Action movie star Steven Seagal continues to press the propaganda drum for the regime in the Kremlin and appeared on Russian state television on Thursday evening. There he claimed the West was gripped by “fake news” about the war in Ukraine that was “insane”. He himself defended the invasion with the classic reason given by the Russians for their “special operation”, in short: NATO and the Nazis. In addition, Seagal indirectly criticized Arnold Schwarzenegger.
“People in the west would ride on information they would get from troll farms,” Seagal said during his performance. “I took a very close look at this conflict, so to speak, and found the greatest accumulation of fake news I’ve ever seen in my life,” he said. That’s why he researched and found that “98 percent of the coverage of Ukraine is done by people who have never been,” said Seagal, a friend of Russian ruler Vladimir Putin.
Fake news more dangerous than nuclear missiles
It was so “crazy” that he told Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov: “Fake news is more dangerous than nuclear missiles,” Seagal said on the channel, who regularly fantasizes about nuclear war against the West.
“By that I mean, if you spread fake news so widely that the people in your country have no idea what the truth is, that means their hearts and minds could be lured into something, some major conflict or war,” said the former Hollywood executive. star. star. With that, Seagal summed up the situation in Russia very well, which he certainly did not intend. He spoke about Western NATO countries.
Because the world needs to know the difference between fake news and real news, he started making a documentary. To this end, he recently went to the troops loyal to Moscow and visited a ruined prison in the city of Olenivka. At the end of July, 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed in an explosion there. Ukraine speaks of a targeted demolition, Russia claims it was a Ukrainian attack with a US-supplied HIMARS missile.
Seagal completely on Kremlin line
“I had to see it with my own eyes and determine that it was actually a missile,” Seagal said of his visit organized by the pro-Russian separatists. He saw debris from a HIMARS missile because he had seen this “before”, he claimed. “I know a little bit about these things, I can tell you, it’s a billion percent not a bomb from the inside,” said the movie star.
Research by CNN concluded that the Russian version of a missile impact may not be correct. For this, the American broadcaster analyzed videos and satellite images. In addition, several witnesses did not hear a rocket impact. Steven Seagal said he has not seen any CNN reporters in Olenivka prison.
“Interviewed hundreds of Nazis”
The actor, who was granted Russian citizenship in 2016, also echoed the Russian propaganda that has been wiped out since the beginning of the war. There are “hundreds of thousands of Nazis” in Ukraine, he himself has “interviewed hundreds of Nazis” who said they want to fight and kill. “That’s how they are,” Seagal explained. Russia was forced to invade Ukraine as it faced an “existential threat”. He also said: “Let them be Nazis if they want to, but we really want NATO to stay out of it and let Ukraine be neutral.”
Referring to Arnold Schwarzenegger, who sent an anti-war message to the Russian people, and other Hollywood stars who support Ukraine, Steven Seagal said: “I don’t want to say who paid who to say something. I don’t know if everything they say comes from the heart.”
Source: Krone
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