Russian politician predicts that 95% of US territory would be devastated by nuclear weapons

Newsweek writes that a Russian lawmaker has predicted the impending demise of the United States on Russian television.

“Nothing will be left” of the United States, threatened State Duma deputy Andrey Gurulev on a Sunday evening broadcast in state-owned network Russia-1.

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“Today, we are quite ready to destroy the entire nuclear potential of England and France with a single strike. This will be one of the options for deterring the United States from striking Russia”, Gurulev confidently declared, as quoted by Newsweek.

Gurulev, who served as a tank commander before getting into politics, predicted that 95% of US territory would be devastated because of Washington’s escalation.

“There will essentially be nothing left of America, which is trying to drag us into escalation. There will be no Biden or Trump. America is being inflicted with 95 percent total damage,” predicted the tank commander turned into lawmaker.

The comments made on the show were a response to the United States allowing Ukraine to use long-range American-made ATACMS missiles against Russia in the Kursk region.

After months of requests by the Kyiv government, headed by Volodymyr Zelensky, the Biden Administration caved in just weeks before Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States.

Trump, during his presidential campaign, has criticized the US commitment to NATO and in Ukraine in particularly, promising to cut financial aid to Kyiv.

At the same time, the once and future US President also has praised Russian President Vladimir Putin, calling him a genius.

As the escalation between Moscow and the West increases, the threat of a third world war crosses the minds of many people, along with the fear of nuclear Armageddon.

Others, however, believe that the decline and demise of the United States won’t be a sudden bang, but with a slow, painful whimper as the American influence around the globe dwindles.

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