“Russia has the power to put US-led enemies in their place and Moscow will thwart the West’s Russophobic plan to destroy Russia,” said Dmitry Medvedev, one of President Vladimir Putin’s closest allies.
Medvedev, who was Russia’s president from 2008 to 2012 and is now deputy secretary of the country’s Security Council, used Russian social media VK to claim that the United States has been fueling a “disgusting Russophobia” in an attempt to force Russia to secede. kneel.
“Since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, the United States and its European and Asian allies have imposed sanctions on Russian leaders, companies and businessmen, isolating Russia from much of the world economy,” he said.
In the post, Medvedev still classifies the penalties applied to the country as “fiction”: “they are being taken due to the political inability of the West to interfere with Russia’s objectives.”
For the former president, the threat of sanctions to ordinary Russian citizens with assets abroad will be answered symmetrically.
“It is a possibility to withhold funds from foreigners and foreign companies until nationalizing property of persons registered in hostile jurisdictions such as the US, European Union states and other countries that participate in this – fortunately, we have rich experience and a law on this topic.”
Medvedev also points out that the crisis could mean an opportunity for the Russians: “it could be an excellent occasion to review all relations with the states that imposed them, including to stop the dialogue on strategic stability and renounce the START-3 Treaty.”
Signed by Medvedev himself and by Barack Obama in 2010, and extended in 2021, the START-3 agreement deals with the reduction of the nuclear arsenal of Russia and the USA, as a way of guaranteeing peace and reducing the offensive power of the two countries. The first version of the treaty was signed at the end of the Soviet Union, in 1991 – since then it has been updated by both countries.
Russian President Vladimir Putin claims that the “special military operation in Ukraine” is necessary because the United States was using the country to threaten Russia with NATO expansion into Eastern Europe, as well as citing defense against “Ukraine”. genocide” of the Russian-speaking people by Ukraine.
Ukraine says it is fighting for its existence and that Putin’s genocide allegations are nonsense.
The West says that the claim that it wants to destroy Russia is fiction. Russia says that despite the sanctions imposed on it, it can do well without what it says is a deceitful and decadent US-led West. It also says that its attempt to forge ties with the West after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 is now over and that it will develop relations with other powers, such as China.
*with information from Guy Faulconbridge of Reuters
Source: CNN Brasil
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