We do not endorse the stance taken in the following article. For if RT editor in chief Margarita Simonyan is a \u201cKremlin Mouthpiece\u201d, as it claims, then the same holds true for most western mainstream journalists. Although that being so, they obviously don\u2019t serve as mouthpieces for the Kremlin but for the powers that be in the West.<\/h4>\nNonetheless, the following article does illustrate how the Western powers and Russia and its allies are en route to conflict. We\u2019ve been heading down this way for years now but it is becoming increasingly apparent. In the disposition and deployment of troops and military hardware on both sides on or near Russia\u2019s borders, and in the journalistic rhetoric coming from both sides.<\/h4>\nThis is illustrated in the way that RT\u2019s editor-in-chief is described as a \u201cKremlin mouthpiece\u201d, or the way that Simonyan herself warns that war with the West over Ukraine is \u201cinevitable\u201d. We are inexorably heading toward some sort of large-scale military clash with Russia.<\/h4>\nNonetheless, if you can ignore the inference that she is one of the \u201cKremlin\u2019s most valued propagandists\u201d Simonyan\u2019s assessment of the looming potential conflict is interesting. Ed.<\/h4>\nTop Kremlin Mouthpiece Warns of \u2018Inevitable\u2019 War With U.S. Over Another Ukraine Land Grab<\/strong><\/h1>\nJulia Davis \u2013 Yahoo News April 13, 2021<\/strong><\/h2>\nAll-out cyberwarfare, nation-wide forced blackouts, and the targeted disruption of internet services\u2014for one of the Kremlin\u2019s top propagandists, all of those tactics are fair game in what she describes as a fated war-to-come against the U.S.<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Margarita-Simonyan.jpg\")
<\/a>\u201cWar [with the U.S.] is inevitable,\u201d declared<\/a> Margarita Simonyan, editor in chief of the state-funded Russian media outlets RT and Sputnik, who believes the conflict will break out when, not if, Vladimir Putin moves to seize more territory from Ukraine.<\/p>\nAs Russia\u2019s military buildup on Ukraine\u2019s doorstep mounts, Kremlin loyalists have been urging for even more overt aggression and bloodshed in the campaign to annex Ukraine\u2019s Donbas region. The only thing standing in the way, they say, is U.S. support for their beleaguered neighbor.<\/p>\n
NATO issued a statement on Wednesday demanding an end to Russia\u2019s troop movements on the border with the disputed territory of Donbas in eastern Ukraine. It is the largest buildup of Russian troops since the annexation of Crimea in 2014. The U.S. underlined the statement this week by deploying two warships to the Black Sea.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov threatened retaliation. \u201cWe warn the United States that it will be better for them to stay far away from Crimea and our Black Sea coast. It will be for their own good,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The escalation was foreshadowed on state television\u2019s Sunday Evening With Vladimir Soloviev <\/em>over the weekend. Simonyan explained that it was time for Russia to gear up for a showdown against the U.S., and prophesized a kind of war driven by hacking, the forced disruption of internet access, the shutting down of power supplies, and an all-out offensive on U.S. infrastructure.<\/p>\n\u201cI do not believe that this will be a large-scale hot war, like World War II, and I do not believe that there will be a long Cold War. It will be a war of the third type: the cyberwar,\u201d said Simonyan.<\/p>\n
She warned that\u2014in this theoretical battle\u2014the U.S. would plot to cut off the electricity of entire Russian cities. In turn, she speculated, Moscow would be able to force a blackout in Florida or New York\u2019s Harlem at the flip of a switch.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn conventional war, we could defeat Ukraine in two days,\u201d Simonyan said, \u201cbut it will be another kind of war. We\u2019ll do it, and then [the U.S.] will respond by turning off power to [the Russian city] Voronezh,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The top RT editor asserted that \u201c[Russia] needs to be ready for this war, which is unavoidable, and of course it will start in Ukraine,\u201d arguing that the Kremlin is \u201cinvincible where conventional war is concerned, but forget about conventional war… it will be a war of infrastructures, and here we have many vulnerabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her solution consists of Stalin-type measures to eliminate \u201cvulnerabilities\u201d in the run-up to another escalation, emphasizing the need for a hack-proof, government-controlled internet. \u201cWe still don\u2019t have a sovereign internet, but God willing, we will,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
