Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chair of the Russian Security Council, warned on Thursday that Russia losing the war in Ukraine could potentially trigger a nuclear war.
“Backward political good-timers in Davos reiterated: ‘To achieve peace, Russia must lose,'” Medvedev wrote on Twitter, referring to the World Economic Forum conference in Davos, Switzerland.
In Davos on Wednesday, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said, “weapons are the way to peace,” as he called for more military aid for Ukraine. Medvedev said Western officials don’t understand how a nuclear power’s loss in a conventional war could escalate.
“None of them gets it that a nuclear power’s loss of a conventional war can lead to a nuclear one. Nuclear powers haven’t been defeated in major conflicts crucial for their destiny,” said Medvedev, who was Russia’s president from 2008 to 2012.
The Kremlin later said that Medvedev’s comments aligned with Russia’s military doctrine, which allows the use of nuclear weapons if Russia’s existence is threatened. “Read the nuclear doctrine, there is no contradiction there,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
Medvedev’s warning came after The New York Times reported that the US was warming to the idea of helping Ukraine attack Crimea, which Russia has controlled since 2014.
The report said the Biden administration was going to help Ukrainian officials plan a potential offensive toward the peninsula despite the risk of a major escalation from Russia.
Maybe we were better off with Trump…
My feeling is that it would be about the same. The details would be different and the style would be different but the end result would be about the same.
The US switched from republican to democrat to Trump to Biden, and our foreign policy is marked more by continuity than drastic change.
Unfortunately, you are probably right.
Trump was in a war with corporate propaganda machine for his entire presidency and I got to say, he had substantial impact.
You have to be kidding. He gave corporations everything they wanted. Everything.
Oh good God. Wake up. Trump IS part of the corporate propaganda machine.
Perhaps you’re right… I guess I got a soft spot for the Orange Twitler. Was he all that bad? He didn’t start any new wars like 2 previous maggots in White House.
I know you do. We differ some there. Just look at the people around him when president. They stand out like bright warning signs. If he’s not an “exceptionalist”, one world empire front man, then he’s no brighter than my barber or the guy who works on my cars.
I know he is an imperialist, and a very clever one. He tried to repeat the great geopolitical move of Mr.Kissinger and drive a wedge between RF and PRC. I don’t know about you, but I want to see Putin sweat a little. He looks bored.
Less worse off? But I don’t know why anyone would think that Trump would have scared off Russia. He wasn’t trending towards that. He’s co-belligerent in this whole mess.
You said it, he was a mess. Biden is more belligerent but also more predictable, I think. MHO.
He sent Javelin missiles to Ukraine. He pulled out of the INF treaty. He pulled out of the JCPOA. Drone strikes in Afghanistan increased. The military budget increased. He threatened NK. I don’t think so. Inclusion of nations into NATO continued.
Maybe he was too unpredictable for the neocon politicians. He could get out of hand like a spoiled kid.
Donna, not in a million years would I have ever thought I’d defend Trump. But I believe you’re correct.
Certainly we were better off with Trump talking to Putin about Ukraine. But worse off with Trump for peace with Israel & Palestine. A hard choice for too many, Trump or Biden. I decided to throw my vote away for Libertarian zero charisma dude. Would have gone Trump, but his pro torture talk nixed him for me. The bad guys don’t get hurt by torture, because they have knowledge they can trade. Its the innocent who don’t have anything to do with the problem, The worst way to get tortured, is to say ‘I know nothing’. Especially if you really known nothing they are going to torture you till they get something. That is why I cannot vote for those fools that think torture is legitament…
Weird, but possibly true. Or you could just take your tanks and go home.
I doubt imperial pests want to go home. They want to occupy entire Europe, Russia and China. No reverse gear and that means they are getting face-smacked. 🙂
It’s the new playbook answer; The Kremlin didn’t just make a nuclear threat, they were just re-stating their nuclear doctrine. Lol.
It is really hard to say who is more incompetent Medvedev or Putin.
Talk is cheap, West continues to cross every red line, and yet Russia does nothing.
Smells like a Great Reset script they are all following …
Wine merchant trying to stay relevant
Biden vs Trump?
I am very glad that Biden defeated Trump.
When Trump was in office, the basic consensus was that lefties like myself have a voice in the democratic party, and that our priorities would be respected and fought for.
Now the truth is completely and totally revealed. The Squad and Sanders made an important announcement a couple of months ago when they made a very mild proposal to possibly think about maybe someday think about negotiating with Russia over the conflict in Ukraine.
