Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev reiterated Monday his country's threat of nuclear war if the West's supply of arms to Ukraine continues.
The warning in an op-ed piece in the state-run newspaper Izvestiya was the second time in three weeks the key aide to President Vladimir Putin has invoked the nuclear option in an effort to deter the U.S.-led NATO alliance from arming Ukraine.
Medvedev, who was president from 2008 to 2012 and currently serves as the deputy chairman of the powerful Security Council of Russia, dangled the prospect of talks while demanding shipments of arms to Ukraine be halted immediately.
Echoing comments by Putin yesterday Medvedev wrote that any existential threat to Russia would not be decided on the front in Ukraine, but would spiral into an existential threat to human civilization, repeating the refrain "we don't need a world without Russia."
"Of course, the pumping in of weapons can continue and prevent any possibility of reviving negotiations," Medvedev said.
"Our enemies are doing just that, not wanting to understand that their goals obviously lead to a total fiasco. Everyone loses. A collapse. Apocalypse. When the former life will have to be forgotten for centuries, until the rubble ceases to emit radiation."
Last week Putin ramped up nuclear tensions by announcing Russia was suspending its participation in the key 2010 New Start treaty -- its last remaining arms control agreement with the United States -- which limits each side's arsenal of intercontinental nuclear weapons.
Russia has reserved the right to use nuclear weapons unilaterally in the face of "aggression" even if its opponents only employ conventional arms.
At the start of the month, Medvedev said any attempt to re-take Crimea would result in the "flaming" of all of Ukraine with all the forces at Russia's disposal, including nuclear weapons "in accordance with our doctrinal documents, including the Fundamentals of Nuclear Deterrence."
"All Ukraine that remains under the rule of Kyiv will burn," Medvedev warned.
According to clause 19 of the Fundamentals of the State Policy on Nuclear Deterrence, Russia may use nuclear weapons "in the event of aggression against Russia with the use of conventional weapons, when the very existence of the state is threatened."
Earlier Monday, a Russian surveillance plane was damaged in a drone attack in neighboring Belarus mounted by a dissident group opposing the pro-Russian government of Alexander Lukashenko.
Aliksandr Azarov, leader of the anti-government group BYPOL, claimed responsibility for the attack on social media.
The Beriev A-50 early warning aircraft was hit by multiple blasts near the Machulishchy airbase near the capital Minsk.
"These were drones. The participants of the operation are Belarusian", Azarov said.
The attack comes as Lukashenko prepares to travel to Beijing tomorrow at the invitation of President Xi Jinping for a three-day state visit.
Medvedev's remarks come after Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday (last week), publicly accused the West of wanting to liquidate Russia, claiming that his people may not survive.
The Russian president said Western countries were seeking to dismantle Russia, and Moscow had no choice but to take Nato’s nuclear capabilities into account.
Putin told state television channel Rossiya 1: ‘When all the leading Nato countries have declared their main goal as inflicting a strategic defeat on us, so that our people suffer as they say, how can we ignore their nuclear capabilities?’
‘They have one goal: To disband the former Soviet Union and its fundamental part – the Russian Federation,’ Putin said in the interview recorded on Wednesday and broadcast yesterday.
Appealing to nationalist sentiments, Putin said if the West succeeds in destroying Russia, ‘such an ethnic group as the Russian people may not be able to survive in the form in which it exists today’.
‘There will be Muscovites, Uralians and others,’ he said of Russia’s possible fragmentation. He also claimed that the West was an indirect accomplice to the ‘crimes’ committed by Ukraine.
Putin made the remarks while justifying Russia’s suspension of its participation in the New START treaty, which seeks to cap the number of nuclear warheads possessed by the US and Russia.
He said the suspension stemmed from the need to ‘ensure security and stability’ for Russia.
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The amazing part of it all was how the neighbor with the gun had it raised and was calmly saying, “Don’t come any closer,” yet the woman held her iPhone up to record the incident and was yelling, “Go, ahead! Shoot me! You don’t have the nerve to do it!” as she continued onto his property, moving toward him.
Well, he shot her and her husband.
The West keeps taunting Russia and poking the Bear. Russia keeps saying, “Stop. Don’t come any closer.” The West laughs and mocks…
until the gun goes off.
In this situation the gun is NEVER gonna go off. Stupid Russians REFUSE to stop nazis from entering their property. We have been getting **Warnings** LOL LOL from the Putin for 23 years now and NEVER has that stupid fukur EVER done anything even remotely in line with what he has promised to do for so many decades. Its no wonder (quote) The West laughs and mocks...
Until Russia hits these satanists HARD in many places at once they will of course keep mocking and laughing at the stupid moron the Putin. He needs to put his money where his mouth is and stand up to the plate and hit gringostan. Take out the east coast for a start. Hit the west coast at the same time. Enough of your useless **Warnings** LOL LOL. Even the people here reading these blogs laugh at that stupid fukur the Putin. Do SOMETHING you useless piece a shit. We're sick of the **Warnings** LOL LOL
They are nothing but a bad joke Vladmir.
Putin is in the position of a military power with ultimate weapons, trying to deal with a kind of global hostage situation. Civilians in Kieve, London and US cities are the hostages, to the Satanic-Zionist Elites who *want* WWIII and megadeath.
This is why Putin seems 'weak'. He's trying to preserve the Earth as a liveable planet for humankind. Meanwhile the Satanists remain intermingled with the relatively innocent people, but still pushing for their nuclear/vax armageddon. Because they are insane, Satanic and hate mankind. Also to avoid being executed as their many crimes come to light, eg designing covid-19 and the mRNA vax to slow-kill 80% of the world's people.
What's Putin supposed to do?
I don't know. I sometimes wish he'd nuke DC, London, the Vatican and a WEF/Davos conference, but even that probably wouldn't go well for the world.
You have to bear in mind that even a minor global conflict now, would trigger a general chaotic and irreversible collapse of industrial civilization. Most of the easily available mineral and energy resources are gone, so now we can only keep going by using high tech means. Disrupt the tech supply chain, and it's a LONG way down with no way back up.
The current Russian strategy of just grinding & bleeding Ukraine & NATO of armaments and soldiers doesn't seem so bad, compared to all the alternatives.
Had a Dolphin in it?
"They call him Flipper, Flipper, faster than lightning,
No-one you see, is smarter than he,
And we know Flipper lives in a world full of wonder,
Lying there under, under the sea!
Everyone loves the king of the sea,
Ever so kind and gentle is he,
Tricks he will do when children appear,
And how they laugh when he’s near!
They call him Flipper, Flipper, faster than lightning,
No-one you see, is smarter than he,
And we know Flipper lives in a world full of wonder,
Lying there under, under the sea!
In a lot of ways, it will be wonderful for those nations we have destroyed over the decades.
In another way, Russia and China will be the main powers. I’m not do sure that will be paradise either.
No matter what, the rabid dog that the U.S. has become needs to be put down.
God help us.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/copa-video-off-duty-officer-shooting/
City of london would be a much better candidate for such a great action to happen. Of course the Putin useless stooge won't do it of course. Useless piece a shit he is. He won't level anything. He likes the nazis obviously. Or else he would act i would think.
BY=Belarus
POL= Poland
Naming such as organisation with such as acronim tells me alll about whi is behind it: The State owned terrorist group... guess which one...
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