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Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told the United States today that the West’s attempt to punish a nuclear power like Russia for its war in Ukraine risks endangering humanity.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has caused the most serious crisis in relations between Russia and the West since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, when many lived in fear that the world was on the brink of nuclear war.
Medvedev characterized the United States as an empire that has blood on its hands around the world, citing the extermination of Native Americans, US nuclear attacks on Japan and a series of wars from Vietnam to Afghanistan.
Attempts to use courts to investigate Russia’s actions in Ukraine, Medvedev said, would be futile and risk global catastrophe.
“The idea of ​​punishing a country that has one of the largest nuclear arsenals is absurd. And potentially a threat to the existence of humanity,” Medvedev, currently deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, wrote in a post on Telegram.
According to the Federation of American Scientists, Russia and the United States control 90% of the world’s nuclear warheads, each having about 4,000 nuclear warheads in their military stockpiles.
Medvedev, when he was president from 2008 to 2012, appeared as a reformer who wanted better relations with the West. But since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, he has rebranded himself as a hard-line Kremlin mouthpiece, Reuters reported in its cable.
“The entire American history, starting with the conquest of the native Indians, is a bloody war of extermination,” he wrote in his post, adding that the United States has killed millions of people around the world since World War II to date.
US President Joe Biden has declared that Putin is a war criminal who launched an illegal invasion of Ukraine. The United States is supplying weapons to Ukraine, which it says is fighting for its survival.
SOURCE: APE-ME
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