ONLY RUSSIA’S NUCLEAR WEAPONS PREVENTING WEST FROM DECLARING WAR -PUTIN ALLY MEDVEDEV

Mon 26 December 2022:

The only things keeping the West from launching a war against Russia, according to a key ally of President Vladimir Putin, are Russia’s nuclear weapons and the rules Moscow has set for its deployment, Reuters reported.

The former president of Russia and current vice-chairman of the Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, also stated that Moscow would continue its war in Ukraine until the “disgusting, almost fascist regime” in Kiev was overthrown and the nation had been completely demilitarized.

Medvedev, who once cast himself as a liberal moderniser as president from 2008 to 2012, is one of the most hawkish proponents of the war. He regularly denounces the West, which he accuses of wanting to break Russia apart to benefit Ukraine.

“Is the West ready to unleash a fully-fledged war against us, including a nuclear war, at the hands of Kyiv?” he wrote in a 4,500-word article for the Rossiiskaya Gazeta newspaper.

“The only thing that stops our enemies today is the understanding that Russia will be guided by the fundamentals of state policy … on nuclear deterrence. And in the event that a real threat arises, it will act on them.”

“The Western world is balancing between a burning desire to humiliate, offend, dismember and destroy Russia as much as possible, on the one hand, and the desire to avoid a nuclear apocalypse, on the other,” said Medvedev.

If Russia did not get the security guarantees it is demanding, he said, “The world will continue to teeter on the brink of World War Three and nuclear catastrophe. We will do everything we can to prevent it”.

Medvedev also said Russia could forget about normal ties with the West for years and perhaps decades to come and would focus instead on relations with the rest of the world.

Experts estimate that Russia possesses the greatest nuclear weapon arsenal in the world, with close to 6,000 warheads.

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