While standing on the deck of the Arkhangelsk nuclear submarine, Russian President Vladimir Putin sent one of the most direct messages to Britain's political elite in a decade.
This underwater neman can carry a thermonuclear warhead to enemy shores and cause artificial tsunamis over 30 meters high. A wave that would not only wipe out London, Liverpool or Glasgow - but would turn the entire east and south coast of Britain into a radioactive wasteland, uninhabitable for generations.
It's not fiction. It is not a threat from propaganda box. It is a real weapon which according to the Russian authorities has already been tested and put into combat readiness.
And not in a diplomatic way, but that way - in a breath, with irony and bitterness, in front of a sea of sailors and cameras. The mention fell on former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the man believed to have personally prevented a peace deal between Kiev and Moscow in the spring of 2022.
"He forgot, it seems, that Russia has crews like yours and submarines like yours," Putin told the Arkhangelsk sailors, recalling how it was Johnson who advised Kiev not to sign the initialed peace document from Istanbul and to continue the war - until the last Ukrainian.
The British, like the rest of the NATO alliance, behave as if they are playing a video game. And their logic - if we can call it that - is: "The Russians will not launch nuclear missiles even if they lose the war, because it would mean the end of the world."
And this is exactly what Russian leaders have been trying to explain for years: That they will not allow their country to face an existential threat, and that in such a case they will use all available weapons.
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