Last night, I heard about iodine pills on one of the private TV channels, which is characterized by sensationalism, the constant gestures of its hosts, and its endless commercials.
As the reason, the news came that the Finnish government, the neighboring country of Russia, which abandoned its traditional neutrality due to its candidacy to NATO, asked the public to purchase iodine in the event of a disaster or nuclear attack.
The original news said that within a few hours Finnish pharmacies had exhausted stocks of such pills that offered only little protection against this type of radiation, so the main advice was for citizens to seek shelter indoors if necessary. .
Meanwhile, the Spanish Government has also decided to produce 2.3 million potassium iodide tablets for public use in case of a possible nuclear attack, although it is much further from the borders of the Russian Federation than Finland.
Against the background of the war in Ukraine, I do not know if the possibility of a nuclear war on our continent is gradually normalizing, instead of doing everything possible, resorting to forgotten diplomacy to avoid such a disaster.
Even more alarming is the frivolity or bravado, depending on how you look at it, used by Lieutenant Colonel Olexii Arestovych, the security adviser to the President of Ukraine, in his statements to the German weekly Die Zeit about the possibility of such an attack. by from Moscow.
Aside from denying that his country’s secret service had anything to do with the blowing up of the Crimean bridge and attributing it to Moscow, Arestovych asks his negotiator to tell his German friends that the Ukrainians are not “no”, something hard to believe. fear of nuclear threat.”
Although his wife and two children live in Kiev, as he himself explains, Volodímir Zelinski’s collaborator assures him that he is not afraid that the war may one day escalate to this stage.
“Even if the Russians used ten or twenty tactical nuclear missiles, the war would not be over. “They wouldn’t have the necessary people on the field to conquer the country and we would be more motivated than before,” says Arestovych.
And he defiantly adds: “The Americans have made it clear that if (President Vladimir) Putin used tactical atomic weapons, the reaction would be violent. Then go ahead!”
Regarding the Russian attacks on civilian targets, which he describes as simple “terrorism”, he explains that these only serve to raise anger among the Ukrainians and that they will “rebuild” what was destroyed in two days, while the Russians will “rebuild” while wasting it. millions of dollars this way.
Afraid of such disclosures, I took it upon myself to research Arestovych’s biography and learned that he was born in Georgia in 1975 to a Belarusian father and a Russian mother, and from a very young age devoted himself to conducting psychology seminars in addition to education. Theology and has 1.6 million followers on YouTube.
In 2005 he joined the far-right Ukrainian Brotherhood party, attended the congresses of the Eurasian Movement of Alexander Dugin, considered the ideologue of the Russian president, and for a while opposed Ukraine’s entry into both NATO and the EU.
He would later work as an information consultant for the former first Ukrainian president Leonid Kravchuk, be part of the Tripartite contact group delegation on Ukraine, and participate in the failed Minsk peace talks in his country. He fell off the horse quite a bit like Saul of Tarsus.