A twisted Russian politician has urged Vladimir Putin to fire "a ballistic missile" at the largest weapons testing site in the US as a warning against interfering in the country's affairs.
Yevgeny Alexeyevich Fyodorov - a deputy of Russia's Duma - urged the despot to push the button and launch a missile at the Nevada test range as a warning because western leaders are assuming "Putin has no trump cards in his hand." Another of the "trump cards" he proposed was the bombing of laboratories belonging to the US armed forces.
Fyodorov believes that if Russia did strike its Cold War foe, the US wouldn't retaliate, the Daily Star reports. His comments, made before Russia's invasion of Ukraine last month, are the most-recent in a long line of bizarre statements about US-Russia relations in recent years.
With sanctions still in place on Russia from western countries like the US and UK following the Ukraine incursion, President Vladimir Putin has warned that the limitations on the country were "akin to an act of war".
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