Russian Analyst Wants to 'Flood' U.S. Enemies With Weapons: 'Create Danger'

Russian analyst Igor Shishkin recently suggested flooding the United States' enemies with weapons to cause "fear" and to create "danger," which would force the U.S. to negotiate with Russia when it comes to providing aid to Ukraine.

"The West is planning to cause us a strategic defeat," said Shishkin during a segment on a Russian television show hosted by Roman Babayan. "Right now, we have to create danger for the U.S., specifically the United States, not Europe."

The segment, which included English subtitles, was posted to Twitter on Saturday by Julia Davis, a columnist at The Daily Beast and creator of the Russian Media Monitor.

Explaining what that danger would look like, Shishkin said that one method is to "flood all enemies of the U.S. with weapons so that American military bases start blowing up." The Russian analyst added that "as long as the U.S. is not in the position we're in, with us being forced to conduct combat operations, with us being forced to expend our resources, and with our people dying, the United States should end up in the same position."

He continued: "The U.S. has no incentive to sit down at a negotiating table. They're totally covered in chocolate, they're experiencing no losses, but Europe is, we are experiencing losses, as far as Ukraine, no one is taking them into account, and the United States are only profiting. Until they're placed in danger, they won't negotiate."

In a reaction to Shishkin's comments, retired U.S. Navy Admiral James Stavridis trolled the analyst and said that Russia is already running out of weapons to do such a thing.

"They not only fail to understand the United States -- they fail to understand that they cannot flood other countries with weapons when they are running out of weapons for themselves," Stavridis tweeted.

Russia has been running low on equipment and missiles needed to continue fighting in its war against Ukraine. Last week, Alexander Štupun, spokesperson for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said that Russian troops are struggling to obtain military uniforms and that they have to buy them at their own expense or try to obtain them from authorities as humanitarian aid.

"The issue of providing the mobilized with helmets and body armor remains problematic," Štupun said.

On Friday, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov revealed that as of October 12, Moscow has 609 missiles left out of 1,844 missiles it originally had when it first invaded Ukraine on February 24, adding that defeating the Russian military is "inevitable."

Meanwhile, some famous figures on Russian-state television, who were once advocates of the war, recently changed their tone as they criticized the mobilization of Russian troops, specifically after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the "partial mobilization" of reservists to fight in Ukraine.

Editor-in-chief of state-media outlet RT, Margarita Simonyan, said on her Telegram channel that her office had been overwhelmed with complaints about mobilization "violations," with some people being asked to serve when they are not eligible to do so.

"We are dealing with distortions of mobilization. We've got entire departments—myself included—dropping everything, postponing our regular work, in trying to get justice for everyone who has been wrongfully mobilized," Simonyan said.

Last month, during an appearance on the Russia-1 program, Evening with Vladimir Solovyov, she said that "something needs to be done about it. We shouldn't be upsetting people."

Babayan also criticized Russia's "partial mobilization," telling his viewers last month: "You know what I am afraid of? I want the ones who are truly needed to be mobilized."

He added that enlistment officers "round up a bunch of people with no clear understanding as to whether this person is currently needed by the nation" and whether "he will be of any use?"

Newsweek reached out to the White House for comment.