She wholeheartedly endorsed<\/a> a suggestion from Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the ultranationalist leader of Russia\u2019s Liberal Democratic Party, who argued that all of Russia\u2019s opposition must be eliminated by May 1, 2021. With imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny on a hunger strike\u2014and suffering from severe health ailments after being denied appropriate medical treatment\u2014the Kremlin seems to be firmly set on that course.<\/p>\nSimonyan argued<\/a> that once Russia minimizes its vulnerabilities and renders Putin\u2019s opposition powerless\u2014which she argued could happen in a matter of months\u2014the Kremlin will finally be ready to annex Ukraine\u2019s eastern region.<\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019ve been agitating and even demanding that we take Donbas. We need to patch up our vulnerabilities as fast as we can, and then we can do whatever we want,\u201d she boldly proclaimed. The host, Vladimir Soloviev, wholeheartedly agreed<\/a>: \u201cWe only lose if we do nothing.\u201d He argued that by absorbing parts of Ukraine\u2014or the entire country\u2014Russia would be able to remove the zone of American influence further away from its borders.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Belarus-Ukraine-Poland-Russia.jpg\")
<\/a>As one of the Kremlin\u2019s most valued propagandists, Margarita Simonyan is notoriously close to the Russian president and has received multiple awards directly from Putin. After accepting one such award in 2019, Simonyan thanked<\/a> Putin \u201cfor the most important reward in life\u2026 this honor to serve one\u2019s Motherland.\u201d<\/p>\nHer \u201cservice\u201d has involved RT and Sputnik-driven disinformation operations aimed at influencing the 2016 U.S. presidential election, which she often boasts about by pointing to the inclusion of her name<\/a> in various U.S. intelligence reports.<\/p>\nRussia\u2019s recent cyberspace activities seem to serve as good practice for the \u201cinevitable war\u201d foreshadowed by Simonyan.<\/p>\n
Last year, six Russian intelligence officers were criminally charged<\/a> by the U.S. for using the world\u2019s most destructive malware to force blackouts in Ukraine and damage the critical infrastructure of multiple countries, which caused nearly $1 billion in losses. On Monday, hackers operating from Russia targeted<\/a> France\u2019s homeschooling platform.<\/p>\nThe Kremlin is prepared to intensify its offensive against the West but fears the retaliation that would follow. The idea of a bulletproof \u201csovereign internet\u201d\u2014completely under government control within Russian borders\u2014is already on the books<\/a>, with Moscow having introduced the idea as a preventive measure against retaliatory hacking attempts from other nations.<\/p>\nSimonyan argued that Russia will surely be able to exploit the U.S.\u2019s \u201ccatastrophic\u201d educational standards, and referred to American military analysts and specialists as incompetent and stupid. She heartily laughed<\/a> about news that more than 200,000 U.S. service members experienced hearing loss due to defective earplugs.<\/p>\n\u201cWe can never come to any agreements with [Americans],\u201d Simonyan said<\/a>, arguing that instead, Russia can just as easily defeat the U.S. in a cyberspace war.<\/p>\nShe added, mockingly, \u201cWe don\u2019t even need the nukes.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is illustrated in the way that RT\u2019s editor-in-chief is described as a \u201cKremlin mouthpiece\u201d, or the way that Simonyan herself warns that war with the West over Ukraine is \u201cinevitable\u201d. We are inexorably heading toward some sort of large-scale military clash with Russia.<\/h4>\nNonetheless, if you can ignore the inference that she is one of the \u201cKremlin\u2019s most valued propagandists\u201d Simonyan\u2019s assessment of the looming potential conflict is interesting. Ed.<\/h4>\nTop Kremlin Mouthpiece Warns of \u2018Inevitable\u2019 War With U.S. Over Another Ukraine Land Grab<\/strong><\/h1>\nJulia Davis \u2013 Yahoo News April 13, 2021<\/strong><\/h2>\nAll-out cyberwarfare, nation-wide forced blackouts, and the targeted disruption of internet services\u2014for one of the Kremlin\u2019s top propagandists, all of those tactics are fair game in what she describes as a fated war-to-come against the U.S.<\/p>\n
<\/a>\u201cWar [with the U.S.] is inevitable,\u201d declared<\/a> Margarita Simonyan, editor in chief of the state-funded Russian media outlets RT and Sputnik, who believes the conflict will break out when, not if, Vladimir Putin moves to seize more territory from Ukraine.<\/p>\nAs Russia\u2019s military buildup on Ukraine\u2019s doorstep mounts, Kremlin loyalists have been urging for even more overt aggression and bloodshed in the campaign to annex Ukraine\u2019s Donbas region. The only thing standing in the way, they say, is U.S. support for their beleaguered neighbor.<\/p>\n
