ANTWERP LIFE. Bruno Beeckman watches Russian TV: “They are convinced that European governments will fall due to energy crisis”
In the first weeks of the war, Bruno Beeckman reported from the Ukrainian capital Kyiv for Gazet van Antwerpen. In between, Beeckman is back at home, but the war does not let him go. For this newspaper, he watched two very well-watched talk shows on two Russian state channels RTR and Channel 1 five nights in a row last week. use a lot of profanity,” he says Friday morning in Antwerp Live.
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On Thursday evening, Beeckman watched the daily talk show on RTR. The Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin was the head of jut. The images of a partying Marin have also reached Russia and the presenter Yevgeni Popov had one piece of advice for her: “Stop drinking!”
But Finland is not the most targeted country. The Baltic states of Estonia and Latvia are much more likely to suffer. Vladimir Solovyov, who according to Beeckman behaves more as a “very brutal drill master” than as a talk show host, on Channel 1 invariably talks about “fascist dwarves”.
But the real nemesis in the Russian talk shows, in which only Kremlin-approved guests appear, without any doubt the United States and Great Britain. They are the countries that support Ukraine the most militarily and are fighting in fact a war with Russia, through Ukraine, or so the tenor.
And Europe? According to the presenters, that continent will be ahead of the rising energy prices. “They are convinced that the peoples of Europe will revolt and send their governments. In its place will be new projects that will be less benevolent towards Zelensky and Ukraine,” said Beekman.