Posted on 08/30/2023 9:28:59 AM PDT by MeganC
“Whether you like it, or not, history is on our side. We will bury you,” he said quoting former USSR leader Nikita Khrushchev.
Russian politician Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday Russia has the right to go to war with NATO.
Writing on Twitter, now X, he said: "Ukrainian criminals have announced that any strikes of theirs against whatever Russian target, “for example, in Crimea” were approved by NATO."
"If it is true – and there is no reason to doubt it is – then, this is a direct legally significant proof of the West’s complicity in the war against Russia. It is a refined casus belli, and for Russia, it is an opportunity to act within the jus ad bellum framework against each and every NATO country."
Part of just war theory, which was first developed in ancient Greece and is still used by some Christians today, casus belli is an act or situation that morally justifies conflict, with jus ad bellum referring to conditions under which a state can resort to war.
Ukrainian forces have repeatedly attacked Crimea, occupied by Russia in 2014, in a bid to liberate the Black Sea peninsula. Western capitals provided Kyiv with weaponry and equipment after Russia invaded in February 2022, though it is unclear if they are providing more direct military assistance.
Medvedev has often taken to social media to write provocative and inflammatory statements about the Ukraine war and its Western allies.
He is widely seen as a stopgap for Vladimir Putin, serving as prime minister during the 2000s, while Putin changed the constitution to allow him another presidential term.
In Tuesday's tweet, Medvedev warned "apocalypse" was "drawing nearer", quoting biblical verse and old Soviet leaders.
These included: “And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them,” from Revelation 9:6, the final book of the New Testament in the bible.
He then added: “We are remembered until we stand in the others’ way,” attributed to Vladimir Lenin, who led the Bolshevik Revolution and was the Soviet Union's first leader.
Medvedev, Russia's Deputy Chairman of the Security Council, ended the tweet with a notorious quote from former USSR leader Nikita Khrushchev that was made to Western ambassadors in 1956.
"Whether you like it, or not, history is on our side. We will bury you," it read.
At the time, the phrase was received very negatively in the West. However, modern translators have since suggested Khrushchev's words were mistranslated.
Most of Medvedev's past threats have rung hollow or provoked ridicule online from large numbers of social media users.
In May, he referred to the Baltics as belonging to Russia, adding Poland was "temporarily occupied" due to NATO's presence inside the country, including 10,000 US troops, according to AP.
The three small Baltic States - Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia - were occupied by the USSR until it collapsed in 1991. The Soviet Union is viewed negatively by large swathes of the population, who have embraced their future within the EU and NATO.
Worries have grown in the Baltics about the threat posed by Russia since it invaded Ukraine last February. The trio are vocal supporters of Kyiv, providing aid, arms and hosting significant populations of Ukrainian refugees.
Though not directly in the USSR, Poland was a satellite state of the Soviet Union. The communist system, which was popularly perceived as corrupt and ineffectual, collapsed in 1989.
Since it was invaded by Russian troops, Western states have provided Ukraine with crucial military and financial assistance, essential to the country's self-defence.
In April, it was revealed special forces from the West were on the ground in Ukraine, though it was unclear what exactly they were doing.
Medvedev, who served as Russian PM between 2000 - 2004, has emerged as a virulent anti-West, pro-war voice within the Kremlin. He was once considered a pro-Western democrat.
How about we focus on our own nation and stop fapping to Russia?
Well, give us a chance to get a real president in there before you come after the United States. We’re not ready right now. We’ve got a bottom of the food chain military.
Well Dmitry, looks like you got your hands full with Ukraine.
Face it Medvedev, your military sucks.
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That should have been a given when we instigated the war in the first place.
Our tranny military could still obliterate Russia. It might take a few days longer than in 2018 but still...
If Russia doesn’t like being fapped, perhaps it shouldn’t fap its neighbors.
Does Russia really think it can defeat The Fourth Reich?
The Fourth Reich spans most of Europe from the Vistula to County Cork, and is the mailed fist of the globohomo cabal.
They invaded and attacked Ukraine first. You cant justify a crybully position because the satellite nations you forcibly controlled and used as human shields in front of your own country, decided they didn’t want to remain your human shield/buffer territories.
Less than six months before your $100 donation to Free Republic is due.
He’s not wrong. Germany sank the Lusitania for less than what NATO countries are doing.
LOL With what would Russia strike NATO? Ukraine is destroying Russian combat aircraft even in Pskov.
I think the original statement was unfair to military personnel. This corrects it. Please note that, ever since we started letting politicians run the wars (i.e., since Viet Nam), we have lost every conflict. I think there's a message there: Let the military set the Rules of Engagement and manage the war, not politicians.
The minute we gave Military aid to Ukraine we became a legitimat6e target in Obama’s war in Ukraine.
Correction: Less than six months before YOUR $100 donation to Free Republic is due.
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“How about we focus on our own nation and stop fapping to Russia?”
How about Russia focus on Russia and stop invading other countries and threatening everyone else with a war that Russia can’t even fight let alone survive?
“Does Russia really think it can defeat The Fourth Reich?”
I often call it the FEUrth Reich. Got that right here on FR!
Why does the government of this country keep poking the bear I guess to show the tiger how tough we are so he won’t mess with Taiwan?
It is not acceptable regardless.
All resources on the economic challenge of China please not a war in Ukraine.
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