NATO issued a statement on Wednesday demanding an end to Russia\u2019s troop movements on the border with the disputed territory of Donbas in eastern Ukraine. It is the largest buildup of Russian troops since the annexation of Crimea in 2014. The U.S. underlined the statement this week by deploying two warships to the Black Sea.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov threatened retaliation. \u201cWe warn the United States that it will be better for them to stay far away from Crimea and our Black Sea coast. It will be for their own good,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The escalation was foreshadowed on state television\u2019s Sunday Evening With Vladimir Soloviev <\/em>over the weekend. Simonyan explained that it was time for Russia to gear up for a showdown against the U.S., and prophesized a kind of war driven by hacking, the forced disruption of internet access, the shutting down of power supplies, and an all-out offensive on U.S. infrastructure.<\/p>\n\u201cI do not believe that this will be a large-scale hot war, like World War II, and I do not believe that there will be a long Cold War. It will be a war of the third type: the cyberwar,\u201d said Simonyan.<\/p>\n
She warned that\u2014in this theoretical battle\u2014the U.S. would plot to cut off the electricity of entire Russian cities. In turn, she speculated, Moscow would be able to force a blackout in Florida or New York\u2019s Harlem at the flip of a switch.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn conventional war, we could defeat Ukraine in two days,\u201d Simonyan said, \u201cbut it will be another kind of war. We\u2019ll do it, and then [the U.S.] will respond by turning off power to [the Russian city] Voronezh,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The top RT editor asserted that \u201c[Russia] needs to be ready for this war, which is unavoidable, and of course it will start in Ukraine,\u201d arguing that the Kremlin is \u201cinvincible where conventional war is concerned, but forget about conventional war… it will be a war of infrastructures, and here we have many vulnerabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her solution consists of Stalin-type measures to eliminate \u201cvulnerabilities\u201d in the run-up to another escalation, emphasizing the need for a hack-proof, government-controlled internet. \u201cWe still don\u2019t have a sovereign internet, but God willing, we will,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
She wholeheartedly endorsed<\/a> a suggestion from Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the ultranationalist leader of Russia\u2019s Liberal Democratic Party, who argued that all of Russia\u2019s opposition must be eliminated by May 1, 2021. With imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny on a hunger strike\u2014and suffering from severe health ailments after being denied appropriate medical treatment\u2014the Kremlin seems to be firmly set on that course.<\/p>\nSimonyan argued<\/a> that once Russia minimizes its vulnerabilities and renders Putin\u2019s opposition powerless\u2014which she argued could happen in a matter of months\u2014the Kremlin will finally be ready to annex Ukraine\u2019s eastern region.<\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019ve been agitating and even demanding that we take Donbas. We need to patch up our vulnerabilities as fast as we can, and then we can do whatever we want,\u201d she boldly proclaimed. The host, Vladimir Soloviev, wholeheartedly agreed<\/a>: \u201cWe only lose if we do nothing.\u201d He argued that by absorbing parts of Ukraine\u2014or the entire country\u2014Russia would be able to remove the zone of American influence further away from its borders.<\/p>\n<\/a>As one of the Kremlin\u2019s most valued propagandists, Margarita Simonyan is notoriously close to the Russian president and has received multiple awards directly from Putin. After accepting one such award in 2019, Simonyan thanked<\/a> Putin \u201cfor the most important reward in life\u2026 this honor to serve one\u2019s Motherland.\u201d<\/p>\nHer \u201cservice\u201d has involved RT and Sputnik-driven disinformation operations aimed at influencing the 2016 U.S. presidential election, which she often boasts about by pointing to the inclusion of her name<\/a> in various U.S. intelligence reports.<\/p>\nRussia\u2019s recent cyberspace activities seem to serve as good practice for the \u201cinevitable war\u201d foreshadowed by Simonyan.<\/p>\n
