Medvedev Threatens Preemptive Strikes Against NATO Countries
29- 17.07.2025, 17:47
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Earlier, the deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council threatened the West with World War III.
Russia should not wait for NATO attacks but strike first, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitri Medvedev said in an interview with TASS. He noted that "not only treachery but also a sick notion of its own superiority is still 'fermenting' in the blood" of the West. "We need to behave accordingly. We need to respond to the full program. And if necessary, we need to launch preventive strikes," Medvedev said.
In his opinion, "for Western elites, independent, strong Russia has always been a historical anomaly" and "a refutation of their 'civilizational superiority,'" so they "time after time try to 'get even' and take revenge." "And what is happening today - a proxy war, and in fact a full-fledged war (Western missile launches, information from satellites and so on), sanctions packages, loud statements about the militarization of Europe - is yet another attempt to destroy the 'historical anomaly' hated by the West," Medvedev said.
He also said that the West's "tolerance" of Nazi Germany's criminals after the end of World War II led to the situation that has now developed in Ukraine, the Baltic states and Poland. Medvedev said Russia, by starting the war to "demilitarize and 'denazify' Ukraine," gave Kiev "a chance to stop being a pawn" in other people's "bloody geopolitical games."
Medvedev earlier threatened World War III against the West for its attempts to "isolate" Russia on the international stage, as well as personally against US President Donald Trump, who began criticizing Vladimir Putin over his unwillingness to cease fire in Ukraine. The U.S. leader's special envoy Keith Kellogg called the hints "unfortunate, reckless" and incompatible with his status as a world power.
Medvedev again began scaring the West of a "world war" and the destruction of humanity after direct talks between Moscow and Kiev resumed on May 16. Before that, he advised the leaders of France, Germany, Britain and Poland to "shove their peace initiatives on Ukraine up their pangender asses."