Russian nuclear threats, and how I learned to love Dmitry Kiselyov’s stupidity

Published February 25, 2019 9:37pm ET



On Sunday, Russian state television offered an absurd argument as to how Russia would destroy the U.S. in a nuclear war.

Hosted by Dmitry Kiselyov, a hybrid of Putin sycophancy and conspiratorial anti-Americanism, state television mapped out various U.S. targets for Russian nuclear weapons. On the list were obvious locations such as the Pentagon and Camp David. But perhaps served by researchers who lack access to the Internet, Kiselyov also included nonpriority targets such as Fairchild Air Force Base and the now-defunct Fort Ritchie in his presentation. This failure of military intelligence is the first weakness in Kiselyov’s little presentation.

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