As nuclear threats no longer seem to work, KremlinTV debated how many tens of thousands of American troops they'd have to kill instead.

The full clip by Julia Davis is over 13min long and can be seen below if you need the macabre context. Dmitry Drobnitsky was basically deriding Margarita Simonyan's nuclear annihilation threats and making what passes for a joke on these sort of shows.

Source: Julia Davis/Daily Beast

Americanist Dmitry Drobnitsky likewise derided Simonyan’s idea of a “head-to-head” confrontation accompanied by nuclear threats, arguing that this strategy would repulse Russia’s current sympathizers like India or China.

Even Satanovsky dismissed the simplistic thinking behind Simonyan’s narrative, telling her: “If the stakes are that we’ll stop existing, we can’t limit ourselves by thinking they’ve read what the president said and believed it—no, Margarita, they don’t believe it.” He argued that his idea of killing thousands of U.S. troops to avoid destroying all of America was much more doable. Not one pundit in the studio argued against Satanovsky’s macabre proposal. Drobnitsky had only one exception: “In our country, we embraced one American we wouldn’t want to kill: that would be Tucker Carlson.”