Published December 08,2023
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The risk of a direct conflict between Moscow and NATO has by no means been so actual for the reason that Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, Russia’s former President Dmitry Medvedev mentioned on Friday.
“The (US President Joe) Biden administration is not new at all and has historical precedents. ‘Give money to our guy … otherwise we’ll have to start a war with the Russians.’ This is what various American presidents said at different times, extorting dollars from their legislators,” Medvedev mentioned in a press release on Telegram.
Medvedev, who presently serves because the deputy head of the Russian Security Council, mentioned that the query at the moment is totally different, expressing that Washington has by no means “extorted so much money for a minor state that is in the process of collapse,” in reference to Ukraine.
He additionally argued that the specter of a direct conflict between Russia and NATO, which he mentioned would result in a Third World War, has by no means been so actual for the reason that Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.
“This is a new phenomenon in American political discourse … They (the Biden administration) face the prospect of impeachment, which is unlikely, and losing the elections, which is very likely. Hence the boorish blackmail, continuous hysteria and wild hints directed at us,” Medvedev mentioned.
He went on to argue that the Biden administration will finally obtain cash in 2024 to “continue business during the war at any cost” which can end in extra lives being misplaced, for which he mentioned Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy‘s administration could be accountable.
Source: www.anews.com.tr