Medvedev began his Thursday post with the sentence that the entire North Atlantic Alliance is crazy.
“First, the US will kill the Iranian leader and start a war in the Middle East. Then the NATO idiots, led by Trump’s obedient ‘son’ Rutte, are considering applying Article 5,” wrote Medvědev in a post where he mentioned the name of NATO chief Mark Rutte.
The possible activation of Article 5 was due to the fact that Iran sent a ballistic missile towards Turkey, which was destroyed by the defense of the alliance. But Rutte clearly said that NATO is not considering activating Article 5.
“Nobody is talking about Article 5,” Rutte said, according to Reuters. “The most important thing is that our adversaries saw yesterday that NATO is very strong and alert, and even more alert from Saturday, if that’s still possible,” he added.
Medvédev also ironically proposed the nomination of Trump for the Nobel Prize, which the head of the White House was thinking about last year.
“How about nominating the President of the United States for the Nobel Peace Prize for starting a great war, eh?” Medvedev dug. “Orwell was right: war is peace!” then he recalled the novel 1984 by the British writer George Orwell, in which one of the three slogans of the Party, which represents the totalitarian regime in the book, is “war is peace”.
At the same time, Russia itself has been waging a war against Ukraine for twelve years, which Medvedev himself defends and sends threats to all parties in connection with it. In 2008, it also started a short war in Georgia and has been occupying Georgian South Ossetia and Abkhazia ever since. Previously, it also attacked Chechnya, for example.
Although Medvedev’s vocabulary is traditionally sharper regarding Iran, it does not deviate from the expected official line of Moscow. Russia is a long-standing ally of Iran.
The spokeswoman for Russian diplomacy, Marija Zakharovová, refers to the attack as a plan to violently overthrow the government in Iran. The state-run TASS agency also said that the Russians are calling for a diplomatic solution and that all sides should stop the attacks.
So far, however, Russia has not supported the Middle Eastern country in any way other than words. Similarly, neither Venezuela, whose authoritarian president Nicolás Maduro was kidnapped by the USA, nor Bashar al-Assad, who had to flee from Syria to Moscow, came to the rescue.
Medvedev commented on the Israeli-American strikes on the X network already on February 28, that is, the day they began. At the time, he stated that the “peace negotiator”, i.e. Trump, “is in action again” and that the American negotiations with Iran were “just a cover”.