Last year, six Russian intelligence officers were criminally charged<\/a> by the U.S. for using the world\u2019s most destructive malware to force blackouts in Ukraine and damage the critical infrastructure of multiple countries, which caused nearly $1 billion in losses. On Monday, hackers operating from Russia targeted<\/a> France\u2019s homeschooling platform.<\/p>\nThe Kremlin is prepared to intensify its offensive against the West but fears the retaliation that would follow. The idea of a bulletproof \u201csovereign internet\u201d\u2014completely under government control within Russian borders\u2014is already on the books<\/a>, with Moscow having introduced the idea as a preventive measure against retaliatory hacking attempts from other nations.<\/p>\nSimonyan argued that Russia will surely be able to exploit the U.S.\u2019s \u201ccatastrophic\u201d educational standards, and referred to American military analysts and specialists as incompetent and stupid. She heartily laughed<\/a> about news that more than 200,000 U.S. service members experienced hearing loss due to defective earplugs.<\/p>\n\u201cWe can never come to any agreements with [Americans],\u201d Simonyan said<\/a>, arguing that instead, Russia can just as easily defeat the U.S. in a cyberspace war.<\/p>\nShe added, mockingly, \u201cWe don\u2019t even need the nukes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Top Kremlin Mouthpiece Warns of \u2018Inevitable\u2019 War With U.S. Over Another Ukraine Land Grab<\/strong><\/h1>\nJulia Davis \u2013 Yahoo News April 13, 2021<\/strong><\/h2>\nAll-out cyberwarfare, nation-wide forced blackouts, and the targeted disruption of internet services\u2014for one of the Kremlin\u2019s top propagandists, all of those tactics are fair game in what she describes as a fated war-to-come against the U.S.<\/p>\n
<\/a>\u201cWar [with the U.S.] is inevitable,\u201d declared<\/a> Margarita Simonyan, editor in chief of the state-funded Russian media outlets RT and Sputnik, who believes the conflict will break out when, not if, Vladimir Putin moves to seize more territory from Ukraine.<\/p>\nAs Russia\u2019s military buildup on Ukraine\u2019s doorstep mounts, Kremlin loyalists have been urging for even more overt aggression and bloodshed in the campaign to annex Ukraine\u2019s Donbas region. The only thing standing in the way, they say, is U.S. support for their beleaguered neighbor.<\/p>\n
NATO issued a statement on Wednesday demanding an end to Russia\u2019s troop movements on the border with the disputed territory of Donbas in eastern Ukraine. It is the largest buildup of Russian troops since the annexation of Crimea in 2014. The U.S. underlined the statement this week by deploying two warships to the Black Sea.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov threatened retaliation. \u201cWe warn the United States that it will be better for them to stay far away from Crimea and our Black Sea coast. It will be for their own good,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The escalation was foreshadowed on state television\u2019s Sunday Evening With Vladimir Soloviev <\/em>over the weekend. Simonyan explained that it was time for Russia to gear up for a showdown against the U.S., and prophesized a kind of war driven by hacking, the forced disruption of internet access, the shutting down of power supplies, and an all-out offensive on U.S. infrastructure.<\/p>\n\u201cI do not believe that this will be a large-scale hot war, like World War II, and I do not believe that there will be a long Cold War. It will be a war of the third type: the cyberwar,\u201d said Simonyan.<\/p>\n
She warned that\u2014in this theoretical battle\u2014the U.S. would plot to cut off the electricity of entire Russian cities. In turn, she speculated, Moscow would be able to force a blackout in Florida or New York\u2019s Harlem at the flip of a switch.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn conventional war, we could defeat Ukraine in two days,\u201d Simonyan said, \u201cbut it will be another kind of war. We\u2019ll do it, and then [the U.S.] will respond by turning off power to [the Russian city] Voronezh,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The top RT editor asserted that \u201c[Russia] needs to be ready for this war, which is unavoidable, and of course it will start in Ukraine,\u201d arguing that the Kremlin is \u201cinvincible where conventional war is concerned, but forget about conventional war… it will be a war of infrastructures, and here we have many vulnerabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her solution consists of Stalin-type measures to eliminate \u201cvulnerabilities\u201d in the run-up to another escalation, emphasizing the need for a hack-proof, government-controlled internet. \u201cWe still don\u2019t have a sovereign internet, but God willing, we will,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
