Russia Today’s Christmas propaganda clip – BFMTV
In a Russia Today promotional clip circulating on social media, the Kremlin hints that Europe is living in the dark and that next year the situation will only get worse.
In 2021 abundance. 2022 parties in the dark. And in 2023, Europeans will be forced to eat their pets… In a commercial on Russia Today (RT) channel, Moscow is using the year-end celebrations to broadcast an anti-European propaganda message.
The promotional clip, broadcast for the first time in Europe by BBC Monitoring journalist Francis Scar, aims to warn European citizens of the energy consequences of the European Union’s support for Ukraine while the Kremlin-initiated war has lasted ten months.
“Merry ‘Anti-Russian’ Christmas”
In the first sequence, a scene from 2021, a family celebrates Christmas and a little girl is given a hamster with a bow tie. The following year, at the same time, the little girl’s father had to build a system to convert the hamster wheel into a generator to light the tree.
In the final sequence, set in 2023, the family is evidently living in hardship and utter cold. The father then finds the hamster’s knot in his soup, suggesting that his wife was forced to cook their pet to survive.
“Merry ‘anti-Russian’ Christmas! If your media isn’t telling you everything, RT is available through a VPN,” the clip reads. As a reminder, Russia Today (RT) has been banned from broadcasting in European Union member countries since the Russian invasion began.
“Russia isn’t even trying to hide its energy blackmail anymore,” said France 24 correspondent Dave Keating, as did military historian Cédric Mas.
The EU faces energy blackmail from Moscow, a major global gas supplier that has been hit by European sanctions since the war began, in exchange for threatening to cut or even shut off gas supplies.
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In early December, Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened the West to cut production of Russian oil “if necessary,” days after the EU, G7 and Australia imposed a $60 price cap on Russian black gold. Objective: to limit Moscow’s revenue to finance its military offensive in Ukraine.
If the French government has drawn attention to “the worst-case scenario” given the risks of blackouts from 2023 and has prepared its heads, no major load shedding has been carried out for the time being.
However, the Europeans are trying to buy gas in larger quantities from other suppliers around the world such as Norway, Qatar or Algeria, while their American ally has signaled in recent days that it cannot significantly increase its LNG exports due to its limited production capacity .
The risk of energy shortages does not stop at France’s borders and several European countries have called on their citizens to exercise restraint in order to reduce their consumption this winter. Especially in Germany and other Eastern European countries that are heavily dependent on Russian gas.
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