Dmitri Medvedev's Recent Musings
Telegram postings
Besides the Medvedev citation Pepe Escobar provided in his recent essay,
“NATO has turned into an openly fascist bloc similar to Hitler’s Axis, only bigger (...) It looks like Russia is being left with little choice other than a direct conflict with NATO (...) The result would be much heavier losses for humanity than in 1945."
Russia’s former president turned to his Telegram to muse on Reunification Day and then on recent pronouncements by NATOites, both of which need to be noted:
Today is the Day of Reunification of New Regions with Russia.
A year ago, in referendums, their residents made a fateful decision - to be with their Fatherland. This choice became a symbol not only of the restoration of historical justice, but also of the unity of the Russian people, their colossal will and dedication.
The special military operation will continue until the complete destruction of the Nazi Kyiv regime and the liberation of primordially Russian territories from the enemy.
Victory will be ours.
And there will be more new regions in Russia.
Happy Holidays! Emphasis Original]
This is from today. Emphasis original:
The number of leading idiots in NATO countries is growing.
One newly-minted cretin - the British Minister of Defense - decided to transfer the British training courses for Ukrainian soldiers to the territory of Ukraine itself. That is, to turn [their] instructors into a legal target for our Armed Forces. Knowing full well that they will be ruthlessly destroyed. And not as mercenaries, but as British NATO specialists.
Another fool - the head of the German defense committee with an unpronounceable surname - demands that the Taurus missiles be immediately supplied to the Khokhlobanders so that the Kyiv regime can strike at Russian territory to weaken the supply of our army. Like, this is in accordance with international law. Well, in this case, strikes on German factories, where these missiles are made, will fully comply with international law.
Still, these idiots are actively pushing us towards the third world war ...
Pepe also noted what Shoigu said about the SMO lasting until 2025.
Apparently, the policy of having NATO members killed but never announced as casualties within Ukraine is going to change so as Dmitri alludes to they can be openly said to have died in the line-of-duty and thus bring NATO’s Article 5 into play, which IMO is the only way to understand Medvedev’s intent in both cases. So far Medvedev’s warnings seem to have had an impact as NATO ought to know by now that they’re severely outclassed in several key strategic areas, including nuclear arms, so NATO’s refrained from going all-in.
The Outlaw US Empire’s domestic political situation is becoming harder to read as R-Party Congressional factions feud over Ukraine and US Government funding, while the Impeachment process slowly goes forward. Meanwhile, EU support will weaken with the change in the Slovakian government:
The Slovak Social Democracy (SMER-SD) party will not support further military aid for Ukraine, its leader, Robert Fico, told journalists on Sunday. Fico’s party took the lead in the parliamentary elections held over the weekend and is now poised to start talks about forming a government.
“Slovakia and the people of Slovakia have bigger problems than Ukraine,” he said at a press conference following the announcement of the election results. The SMER-SD won around 23% of the vote, with its closest competitor, Progressive Slovakia (PS), receiving some 18%.
When asked about his party’s stance on helping Kiev, Fico said that, if his party successfully forms a government, it would still be ready to help, but only in a humanitarian way. “We are prepared to help with the reconstruction of the state, but you know our opinion on arming Ukraine,” he said. [Emphasis Original]
Some rather curious words were expressed on X yesterday Republican Ohio Senator JD Vance which RT headlined thusly: “Democrats want to ‘bleed Ukraine dry’ – US senator: Ohio Senator J.D. Vance claims that Democrats have ulterior motives for approving Ukrainian military aid packages.” RT reports further, its emphasis:
Figures on the political left in the US blame Russia for Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election victory and have committed to “bleed Ukraine dry” in retaliation, according to Republican Senator J.D. Vance.
“Sorry, this needs to be said,” he wrote on X (formerly Twitter) late on Saturday in advance of a deal being struck to prevent a disruptive US federal government shutdown. “A lot of the anti-Russia obsession on the left has nothing to do with Ukraine. It’s a revenge fantasy over 2016.”
The senator from Ohio added: “They blame Russia for Donald Trump’s election and they’ll bleed Ukraine dry for payback.”
Lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle in Washington have been sparring in recent days over the implementation of a temporary funding bill to keep government agencies operational ahead of an overnight deadline and prevent a costly shutdown.
The package, which was signed by US President Joe Biden minutes before the deadline on Saturday, funds the government until November 17 but drops additional aid to Ukraine – a key White House priority which has faced opposition from a growing number of Republican politicians.
