Days after he warned NATO of the likelihood of nuclear war if Russia is defeated in Ukraine, former Russian president and current deputy chairman of the security council Dmitry Medvedev on Monday said the world stands on the brink of World War III due to US and Western aggression against Russia.
“The world has come close to the threat of World War III due to impending US aggression against the Russian Federation,” Medvedev said in comments first reported by Sky News Arabia. He also emphasized he sees the conflict at a point of no return. “There are no conditions for negotiations between Russia and Ukraine now, either de facto or de jure,” Medvedev said.
On the same day, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov voiced something similar, saying the confrontation with NATO can no longer be seen as merely a “hybrid war” or proxy war, but is instead fast approaching a real one. He said this in a joint press conference with his South African counterpart, Naledi Pandor
Lavrov explained that this “almost real” – as he put it according to state media, was something the West “has been preparing for a long time against Russia.”
He further charged that Ukraine’s leadership has created “presidents of war” and “Russophobic leaders” – particularly in reference to Present Zelensky and before him Petro Poroshenko.
Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov additionally sounded the alarm in separate Monday remarks, saying that the current rush to supply Western-made tanks to the battlefield will severely escalate the conflict. “The Ukrainian people will pay the burden of this so-called support,” he said.
Former Russian Pres. Dmitri Medvedev said the defeat of Russia in Ukraine may trigger a nuclear war. The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, backed up Medvedev's warning that "Russian defeat would mark the world's end." Need I say more? https://t.co/1bh2P1Lga1
— Steve Hanke (@steve_hanke) January 22, 2023
Peskov also highlighted that it’s clearly creating tensions and division among allies, noting that if the tank plan proceeds, “All countries that directly or indirectly ship weapons to Ukraine are responsible for this.”
Currently, Poland is leading the way on pressuring Germany to authorize sending advanced Leopard tanks to Ukrainian forces. Berlin has so far expressed reluctance, fearing uncontrollable isolation, while seeking to stress Germany doesn’t wish to be a party to the conflict.
Meanwhile, heavier weapons continue to pour into the conflict unabated…
⚡️American M2A2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles somewhere in Poland.
Most probably headed to Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/RZNrQpyhe0
— War Monitor (@WarMonitors) January 22, 2023
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We can hope that America will abandon its Ukraine project the way they (we) abandoned South Vietnam, the proxy regime in Afghanistan and the “moderate rebels” we were propping up to oust Assad in Syria once it became obvious that none of these efforts could succeed. One problem is that the sociopaths running US foreign policy (under the tutelage of John McCain from the 7th circle of hell) hate Russia more than they value life on Earth.
Many of them are too young to have an ingrained fear of nuclear war. To them, it’s a vestige of the past, like black & white TV shows. Seems like Biden still retains a vestigial memory that nuclear war is to be avoided at all costs. Hopefully his ouster (with the “classified docs” pseudo scandal) will take long enough that Russia can achieve its aims before Jake Sullivan gets us into a hot war with Russia. Kamala Harris is obviously an imbecile, so the longer it takes to install her, the less chance the neocons/neolibs will have to get us all blowed up real good.
We have been indoctrinated since childhood to regard Russians as evil bad guys…
Biden makes a good Bullwinkle, both are slow and dimwitted.
At least Bullwinkle is comical on purpose.
Yep, remember playing “the Russians are coming, the Russians are coming”?
I remember the movie-set not too far from obongo’s seaside digs.
This may well be an apocryphal story, but it explains why the U.S. will probably not “abandon its Ukraine project” as you have wisely suggested.
The monkey is the U.S., the banana is the neocons’ perception of the U.S. as the dominant world power, and the banana is Ukraine.
What you didn’t say is that in this scenario, usually the monkey starves to death holding onto the banana.
I have just taken the first few steps out the door of a nine year marriage to a covert narcissist.
I am still trying to figure out, if I am the monkey, or the banana.
You’re the free bird flying overhead.
That was a hunting technique used by African savages, using the monkeys greed to delay it from fleeing from an incoming spear.
I am convinced that during certain cycles, mankind’s violent and hateful nature becomes extreme, to the point where basically humans all begin to hate each other with such intensity that it over rides whatever little common sense they have. It even over rides their instinct for survival and self preservation.
I am afraid we have entered one of those cycles.
The western powers are in real danger of losing their global hegemony, and it would not be the first time they began a world war to preserve it. They will use our inbred prejudice and tribal instincts to inflame hatred and support for war.
I think if you asked most Americans, they would be against thermo nuclear war. Yet we allow our government to walk us inexorably down the road to Armageddon. All because “Putin bad” “Russia bad.” Russia is not some third world shathole that is going to just sit back and let US and NATO continue to escalate the war in Ukraine and have more Russians killed while US and NATO suffer no casualties. The Russians remember WW2 and will not allow that to happen again. So, people in the US better get a clue and figure out a way to stop this administration from causing WW3.
In comments I have made on more “mainstream” media, I have been amazed at how many people actually believe we can win a nuclear war. They seem to think this is some kind of sporting event in which they are not personalty really at risk. They do not have any concept of how an actual scenario would unfold. In reality there is no such thing as a limited nuclear war. Our ability to make lethal weapons has exceeded our intellect to never use them. We are like chimpanzees playing with nitro glycerin.
30+ countries are supplying Ukraine with weapons. When does it become a “WORLD” war? At 40 countries? 50? Or, when Dementia Joe says it’s a world war?
Intellect. You have it.
There are times in history when certain nations have gone more or less insane; the U.S. in 1860, Germany in the 1930’s, Soviets-Stalinist Russia, Maoist China, Khmer Rouge, Rwanda. Madness is always followed by slaughter and destruction. There were studies watching grains of sand fall on to a pile that watched for the little “land slides” that cascade down the sides of the pile. Purely random with many small slides and a few very large slides. I believe the condition is called self-organized criticality. Human events follow the same pattern. I fear we are in a major slide this time. Perhaps a complete collapse.
The neocons and climate crisis idiots are drooling at the prospects. They can’t wait to fire off a few nukes, and show you some real man-made climate change.
And now it appears main battle tanks are on the way from Germany and US…