Russia has 'right to war' with 'each and every' NATO country - Medvedev

I wonder… does medvedev have enough wits left to understand that if Russia has that right… then everyone … has that right?

They’re finding Ukraine difficult enough. Sure we’re sharing some toys (a lot of toys)… but they don’t have carriers or attack subs or missile destroyers…

Threatening nato is not a sane decision to make. We might just take them at their word.

Good news then: If you go to war with one NATO member you get war with the rest of them absolutely free!

Can’t even take on Ukraine, you want to come at every other western country? Lol

Whether you like it, or not, history is on our side. We will bury you

Because we all know the Soviet Union and Russia are exactly the same thing and the Russian military is definitely as powerful and as capable as the Soviet Union, no doubt. Please pay no attention to the complete lack of victory in Ukraine.

Maxim Katz has explained that these kinds of deranged declarations are not directed at us. They are a kind of symbolic self-humiliation of Medvedev to prove to Putin that he is still loyal. It's "look I am willing to appear so wretched and ridiculous to the foreigners, I could not possibly be a threat to you, I am not some kind of alternative that could replace you, I am such a silly man, please don't throw me out of a window".

The second greatest army in Ukraine wants to mess with Nato? LOL

War has fuck-all to do with rights. If you're going to attack a NATO country we will beat your ass back into the stone age without mercy, your nukes won't save you if you dare cross that line.

So has Denmark.

Though it would be funny ig Russia didn't. Imagine Putin declaring war on Poland and Poland just saying "no, it's against the law."

I mean... he's not wrong? They could have a war with NATO any time they wanted it. Russia could have war with NATO whenever they want it. They've been very careful to not actually DO that, of course. Last thing they need is to start losing another one with someone who won't have any difficulty in bringing the full conflict right to them.

But do they have the ability to war? 🤔

They can't even fight a small country like Ukraine and they want to test the might of a fully armed and optional Battlestaion NATO alliance? Do they believe that anyone really believes them?

A right to war? Are you fucking high?

Nobody is stopping them from exercising that right against any NATO country. What about Poland? They have been a historical nuisance, Dimi. Just shoot a rocket at a farm somewhere, but make it intentional this time.

These dumbfucks can’t manage a war with Ukraine. To state the obvious.

History's on their side? Boy do I have news for him...

A house cat has the right to attack a lion as well...

“Are you gonna bark all day, little doggy, or are you gonna bite?” - Mr. Blonde.

And everyone has the right to shoot back. Not sure why such a declaration comes across as so one sided.

Mate, you can't even win against a non-NATO country, that happens to be the poorest in Europe.

But sure, you have the right to have a war with everyone. Even if we all know you can't.

I mean... I can't see any issue with NATO not stopping Ukraine from invading its own territory... the territory the UN recognizes as part of Ukraine... and which Russia signed three separate treaties promising to respect as part of Ukraine.

Oh no, we're all gonna be totally dead in 3 days. Remember how they took Kiev in 3 days? Flawlessly.

How are they gonna have time to bury anybody when they're busy burying hundreds of thousands of citizens they force to go to war for them?

... I mean, ok?

Come get some.

Krushchev is an interesting person to quote here. Wasn't he stripped of power by an empire that would utterly collapse within 20 years of his death?

Okay...? Why would you want to though? Just want to kill a lot of people for no other reason than, "but I have the right to!"

Well, yeah. Everyone has the right to make bad decisions

Freedom of Speech War doesn't mean Freedom from Consequences!

Sure. And the mouse has the right to war with the elephant. But it's not a very clever thing to do.

Feel free to exercise that right at your convenience

Ha! Your mouth is writing checks your ass can't cash.

I wish a motherfucker would tho.

Going to war isn't about rights. Rights are a soft power thing while war is purely about hard power. What is he even trying to say here? Like if there was a right and lack of a right to war, what would they look like? What would the functional difference between the two be?

You have the right to guzzle bleach if you choose also... just sayin'.

Just claiming you have the right doesn't mean you actually have the right. Ask January 6 trumpers for more information on that subject.

On another point: just because you can doesn't mean you should. You can kick a Lion in the balls but that doesn't make it a great idea.

Then again, I'm sure Russia's leadership knows this and right now is just posing like an 8th grader bragging about his uncle being a navy seal because holy shit, Russia is fuuuuuuucked.

For the next decades it will be busy pulling itself together, trying to rebuild an international economy that doesn't rely 100% on unsustainable practices of just selling all it's minerals, getting rid of the reputation that Putin gave it, trying to rebuild a military that isn't the laughing stock of the world... And all that is assuming that the country doesn't fall apart, doesn't dove into civil war and that say, china doesn't decide it likes the taste ofmsome of the pieces that are left.

Russia is fubar, and right now Ukraine is the victim, butt within this decade, the innocent Russian citizens will be the victims of it all

Has everyone in Russia forgotten about mutual assured destruction? Or are they old and susceptible to COVID and just plan to take everyone else with them?

🎶Dumb ways to die 🎶

So Dmitry. Found something to say from the bottom of the bottle again, eh?

He knows Glasgow is part of NATO, right? No-one sane is offering that lot outside.

i dont think putin could window his way out of that loss if it where to ever happen

This guy called it a war! To prison with him!

And not even 15 years ago this russkie was hailed as the dovish counterpart to Putler.

Given how reliable their "advanced weaponry" has been in Ukraine, I expect many of their nucks are non functional so if they go to war, Russia will become a giant radioactive hole while the rest of the world will escape annihilation. Can somebody please just take out Putin FFS?

Sure Buddy

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This is the best summary I could come up with:

The former Russian Prime Minister - widely seen as a stopgap for Vladimir Putin -  repeatedly takes to social media to write provocative and inflammatory statements about the Ukraine war and its Western allies.

In Tuesday's tweet, Medvedev warned the "apocalypse" was "drawing nearer", quoting biblical verse and old Soviet leaders.

“We are remembered until we stand in the others’ way,” attributed to Vladimir Lenin, who led the Bolshevik Revolution and was the first leader and founder of the Soviet Union.

Medvedev, Russia's Deputy Chairman of the Security Council, ended the tweet with a notorious quote from former USSR leader Nikita Khrushchev made to Western ambassadors in 1956, which reads: "Whether you like it, or not, history is on our side.

Most of Medvedev's past threats have rung hollow or provoked ridicule online from large numbers of social media users.

He added Poland was "temporarily occupied", alluding to NATO presence inside the country, which includes 10,000 American troops, according to AP.

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Good luck with that...

If you go to war with one NATO country, you go to war with all NATO countries.

The only interesting question here isn’t how the war will go, it’s how the NATO countries will get to divide up the spoils after Russia is crushed.

I'd like to see you do that, mr. Medvedev.

Lol, might as well change his surname to Kim Jong.

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Except they really don’t. There’s no casus belli that passes the smell test.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_of_aggression

The only way the Russian army would bury NATO is in the collective wave of shit which would emanate from their pants if they actually faced real Western military action

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Sure, Jan

But do you have the ability?

@MicroWave oh look. Dmitri is saying things again.

I'm torn between "oh yeah? that's crazy" and "oh god we're all going to nuke each other"

lol nato grouping together like a bunch of cowards, they know its impossible to beat the great russia in a 1v1

Technically he's correct about the right, NATO agreed not to expand east back in the day and then violated that. I haven't seen the evidence that they could bury everyone though.