Sivkov warned that suffering any battlefield use of U.S. tactical nuclear weapons, Russia “will not stand on ceremony — we will release all missiles at once … Several rockets in the Yellowstone volcano area, and the United States of America does not exist. And the entire U.S. is covered with a meter layer of volcanic ash, along with Canada. And then, we will plant apple trees on this volcanic ash.”