Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev delivered the latest Kremlin threats against the U.S., accusing the U.S. of fueling anti-Russian feeling and saying Russia has the ability to put enemies ‘in their place.’
Medvedev, who now serves as deputy secretary of Russia‘s National Security Council, made the comment a day after President Joe Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin a war criminal.
That assessment came on a day of new revelations of attacks on Ukrainians in Mariupol and other cities, as well as an AP report on children being buried in mass graves and residents unable to get food or medical attention.
Medvedev warned that Moscow had the might to put the world’s pre-eminent superpower in its place, following U.S. and British assessments that the Ukrainian resistance has killed thousands of Russian troops, and indications that it has stalled Russia’s advance.
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Russia will put ‘brash enemies in their place,’ and accused the U.S. of trying to bend Russia
Medvedev, who served as president from 2008 to 2012 and was once viewed as a potential reform element when he took over from Putin before the government revised its assessments, said the United States had stoked ‘disgusting’ Russophobia in an attempt to force Russia to its knees.
‘It will not work – Russia has the might to put all of our brash enemies in their place,’ Medvedev said.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, the United States and its European and Asian allies have slapped sanctions on Russian leaders, companies and businessmen, cutting off Russia from much of the world economy.
Medvedev at first tried to downplay the initial U.S. sanctions imposed immediately after the invasion, saying they showed ‘political impotence.’
The White House now says they are crippling Russia’s economy and have crashed the value of the Ruble. Russia’s stock market hasn’t opened since the invasion.
President Vladimir Putin says that what he calls the special military operation in Ukraine was necessary because the United States was using Ukraine to threaten Russia and Russia had to defend against the ‘genocide’ of Russian-speaking people by Ukraine.
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Russia will put ‘brash enemies in their place,’ and accused the U.S. of trying to bend Russia
His comments came after President Vladimir Putin made chilling comments, where he said the West’s ‘attempt to have global dominance’ is coming to an end and went after ‘traitors’ inside Russia
Ukraine says it is fighting for its existence and that Putin’s claims of genocide are nonsense. The West says claims it wants to rip Russia apart are fiction.
Russia says that despite sanctions it can fare well without what it casts as a deceitful and decadent West led by the United States. It says its bid to forge ties with the West after the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union is now over and that it will develop ties with other powers such as China.
A U.S. diplomatic cable once called Medvedev ‘Robin to Putin’s Batman.’ A 2017 film by opposition leader Alexey Navalny alleged he had embezzled $1.2 billion. ‘Palaces, residences, and ancestral estates. Yachts and vineyards in Russia and abroad,’ Navalny said, calling Medvedev one of the country’s ‘most corrupted officials.’
Medvedev’s comments came after Putin made chilling comments about clearing out ‘traitors’ and ‘fifth columnists’ within Russia while warning oligarchs.
‘I do not judge those with villas in Miami or the French Riviera. Or who can’t get by without oysters or foie gras or so-called ‘gender freedoms.’ The problem is they mentally exist there, and not here, with our people, with Russia,’ Putin said.
‘The West will try to bet on the so-called fifth column, on traitors… to divide our society.. to provoke civil confrontation… to strive to achieve its aim. And there is one aim – the destruction of Russia.’
He said Russians ‘spit them out like a midge that flew into their mouths.’
He said that the West’s ‘attempt to have global dominance’ is coming to end, that it’s trying to ‘cancel’ Russia.