Margarita Simonyan, the director of the Russia Today TV channel, is well known as a propagandist for Vladimir Putin. And his last spat with an American journalist cannot change his reputation.
The Russian channel hosted Michael Bohm, an American journalist who has lived in Moscow for years and regularly criticizes the Kremlin on TV sets.
In a final broadcast, the debate focused on the West’s responsibility for escalating the conflict by supplying arms to Ukraine. As for the American journalist, they cannot be held responsible. “This would be tantamount to saying that the United States escalated the conflict by supplying arms to the Soviet Union during World War II.“, he confirmed.
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Margarita Simonian replied that the West feared nothing more than an attack on its territory, citing countries that had waged war against the Russians or the Soviets, not forgetting to mention Vietnam. “Today, people there beg for money on the streets and look horrified.“
Before being cut off by Michael Bohm, who responded that American soldiers were also hurt and angry during the war in Vietnam: “MICHAEL Don’t interrupt me or I’ll rip your eyes out“, she told him dryly, ending this exchange of words.
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