Two moments in relations between Russia and the West became “points of no return” that forever changed the world situation, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said in his article for Izvestia.
Medvedev, as is now customary in Russian political discourse, began with a foray into history, linking his thoughts to the 100th anniversary of the founding of the USSR, which was celebrated last year. According to the politician, the origins of the current upheavals must be sought at the end of the last century, when the great power – the Soviet Union – collapsed.
“It is highly probable that its last leader, who left in the year of the centenary of the Union, sincerely believed that he was acting for the benefit of the multinational people of the great State, of which he became the leader after the notorious “horse-carriage race” . At the same time, the rulers of the union republics cynically cared only about becoming the heads of independent states created on the still smoldering remains of a great country. One way or another, there was Foros and the August coup. And the end of the USSR, which for the older generation remained a beloved homeland and a wonderful dream of justice, ”writes Medvedev.
But in the end, according to him, only the West benefited, which watched the tragedy “from above, with the arrogant squint of a victor and a feeling of clear superiority”, and continued to help the fragments of the USSR to roll further into the abyss. To these ends, they fueled separatism in Russia. An example of this is the formation of hot spots in the Caucasus.
However, according to Medvedev, Russia slowly and with great effort, but surely began to regain its independence and overcome difficult times. Here, the politician goes even further into history, recalling the sunsets of the great empires of the past – Rome and Constantinople, the empires of Genghis Khan and Napoleon.
“A great country dies – a war begins. Sooner or later,” says Medvedev.
And the West, according to the politician, after the fall of the USSR began to “freeze and cynically” do whatever it wants, “go crazy for fictitious messianism.”
Medvedev cites two points of no return in relations between Russia and the West. The first, according to him, took place in the fall of 2008, when Georgia committed an act of aggression against Ossetia, “raising to heaven the fool, drug addict and adventurer” Saakashvili. Then the aggressor was repelled by Russia, and then Dmitry Medvedev himself dominated the country.
The second point of no return is the spring of 2014, when Crimea returned to Russia.
“In the Western world, this caused a frenzied and impotent hysteria, which continues to this day. Their convulsions are fueled by cavernous Russophobia and the desire to create a newly minted Frankenstein in the person of Ukraine – a special ‘anti-Russian’, about which the president of our country wrote, ”writes Medvedev.
It was these two historic moments, according to the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, that became triggers for the West, giving rise to “crazy and helpless hysteria that continues to this day”.
“What is there to say? Only one thing: the wise predecessors of today’s brainless Western politicians said this: Deus quos vult perdere dementat prius – he whom God wants to punish, first deprives him of reason,” Medvedev concluded.
This, according to the Russian politician, led to the launch of a special military operation in Ukraine. And Medvedev added that the collapsed empire “bury half the world under its rubble”, if not more. And this should be taken into account by the West, which wants to be done with Russia.
