** Japanese professor fantasizes about Moscow being “reduced to ashes” and Putin killing himself

Waseda University Professor Emeritus Tetsuo Arima — who was publicly criticized by Lavrov this week after blaming Russia for the U.S. atomic bombings of Japan — has apparently decided to double down.

**“**This time, [Russia] might lose. After all, it would be the Allied powers against Russia.

Moscow will be reduced to ashes, Putin will shoot himself with a pistol in a basement alongside his mistress, and South Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands will be returned to Japan.”