The former Russian president Dmitry Medvedevwho currently controls all the repressive mechanisms of Vladimir Putin’s regime as vice president of the Russian Security Council, once again used the Russian nuclear arsenal to threaten Ukraine and its Western allies.
Medvedev’s constant nuclear threats have made few take them seriously anymore. even among the most fanatical Kremlin propagandists Defenders of the war and of Russian imperialist expansionism see him as a parodic and discredited figure.
In one of his habitual exercises in dialectical tightrope walking, the former Russian president justified the fact that, despite repeated Russian threats, Moscow has not yet carried out any nuclear attack to stop the Ukrainian advance.
According to Medvedev, if the Ukrainian advance threatens Russian territory, Russia would be forced to use its nuclear arsenaland it is the Russian troops that, by stopping the kyiv troops, prevent the outbreak of a nuclear war.
For this reason, he encouraged, with no small amount of cynicism, the Western powers to pray for a Russian victory that prevents a nuclear war that Russia itself would unleash in the event of military defeat in Ukraine.
Medvedev warned that the russian nuclear doctrine it would force the Kremlin to launch a nuclear strike if kyiv’s troops advance into the occupied Ukrainian territories, since Moscow considers those militarily annexed regions sovereign Russian territory.
“By repelling the counteroffensive of the collective enemy, our Armed forces they are defending Russian citizens and our land. This is obvious to all decent people », he stated in a message on Telegam.
He assured, in this sense, that the Russian troops “are avoiding a world conflict. After all, let’s imagine that the Ukrainian offensive with the support of the NATO succeed and take part of our land. In that case, we would have to use nuclear weapons under the presidential decree of June 2, 2020. There would simply be no other way out.”
Therefore, our enemies should pray for our soldiers. It is they who prevent the global nuclear fire from igniting », he concluded.
