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Ex-President and Putin confidante with a clear announcement: USA should “come crawling itself”

2022-06-24T08:01:19.330Z


Ex-President and Putin confidante with a clear announcement: USA should “come crawling itself” Created: 06/24/2022, 09:47 am By: Tom Offinger The fear of a nuclear attack has been omnipresent since the Ukraine war. Russia's ex-president Medvedev gives a clear rejection of disarmament talks. Moscow - Hardly a week goes by without the threat of a possible nuclear war being raised again. Gone are


Ex-President and Putin confidante with a clear announcement: USA should “come crawling itself”

Created: 06/24/2022, 09:47 am

By: Tom Offinger

The fear of a nuclear attack has been omnipresent since the Ukraine war.

Russia's ex-president Medvedev gives a clear rejection of disarmament talks.

Moscow - Hardly a week goes by without the threat of a possible nuclear war being raised again.

Gone are the days of the US and Russia striving for joint disarmament; instead, the age of nuclear terror that some may remember from the Cold War is back.

Russia's former President and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has again clearly rejected a return to the negotiating table.

Cancellation of disarmament negotiations: Russia has “no relations with the USA”

“We currently have no relations with the United States.

They are at zero on the Kelvin scale,” the high-ranking politician and close confidante of Vladimir Putin describes the relationship between the two countries.

Medvedev, who held the highest political office from 2008 to 2012, currently sees no reason to talk about further disarmament with the United States.

Rather, he considers a Russian return to the negotiating table to be “bad”.

Instead, the United States should "crawl up and ask for it," the 56-year-old recently demanded in a

telegram

post.

Russia regularly presents its nuclear weapons at parades.

(Archive image) © Sergei Chirikov/dpa

How likely a nuclear strike by Russia actually is is difficult to say.

In response to the tough sanctions imposed on his country, President Putin put his nuclear forces on combat readiness within days of invading Ukraine – a process he used similarly after invading Crimea.

Experts, such as military and Eastern Europe expert Gustav Gressel, claimed early on that the threat of nuclear war was Putin's only weapon "to unsettle or influence the public" since the western world would stand in solidarity behind Ukraine.

According to

dpa

information, Russia still had 6,255 nuclear warheads in 2021 (the largest arsenal in the world, around 800 more than the United States).

Nuclear Powers and Nuclear Weapons in Their Possession 2021 © dpa

Dmitry Medvedev: Reversal of roles with Vladimir Putin

Back to Dmitry Medvedev: His only term as President of the Russian Federation to date was associated with a lot of hope, especially by the younger generation.

According to the constitution, Putin gave way to the post of prime minister in 2008 after the end of his second term, while Medvedev moved to the Kremlin until 2012.

He was considered a liberal politician and in 2009 he signed a successor to the START agreement with the then US President Barack Obama to further reduce the nuclear arsenal.

In the end, the big changes came to nothing.

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Dimitrij Medvedev (left) at the side of Vladimir Putin.

© Kremlin Pool/imago images

Vladimir Putin returned to power in 2012, while Medvedev became prime minister and held the post until January 2020, always second to Putin.

"It's a deeply thought-out decision that we've discussed since the beginning of our camaraderie," Medvedev said of the change ten years ago.

The 56-year-old is now considered one of the richest and most corrupt politicians in the country: The anti-corruption organization of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny estimated his fortune in 2017 at almost one billion dollars.

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Source: merkur

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