The vice president of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medédev, affirmed today that the partition of Ukraine between Poland and other countries is better than its entry into NATO or a world war.
"A quiet partition is better than Ukraine in NATO or a world war," Medvedev, Russia's president from 2008 to 2012, said in an address to participants in the "Znanie" (Knowledge) marathon. According to the former president, Poland, Hungary and Romania "have been dreaming for decades" of taking over the western regions of Ukraine.
"The world is sick, it is on the threshold of a new world war. Is this inevitable? No, it is not," Medvedev said. He added that in the last 30 years a war was avoided, which "came anyway."
"Despite the fact that we did not want it, they imposed a war on us, which in essence is a consequence of the disintegration of the USSR, on the one hand, and of a hybrid form of civil war as a result of which different parts of a single people clashed. , on the other," said the former president. He stressed that the military campaign in Ukraine is "a response to the endless expansion of NATO."
"Our adversaries only understand the language of force. They don't want to hear anything, they don't want to understand anything except the language of force," he insisted. Medvedev indicated that in Ukraine Russia does not face the Ukrainian Army but "with the entire Atlantic bloc."
"We are forced to fight against the entire NATO... It is a very, very complex task, and for this reason we have to do everything to win this war. I am convinced that all the objectives of the special operation (in Ukraine ) will be reached," he stressed.
The former president warned that Russia's potential adversaries should not underestimate it when it comes to the use of nuclear weapons, which can be used in the event of a threat to the existence of the state.
"Our adversaries must not underestimate this. Because the words that say 'the Russians will never do it' or, conversely, 'the Russians always threaten us with nuclear weapons, are worthless," he said, adding that "if they are has that weapon, one has to be prepared so that in certain circumstances the hand does not tremble to use it".
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