She wholeheartedly endorsed<\/a> a suggestion from Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the ultranationalist leader of Russia\u2019s Liberal Democratic Party, who argued that all of Russia\u2019s opposition must be eliminated by May 1, 2021. With imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny on a hunger strike\u2014and suffering from severe health ailments after being denied appropriate medical treatment\u2014the Kremlin seems to be firmly set on that course.<\/p>\nSimonyan argued<\/a> that once Russia minimizes its vulnerabilities and renders Putin\u2019s opposition powerless\u2014which she argued could happen in a matter of months\u2014the Kremlin will finally be ready to annex Ukraine\u2019s eastern region.<\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019ve been agitating and even demanding that we take Donbas. We need to patch up our vulnerabilities as fast as we can, and then we can do whatever we want,\u201d she boldly proclaimed. The host, Vladimir Soloviev, wholeheartedly agreed<\/a>: \u201cWe only lose if we do nothing.\u201d He argued that by absorbing parts of Ukraine\u2014or the entire country\u2014Russia would be able to remove the zone of American influence further away from its borders.<\/p>\n<\/a>As one of the Kremlin\u2019s most valued propagandists, Margarita Simonyan is notoriously close to the Russian president and has received multiple awards directly from Putin. After accepting one such award in 2019, Simonyan thanked<\/a> Putin \u201cfor the most important reward in life\u2026 this honor to serve one\u2019s Motherland.\u201d<\/p>\nHer \u201cservice\u201d has involved RT and Sputnik-driven disinformation operations aimed at influencing the 2016 U.S. presidential election, which she often boasts about by pointing to the inclusion of her name<\/a> in various U.S. intelligence reports.<\/p>\nRussia\u2019s recent cyberspace activities seem to serve as good practice for the \u201cinevitable war\u201d foreshadowed by Simonyan.<\/p>\n
Last year, six Russian intelligence officers were criminally charged<\/a> by the U.S. for using the world\u2019s most destructive malware to force blackouts in Ukraine and damage the critical infrastructure of multiple countries, which caused nearly $1 billion in losses. On Monday, hackers operating from Russia targeted<\/a> France\u2019s homeschooling platform.<\/p>\nThe Kremlin is prepared to intensify its offensive against the West but fears the retaliation that would follow. The idea of a bulletproof \u201csovereign internet\u201d\u2014completely under government control within Russian borders\u2014is already on the books<\/a>, with Moscow having introduced the idea as a preventive measure against retaliatory hacking attempts from other nations.<\/p>\nSimonyan argued that Russia will surely be able to exploit the U.S.\u2019s \u201ccatastrophic\u201d educational standards, and referred to American military analysts and specialists as incompetent and stupid. She heartily laughed<\/a> about news that more than 200,000 U.S. service members experienced hearing loss due to defective earplugs.<\/p>\n\u201cWe can never come to any agreements with [Americans],\u201d Simonyan said<\/a>, arguing that instead, Russia can just as easily defeat the U.S. in a cyberspace war.<\/p>\nShe added, mockingly, \u201cWe don\u2019t even need the nukes.\u201d<\/p>\n
All-out cyberwarfare, nation-wide forced blackouts, and the targeted disruption of internet services\u2014for one of the Kremlin\u2019s top propagandists, all of those tactics are fair game in what she describes as a fated war-to-come against the U.S.<\/p>\n
As Russia\u2019s military buildup on Ukraine\u2019s doorstep mounts, Kremlin loyalists have been urging for even more overt aggression and bloodshed in the campaign to annex Ukraine\u2019s Donbas region. The only thing standing in the way, they say, is U.S. support for their beleaguered neighbor.<\/p>\n NATO issued a statement on Wednesday demanding an end to Russia\u2019s troop movements on the border with the disputed territory of Donbas in eastern Ukraine. It is the largest buildup of Russian troops since the annexation of Crimea in 2014. The U.S. underlined the statement this week by deploying two warships to the Black Sea.<\/p>\n On Tuesday, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov threatened retaliation. \u201cWe warn the United States that it will be better for them to stay far away from Crimea and our Black Sea coast. It will be for their own good,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The escalation was foreshadowed on state television\u2019s Sunday Evening With Vladimir Soloviev <\/em>over the weekend. Simonyan explained that it was time for Russia to gear up for a showdown against the U.S., and prophesized a kind of war driven by hacking, the forced disruption of internet access, the shutting down of power supplies, and an all-out offensive on U.S. infrastructure.<\/p>\n \u201cI do not believe that this will be a large-scale hot war, like World War II, and I do not believe that there will be a long Cold War. It will be a war of the third type: the cyberwar,\u201d said Simonyan.