USA-Russia: How Medvedev brought Trump out of his hinges

His provocations no longer really surprised, as he abused it since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The vituperations of former president Dmitri Medvedev will still have ended up getting out Donald Trump of his hinges. The American president announced on Friday the “deployment of two nuclear submarines (…) in the appropriate areas”, in response to “silly and incendiary declarations” of Medvedev on social networks. On July 28, the former Russian-president (2008-2012) and Prime Minister (2018-2020) took it strongly on his Telegram channel in Donald Trump and his ultimatum launched at Vladimir Poutine To conclude a ceasefire in Ukraine within fifty days, then reduced to ten.

“Each subsequent ultimatum is a threat and a step towards war,” he said Donald Trump. The latter had treated him in return, on July 31, of “failed president who always takes himself for a president” and who, moreover, “ventures into dangerous territory”, in this case that of the nuclear threat. Dmitri Medvedev, which still occupies a high position in the apparatus, that of vice-president of the Russian Security Council, has indeed alluded in this exchange of invective with the head of the White House in the “Dead Main”, allusion to an ultrasecret automated system set up by the USSR of the Cold War. He would ensure control of his nuclear arsenal even in the event of destruction of his chain of command. The message of distrust was clear, at least he led Donald Trump to react, “in case these declarations (…) are more serious than that”.

“What can criticism that did not take the words of Medvedev’s words today?” Those who made fun of him? ” The pro-Kremlin political scientist Alexei Chesnakov was wondering on Saturday. “In response to a short tweet from Dmitri Anatoliavitch (Medvedev), the American president simultaneously mobilized two nuclear submarines. Few people in the world have such political weight … “he added.

Verbal swolders that have become a trademark

There is no doubt that the interested party revels in the magnitude taken by this affair, he who made verbal swolders his trademark. On April 29, in a conference in front of young people on the occasion of 80^e Anniversary of victory, the ex-president himself drew an anthology of the invectives he addressed to his privileged targets: the West “degenerate” and his “dying world”, “aging and ugly Europe”, the Ukrainian leaders-“a band of crazy Nazi drug addicts”; “Cockroaches raised in an insectarium”, the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz “liar like Goebbels” …

Without forgetting one of his favorite themes, we have just seen it again, the specter of a destructive nuclear war with Westerners. With his radical projections on X and Telegram, Dmitri Medvedev won his place among the most uninstanisme propagandists of Poutinism, alongside the “journalist” Vladimir Soloviev and the patron of Russia Today (RT), Margarita Simonian. The avant-garde of the “War Party”.

Outrances that keep questioning as they are so detonated with the politician then considered as a “liberal reformer” who, in the late 2000s was applauded to the Davos forum and celebrated in Silicon Valley, rock lover – he invited the Deep Purple group to his table – and you and you with Barack Obama. After all, Vladimir Putin passed himself, at one time, for a pro-European Russian leader …

Fury of Vladimir Putin

It was under the latter’s wing that Dmitri Medvedev grew up in politics in Saint Petersburg. Born as Putin in this city (which was then called Leningrad), this lawyer who will be sixty years on September 14 is propelled to Moscow by his mentor, who became president in 2000. Head of the presidential administration at the Kremlin from 2003, Medvedev was appointed Vice-Prime Minister in 2005. Three years later, he was elected head of state Two consecutive mandates, he organized a transient “permutation” with Dmitri Medvedev and endorses, for the form, the clothes of Prime Minister. In 2012, he will resume the reins of power which he will never have really let go.

Meanwhile, in 2011, when Dmitri Medvedev piloted a rapprochement with the United States, an event will arise that will put Vladimir Putin in fury: the abstention of Russia, rather than a veto, during the vote of a resolution on the Libyan crisis in the UN Security Council. A decision, which will allow NATO to launch the military intervention leading to the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi. Putin will not forgive him for this initiative. In the eyes of the “siloviki” clan – soldiers and security services – the fate of the one who was considered one of the headliners of the “liberal” wing of poutinism is sealed.

A penchant for alcohol

Dmitri Medvedev was considering running for a second term. His disappointment was brutal, plunging him into depression, and forging his reputation as a solid penchant for the bottle. Returning head of government after the return to the Kremlin of Vladimir Putin in 2012, the Medvedev star is gradually fading. We remember his casual encouragement from him – “hold on” – during his field visits, facing the Russians distraught and crushed with economic difficulties. In 2017, a survey carried out by the “anti -corruption” team of opponent Alexei Navalny, who died last year in prison, accuses Medvedev of having residences, vineyards and yachts thanks to an assembly involving charitable foundations. The video will make 47 million views.

How to explain such a spectacular moult? Excluding that he can be a free electron, or a simple megaphone, observers consider rather that Medvedev is led to make as virulent remarks to be forgiven a “liberal” reputation which is not really in the Kremlin. Give wages to the “hard” line of the Russian elite to continue to exist politically. Playing the escalation insofar as the system tolerates it and can even seek to withdraw diplomatic advantages from its openly outrageous remarks. It remains to be seen whether, this time, in the context of an electric new electric tensions, the madman of King Medvedev did not push the plug too far.

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