Uri Geller, a self-described psychic, intervened to prevent the start of a third World War by issuing a genuinely perplexing warning to Vladimir Putin, the leader of Russia.
The TV personality and illusionist, who appears to have added master negotiator and expert in global geopolitics to his résumé, yesterday sent a dramatic video to Twitter in which he directly criticized Putin for nuclear sabre-rattling.
The British-Israeli spoon-bender passionately declared, “I have a warning for you, Putin,” as he stood in front of a giant screen that had a background of the Kremlin leader and a nuclear mushroom cloud.
‘I urge you all to read my warning, all of you,’ he continued, before stepping forward and pushing his face to within an inch of the camera to declare: ‘And I’m serious about it. Very!’
The weird letter Geller released to Putin, threatening to unleash “every last molecule of my Mind Power to prevent you from initiating a nuclear strike,” immediately outdid the bizarre video.
He continued to beg social media users to “just take five seconds out of your day to visualize a radiant, energetic force field – like a dazzling, golden shield in the sky” that, in his words, would deflect any nuclear warheads launched by the Kremlin and send them back to Russia instead of destroying it.
Despite the apparently sound scientific foundation of Geller’s endearingly humanistic approach, the tweets rapidly attracted a hailstorm of dubious responses from other users.
‘I’ve now tried to project by radiant, energetic force field but it wasn’t so dazzling and golden, more sort of a 20 watt bulb glow,’ one user quipped.
‘It did startle a passing pigeon so I think I’m ready to take on a huge supersonic ICBM.’
‘Are you off your mind again, Charles Xavier?’ another retorted, referencing the fictional psychic professor portrayed by Patrick Stewart in the X-Men series.
Others, meantime, echoed Geller’s worries about Scotland as a result of a nuclear missile strike.
‘I know Nicola (Sturgeon) is a bit annoying at times but that would be overkill. Ps. we wouldn’t really miss Glasgow. Might not retaliate.’ one tweet read.