IMO, the revenge aspect goes well beyond Trump’s win to the loss of Crimea which was the main goal of the 2014 coup. However, given the way the domestic political war was waged, his Vance’s accusations have merit. It should be noted that RFKjr has prominently said essentially the same thing about Biden sending Ukrainians to their deaths. With Russia clearly indicating it will liberate more Great Russia lands which will cause the SMO to last until 2025 since the Denazification goal will take at least that long. And as the Canadian event proved, Denazification needs to be a global goal. Given the publicity the Canadian event got, the hope is those within the Empire supporting Zelensky and Ukraine will change their minds since it can’t be made much clearer that the West supports Nazism.
And more is happening in Europe as Bradley Blankinship reports about the new movement in the Czech Republic, which leads thusly:
On September 16, around 10,000 protesters descended on Prague’s Wenceslas Square to demand a change to their government’s foreign policy. These protests were led by a group called Pravo Respekt Odbornost (Law Respect Expertise; PRO), which the Western mainstream media describes as pro-Russian and anti-Western.
Jindrich Rajchl, a Czech attorney inspired by the political lines of American conservatives Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis, is the leader of the group. While some may see Rajchl’s movement as completely out of touch with the country’s traditional politics, he believes that he’s tapped into something much more critical to Prague’s national mythos: rejecting foreign domination.
PRO and its supporters see the current Czech government as traitors who are controlled primarily from Washington and Brussels. And even though the political environment in the country has been turbulent over the past several years, a situation which the current government was meant to resolve, Rajchl and PRO believe that a national-conservative platform is the only thing that will rein in out-of-control excesses emanating from foreign powers.
There’s much more to the essay, and with the Slovaks changing and Hungary staying its course, another key middle-Europe nation may also alter its policy. Poland was discussed earlier, and it appears the Polish don’t want to be used like the Ukrainians. The mad Baltics are just that and have no military weight. Could Finland be coaxed into suicide? We’ll need to await the outcomes in Moldova and Armenia, which is where the Empire’s emphasis is now aimed.
It appears Europeans are beginning to see the Ukraine failure and want it to stay there as there’re plenty of EU-wide problems without fighting Russia. IMO, Europeans are aware that escalating the ongoing third world war will involve them when they really don’t have any genuine reason to fight Russia.
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"primordially Russian territories" That term interests me. What would really be considered "primordially" given that Kiev used to be a Russian city since 1667? Lvov would escape that, but as I've been arguing western Ukraine has military value to Russia so I doubt it will escape occupation, regardless of all the excuses people come up with as reasons Russia wouldn't do so.
With regard to what Shoigu said about the war lasting through 2025, Alexander Mercouris said on The Duran video yesterday that if you read the original Russian about Shoigu's statement, it seems that he was talking about their "Action Plan 2025", not the Ukraine war specifically. I don't know, I can't find the statement as the MoD Web site is closed to access for me and I don't know if it was published on the Telegram channel. And he could also have been referring to the overall war against the US and NATO, although I suspect that will go on for much longer than Ukraine itself.
And of course once the Kiev regime has fallen, there will be months and months - if not years - of cleanup and Russian troops will remain, as I' have argued, so saying that the SMO will continue to and beyond 2025 doesn't really tell us anything about the actual length of time Russia expects the Ukraine military to be actually fighting. As I keep telling people, one has to parse Russian words very carefully because they are both precise and frequently deliberately misleading.
As for the Democrats hatred of Russia going back to Trump, I think that's reaching a bit. No doubt there are some in the Clinton camp who think that. But as Mercouris said in The Duran video, this is now a political problem for the Democrats - how to get out of the Ukraine mess without losing to the Republicans. They're scared that Biden is unsuitable to run again, so they're fractured on that score, they're scared of RFK Jr., they're scared of Trump or some other Republican winning all because of Ukraine. Since this is entirely because Russia can't be beaten, they think they have to keep funneling money and arms to Ukraine because, as Martyanov constantly says, they don't understand what real war is.
A lot of the pro-Russian analysts are beginning to voice the suspicion that the Biden administration will put US troops explicitly into Ukraine. The talk now is about "advisors" - of course, there already are "advisors" in Ukraine, albeit not "officially." But the talk about a "frozen conflict" brings up the concept of :"peacekeepers" and I expect that will be the next term used. Poland seems to be backing away from directly intervening into Ukraine and if that happens it will be left to the US to do so.
And Medvedev is right: if you officially put NATO "advisors" into Ukraine, they will be targeted, killed and used to justify an Article 5 or Article 4 (which is the more dangerous of the two Articles) intervention.
With what is the question, since NATO has no capability and the US won't be able to do so in less than six months to a year of force and logistical deployment - which Russia would then be forced to interdict.
McCarthy is working a backdoor deal with the Dems about Ukraine funding.
It takes $24B a quarter to keep Ukraine's government functioning, never mind war material, which means the US will be on the hook for another 100B, $24B of political fighting at a time.