It wasn’t long before Biden threatened to veto it even if it passed. The proposal was withdrawn. That was Bernie’s and The Squad’s formal surrender announcement. It hugely affected my view of American politics, hugely accelerating me down the path of viewing the democratic party as an enemy of the left. Maybe it wasn’t in the past, but it is now.
I read forums and articles populated and written by Biden democrats, and Biden and his supporters make it clear that they hate me as much as they hate Trump supporters. Corporate republicans have not completely defeated Trump supporters (soon to be DeSantis supporters), but corporate democrats have definitely completed defeated the left. And in the middle of all the Trump supporter rants about how I am evil and need to be killed and how I am the cause of all of America’s problems, I sometimes find that the underlying things that they are fighting are the things the left has been complaining about for decades.
The left is now in a political wilderness, and will be for a while. On the other hand, US politics is so dysfunctional that this is as good as time as any to get torn down to nothing and start rebuilding. And I am thankful that Biden did us the favor of moving us finally to restarting from nothing at the time when the odds of actually accomplishing anything good is so low anyways. Americans are so much better at tearing things down than building them up. California is trying to build just 1 bullet train, the only one in the nation that is even being attempted, and there is never a kind word said about it, only ridicule and glee that it is failing so badly.
Biden democrat forums on the conflict in Ukraine make me feel sad. The hatred that Biden democrats have for anyone viewing Russians as people and not orcs is disgusting.
Yeah Woke, you got that right…. And Ole JOE is sold out to the empire, and the ‘at one time working mans friend,’ is not so much anymore.
I think Joe was never the working man’s friend, he acted like one only when it did do no harm to his corporate mentors.
I fully agree, the Democrats are neocons, they managed to eliminate every voice of progress, Manchin got all he wanted from the Democrats, real Democrats are some voices in the wilderness. There is no difference between the parties, both are controlled by the corporate elite. They make people like Trump and Biden for president possible.
Speaking for myself, I see no reason to vote again as long as the corporate elite is in charge and labor unions and the working middle class are silenced.
i always vote for or against the state and local measures and bills because they are always important to me. federal politics not so much
Well, they’ll always be left, but what they are the enemy of, unlike in the Vietnam era, is peace. Democratic administrations and every Democratic President from Johnson on has been party to U.S. involvement in one undeclared war after another, fattening every single MIC contractor at the trough while starving everyone else. An average of $200 million sucked out of every single congressional district to “defend Ukrainian democracy” (read “pigs at trough”)while domestic infrastructure rots and homeless encampments swell.
“Weapons are the way to peace”?!
Doltenburg, could you have uttered ANYthing more Dolt-ish?
“Russia’s Medvedev Warns If Russia Loses War, It Could Go Nuclear The Kremlin said the former Russian president’s comments align with Russia’s nuclear doctrine”
Arrogant deep state Ivy League people in Americas government are clueless about war and weapons. They hold the military and anyone who owns a gun in disdain.
The NEOCONs and deep state bureaucrats from Tony Blinken and Victoria Nuland on down have never served in the military or combat and have no idea how horrible it can become.
America is use to playing wack-a-mole with aboriginal tribal people who have no ability to really fight back. Dropping a bomb from a drone controlled from America is normal nowadays.
Russia is a major industrial power with nuclear weapons and factories that can out produce the west in bullets, artillery shells, tanks and missiles. Russia has drones
Ukraine has suffered around 150,000 Killed in Action and another 200,000 tragically maimed and not able to serve. Now Ukraine is drafting children as young as 15 to go to the meat grinder.
America has become a sad and sick nation of warmongers making blood money from conflicts.
russia is not going to lose the war. ukraine is almost done already.
influx of western armaments will fail because they are not logistically viable.
after ukraine fails, russia will have no choice but to march all the way to the western border because uncle sam will certainly foster insurgents just as uncle sam has always done. here is Gen. Douglas McGregor =
If we don’t believe that even without saying, the nuclear weapons are not a deterrent. Do we believe the USA government, no matter what party is in power would not use nuclear weapons if it became an existential question? If anything they are more likely to resort to nuclear weapons than Russia with Putin in charge.
It is a deterrent only as long as we believe they would use them.
Medvedev sounds mad as a hatter, and Stoltenberg looks like he’s gunning (pun intended) for a defense contractor lobbying job. Ladies, if there are any left, it is time for your Lysistrata Moment.