'In a more ridiculous addendum to his latest anti-American screed, Russian national security council secretary Nikolai Patrushev identified why the United States wants to expand its links with the Baltic states of Eastern Europe.' -TomRtweets
It's not because those democracies are reliable allies that meet their NATO defense spending obligations and support U.S. efforts to constrain Chinese aggression. No — it's because they'll offer the U.S. a safe haven if the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts.Patrushev's extraordinary claim follows populist speculation that if Yellowstone erupts again, that eruption will make much of the U.S. uninhabitable.
But back to Yellowstone. Speaking to the pro-Kremlin Izvestia newspaper on Wednesday, Patrushev declared that in the event of a Yellowstone eruption,"it is believed that the death of all life in North America is inevitable ... most of the world's population will suffer."
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