<\/p>\n She warned that\u2014in this theoretical battle\u2014the U.S. would plot to cut off the electricity of entire Russian cities. In turn, she speculated, Moscow would be able to force a blackout in Florida or New York\u2019s Harlem at the flip of a switch.<\/p>\n \u201cIn conventional war, we could defeat Ukraine in two days,\u201d Simonyan said, \u201cbut it will be another kind of war. We\u2019ll do it, and then [the U.S.] will respond by turning off power to [the Russian city] Voronezh,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n The top RT editor asserted that \u201c[Russia] needs to be ready for this war, which is unavoidable, and of course it will start in Ukraine,\u201d arguing that the Kremlin is \u201cinvincible where conventional war is concerned, but forget about conventional war… it will be a war of infrastructures, and here we have many vulnerabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n Her solution consists of Stalin-type measures to eliminate \u201cvulnerabilities\u201d in the run-up to another escalation, emphasizing the need for a hack-proof, government-controlled internet. \u201cWe still don\u2019t have a sovereign internet, but God willing, we will,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n She wholeheartedly endorsed<\/a> a suggestion from Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the ultranationalist leader of Russia\u2019s Liberal Democratic Party, who argued that all of Russia\u2019s opposition must be eliminated by May 1, 2021. With imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny on a hunger strike\u2014and suffering from severe health ailments after being denied appropriate medical treatment\u2014the Kremlin seems to be firmly set on that course.<\/p>\n Simonyan argued<\/a> that once Russia minimizes its vulnerabilities and renders Putin\u2019s opposition powerless\u2014which she argued could happen in a matter of months\u2014the Kremlin will finally be ready to annex Ukraine\u2019s eastern region.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve been agitating and even demanding that we take Donbas. We need to patch up our vulnerabilities as fast as we can, and then we can do whatever we want,\u201d she boldly proclaimed. The host, Vladimir Soloviev, wholeheartedly agreed<\/a>: \u201cWe only lose if we do nothing.\u201d He argued that by absorbing parts of Ukraine\u2014or the entire country\u2014Russia would be able to remove the zone of American influence further away from its borders.<\/p>\n Her \u201cservice\u201d has involved RT and Sputnik-driven disinformation operations aimed at influencing the 2016 U.S. presidential election, which she often boasts about by pointing to the inclusion of her name<\/a> in various U.S. intelligence reports.<\/p>\n Russia\u2019s recent cyberspace activities seem to serve as good practice for the \u201cinevitable war\u201d foreshadowed by Simonyan.<\/p>\n Last year, six Russian intelligence officers were criminally charged<\/a> by the U.S. for using the world\u2019s most destructive malware to force blackouts in Ukraine and damage the critical infrastructure of multiple countries, which caused nearly $1 billion in losses. On Monday, hackers operating from Russia targeted<\/a> France\u2019s homeschooling platform.<\/p>\n The Kremlin is prepared to intensify its offensive against the West but fears the retaliation that would follow. The idea of a bulletproof \u201csovereign internet\u201d\u2014completely under government control within Russian borders\u2014is already on the books<\/a>, with Moscow having introduced the idea as a preventive measure against retaliatory hacking attempts from other nations.<\/p>\n Simonyan argued that Russia will surely be able to exploit the U.S.\u2019s \u201ccatastrophic\u201d educational standards, and referred to American military analysts and specialists as incompetent and stupid. She heartily laughed<\/a> about news that more than 200,000 U.S. service members experienced hearing loss due to defective earplugs.<\/p>\n \u201cWe can never come to any agreements with [Americans],\u201d Simonyan said<\/a>, arguing that instead, Russia can just as easily defeat the U.S. in a cyberspace war.<\/p>\n She added, mockingly, \u201cWe don\u2019t even need the nukes.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/a>\u201cWar [with the U.S.] is inevitable,\u201d declared<\/a> Margarita Simonyan, editor in chief of the state-funded Russian media outlets RT and Sputnik, who believes the conflict will break out when, not if, Vladimir Putin moves to seize more territory from Ukraine.<\/p>\n<\/a>As one of the Kremlin\u2019s most valued propagandists, Margarita Simonyan is notoriously close to the Russian president and has received multiple awards directly from Putin. After accepting one such award in 2019, Simonyan thanked<\/a> Putin \u201cfor the most important reward in life\u2026 this honor to serve one\u2019s Motherland.\u201d<\/p>\n