Russian propagandist Vladimir Solovyov has said that there will be decades of confrontation between Moscow and the West in what he described as a fight between “good and evil.”
A clip of his program on Monday, posted on X by journalist Julia Davis, showed Solovyov, who has close links with Vladimir Putin, start with his trademark sigh before saying, “let’s talk about the West.”
“For them, obviously, we are the main enemy and decades of confrontation are lying ahead of us,” Solovyov said on the Russia 1 channel. “We should absolutely not be afraid of this.”
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Solovyov, along with his guests, have framed Putin’s full-scale invasion as a proxy war between Moscow and NATO, making regular nuclear threats against Kyiv’s allies for their support against Russian aggression.
In Solovyov’s view, any pre-invasion levels of cooperation between Russia and the West were just “accidental,” and that “centuries of hostility were natural.”
Solovyov then gave his explanation for this adversarial relationship, telling his guests: “It’s impossible to make peace between good and evil.”
“We are good and they are evil. It’s simple and clear,” he said, before imagining he was addressing the West itself. “You want Moscow’s strategic defeat and for that you are ready to take the riskiest steps?”
Meanwhile in Russia: Vladimir Solovyov predicts that Russia will continue fighting against the West for decades to come. He argues that decades of peace were just a coincidence, but hostility is natural.https://t.co/75yQ9kFJBI
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) April 2, 2024
“We are not surprised,” he said,” you want to destroy millions of innocent people,” before reverting to describing the West in the third person to say “force is the only language they understand.”
“Let’s not anticipate that they will surrender,” continued Solovyov as he referred to how the regime of Nazi Germany fought the Soviet army in the Second World War—a recurring motif on his program—”until the end.”
However, Solovyov said the Soviet Union made the mistake of removing its troops from the country where its bases were stationed and “we believed the rotten diabolical West that it would take on and fulfill some obligations. We can never make the same mistake again.”
The episode’s online caption “fusion of Satanism with idiocy in the Western world” described one of the themes that Solovyov was outlining, namely that the war in Ukraine had quasi-spiritual goals.
Among the examples of confrontation with the West Solovyov listed were the Transgender Day of Visibility and the U.S. explanation that Islamic State was responsible for the terrorist attack at Moscow’s Crocus Hall, which Moscow has continued to linked to Ukraine, without providing evidence.
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