Hi all,
Lurked a bit here when the war in Ukraine kicked off and have kind of stuck around since. I don't know if I'm still too sensitive to the sabre rattling but I found the statement by Andrey Gurulyov - close Putin ally apparently - a bit worrying, saying that if Kaliningrad escalates London would be the first hit city. From Sky News:
"Speaking on Russia's Channel 1 television, Andrey Gurulyov, a State Duma politician, said the UK capital would be hit first if the blockade of the Russian exclave Kaliningrad led to war.
"We'll destroy the entire group of enemy's space satellites during the first air operation," he said.
"No-one will care if they are American or British, we would see them all as NATO.
"Second, we'll mitigate the entire system of anti-missile defence, everywhere and 100%.
"Third, we certainly won't start from Warsaw, Paris or Berlin.
"The first to be hit will be London.
"It's crystal clear that the threat to the world comes from the Anglo-Saxons.""
I'm sure a lot of people understandably have war-fatigue right now, but please reassure me I'm just being paranoid and it's all front.