West underestimating Moscow on nukes – Medvedev
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Washington and its allies mistakenly believe that Russia will never cross the line of using nuclear weapons, former President Dmitry Medvedev stated in an exclusive interview with RT on Saturday.
Medvedev, who currently serves as deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, suggested that current Western leaders are not as forward-thinking as their predecessors and fail to take into account Russia’s willingness to defend its existence using all means at its disposal.
”They have made a miscalculation, since they are not of the brightest kind… For some reason they think that Russians will never cross a certain line. They are wrong. If it comes down to the existence of our state, as the president of our country has repeatedly said… we will simply have no choice,” Medvedev said.
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He stressed that any person who serves as president of a nuclear-armed state takes on the obligation to defend their country “to the last man,” and suggested that current Western leaders such as French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz “lack the acumen and subtlety of mind” of their predecessors.
”The political class is degenerating, technocrats are coming in and they cannot understand how politics function. This is a disaster,” Medvedev stated.
In September, Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed amending the country’s nuclear doctrine. The changes would allow Moscow to treat an attack by a non-nuclear nation – including Ukraine – backed by a nuclear nation as a joint threat when deciding whether to retaliate with nuclear weapons.
The president has also warned that Western permission for Ukraine to conduct long range strikes on Russia’s territory would equate to NATO “waging war” against Russia.
Earlier this week, the Russian military held an exercise of its strategic deterrent forces, which involved test-launches of cruise and intercontinental ballistic missiles. According to the Russian president, the drills were needed to maintain the country’s nuclear forces at a “sufficient level” to ensure the country can protect its territory and citizens.
At the same time, the president stressed that Moscow had no intention of getting involved in a new “arms race” and that Russia maintains its position that the use of nuclear weapons is a “last resort” for ensuring national security.
[Top image: Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev speaks during an interview with RT TV Channel news anchor Rory Suchet at the Gorki state residence outside Moscow, Russia. © Sputnik/Ekaterina Shtukina]
Medvedev warns that Western-led rules-based order will collapse soon
The so-called rules-based order imposed by the US and its allies on the global scene is an unstable structure, which is about to fall apart, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said in an exclusive interview with RT.
Creating crises such as the conflict between Russia and Ukraine in various places is how the US is trying to rule the world, Medvedev, who now serves as the deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, told the broadcaster on Saturday.
“So, the more crises they create, the better, they think, the situation is for America… It makes money from weapons, supplies, and by allocating money to its defense industry,” he said.
“The Americans are getting what they want at the price of more blood and casualties. This is why the Americans are engaging in feeding the war. But that system is coming to an end,” the former president warned.
The authorities in Washington “feel the world is falling out from under their feet and they are resisting it in every way possible,” he said.
This is why the Americans see BRICS and other unions currently being created around the globe, in which the US has no say, as “hostile,” Medvedev explained.
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Washington and its allies accuse the members of those groups of “violating the rules-based order,” but, at same time, cannot explain what this order is,” he said.
“I have carefully picked through the legal text and studied it: it is incomprehensible. It is not clear what the order is and who approved it. It is really just an idea of the US and its allies, while mostly in NATO, of how best to do business in the world,” the former president stressed.
According to Medvedev, the rules-based order is actually what that the West believes “is right”, adding that “once you are out of this order, you’re a perpetrator.”
The uni-polar world that the US is trying to preserve is “always prone to war and unfortunately results in conflicts,” he said. Meanwhile, the multi-polar system that Russia and other BRICS members are working to build “implies making a connection between different poles” and creating “a world in balance [that] is always relatively stable,” he explained.
