Chilling stuff from Russian political scientist Sergey Mikheev:
Sergey Mikheev: "We need to convey a simple message to Europe: You will receive a nuclear strike in European territory if you form some sort of a NATO peacekeeping contingent, if you decide to deploy this contingent somewhere and so forth... This would mean nuclear war. Yes! Nuclear war."
Vladimir Solviev: "This exact message was conveyed to French journalists..."
Mikheev: [Europe] must understand this. [I say] to the brave Poles: In half a second, there will be nothing left of your Warsaw. And the brave Germans, brave Estonians, brave people of the Balts... By the way, speaking about the Balts, as far as I know, there are big problems at the border in Kaliningrad. Maybe the question of a corridor to Kaliningrad becomes relevant?
"A corridor, a land corridor to Kaliningrad. Why not?"
Solviev: "If this was the case with Transnistria, then also in [Kaliningrad]..."
Mikheev: "It seems to me that the states called Lithuania and Poland are behaving too brazenly. Too brazenly! And they also don't understand that they can actually be dealt with faster than Ukraine. Because the issue of the corridor is a local military operation, it's much easier than everything we are doing in Ukraine."
The reference to Kaliningrad is interesting, as an indication of what these Greater Russia Putin loyalists are thinking. I haven't seen it mentioned before in the context of the invasion of Ukraine, but of course it makes absolute sense. A strange left-over from WW2, Kaliningrad Oblast is a Russian territory isolated from Russia itself, stuck between Poland and Lithuania. If you look on the map, there are two of the Baltic countries, Latvia and Lithuania, between Russia and Kaliningrad. And the port of Kaliningrad itself is ice-free all year round: it would be a major coup for Russia to drive through Latvia and Lithuania - or indeed obliterate them - and link the port directly to Mother Russia.
To complain that "Lithuania and Poland are behaving too brazenly" takes the breath away, as Russian forces set about the destruction of Ukraine. They really think they have a right to control all neighbouring countries.
This clip is from "An Evening with Vladimir Solviev". A previous MEMRI clip had Vladimir chatting with Putin's guru Alexander Dugin.