Medvedev's article updated on social platforms on February 18 caused another uproar, saying that he was pushed back to 1991 and attacked four countries with missiles, while imagining a scenario of Ukraine's complete victory in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
What does such a "contradictory" Medvedev mean? Who are the four countries that are planning to attack with missiles?
Big brother who is torn apart.
On December 25, 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed and was divided into 15 countries.
Nearly 80% of the military heritage is inherited by Russia, which directly pushes it to become the holder of the "world's largest nuclear arsenal".
Ukraine was also assigned to the only shipyard in the USSR capable of building aircraft carriers, and the number of warplanes, ** and nuclear warheads was not a few.
In order to get along with each other, the leaders of 11 former allies, including Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, signed the Almaty Declaration in 1991, which explicitly recognized the border line.
Later, the conflict between the two countries changed the border line, and Crimea was one of the eye of the storm of contradictions.
Whoever can occupy Crimea will be able to control the entire Black Sea", a conclusion that Khrushchev came to power, in order to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Ukraine's alliance with the Russian Federation, he waved his hand and assigned Crimea to Ukraine in 1954.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Crimea wanted to return to Russia, but Ukraine strongly opposed it, and after Kuchma was elected to Ukraine in 1994, he compromised with Russia on the issue of Crimea, making Crimea an autonomous republic of Ukraine.
But the political situation in Ukraine is not stable.
After coming to power, Yushchenko reduced the time for the Russian army to lease the port of Sevastopol, leaving Russia's Black Sea Fleet homeless after the lease expired, and waves of sudden changes made Crimea confusing, but in Medvedev's speech in 2024, he admitted that the basis for the change in the border is that part of the territory of eastern Ukraine and Crimea have been incorporated into Russia.
It is envisaged that Ukraine's overall victory in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict is due to a lot of speculation about the outcome of the war, but if Russia and Ukraine are really pushed back to the 1991 border, Russia's ultimate choice is to fight a full-scale nuclear war with the West, with the target cities in addition to Kyiv, Washington, Berlin or London.
These cities have long been the targets of the Russian Trinity", and Russia's purpose is simple: the main thing is to defend the integrity of its own territory, and the nuclear powers will never lose the war.
In July 2023, Medvedev made a statement on social platforms, saying that if Russia loses part of its territory, Russia will use nuclear weapons, in order to prevent a global conflict.
The policy support is based on Putin's "Principles of the State Nuclear Deterrence Policy of the Russian Federation" signed by Putin in June 2020, with the goal of countering Ukraine, which continues to attack with the support of NATO.
We are talking about nuclear deterrence, a document that was supposed to expire in 2020, which was resurrected by the signing of Putin's name, to ensure that there are enough nuclear weapons to end these actions in the event of aggression against Russia's sovereignty and territorial integrity.
One of the toughest voices in Moscow.
Russia will never be the initiator of the use of nuclear **".
Peskov's statement does not represent Medvedev, who is a supporter of "launching a nuclear strike", and when he visited Vietnam in May 2023, he also directly said that the war has been developing for more than a year, but unfortunately the West has not yet realized that the confrontation between NATO countries and Russia may at some point lead to a preemptive nuclear strike by Russia.
In an interview in June 2022, Medvedev also said it was a mistake to claim that nuclear war could not happen.
After all, after entering the second half of 2023, the Russia-Ukraine conflict seems to have reached a new stage.
Ukraine, which has long been at a disadvantage, used drones to launch a surprise attack in the early hours of July, a successful sneak attack that damaged two office buildings in Moscow.
Although there are no personnel **, compared to crushing, it is "fair" for you to come and go.
So even though three drones, one was destroyed by air defense systems, and the other two crashed into non-residential areas in Moscow, Zelensky was still complacent and said that "the war is gradually returning to the territory of Russia."
The voice of "nuclear strike" has come and gone in Russia, but Putin has never ordered to refuse negotiations, but Ukraine has issued a decree prohibiting negotiations in July 2023, which is quite an interesting scene, which made Medvedev make another bombshell in December, saying that Russia's special military operation in Ukraine is still continuing, with the goal of removing Ukrainian Nazism and disarming the Ukrainian army.
The most important goal is not singled out, which is to "overthrow the Bandera regime", but even a supporter of a nuclear strike, Medvedev stresses that nuclear war is a dead end, and everyone should do everything in their power to ensure that nuclear collapse does not happen on Earth.
But Kyiv is included in the target for a reasonable reason for war, and why Washington, Berlin and London are being considered?
Washington is the capital of the United States, Berlin is the capital of Germany, and London is the capital of the United Kingdom, and what these three countries have in common is that they are on the side of Ukraine.
The United States and Germany announced on January 25, 2023 that they would provide Ukraine with main battle tanks, and the United Kingdom's aid to Ukraine has been increasing, and Prime Minister Sunak also said that he planned to bring the total amount of military aid to 7 billion pounds in the next fiscal year when he visited Kyiv in January 2024.
The provision of tanks is already directly involved in the conflict, and the spokesman of Russia has long said that the West's assistance to Ukraine may be more than the change in the situation of the war, pushing Western countries and Russia to reach a new height of confrontation.
Perhaps it was the high-intensity military aid that made Medvedev list these three countries as the same "targets" as Kyiv when he spoke harshly, but a nuclear strike is not a trivial matter, and if a nuclear war really breaks out, it will definitely not be only the countries within the target that will be implicated.
I still hope that Ukraine and Russia can sit down at the negotiating table and peacefully resolve this two-year war, so as not to let the flames of war burn elsewhere and bring more human suffering.
Reference link: Medvedev: If pushed back to the 1991 Russian-Ukrainian border, Russia will fight a "full-scale nuclear war" with the West Global Times.