Dmitry Medvedev says Ukraine should not exist in any form, calling it a ‘cancerous growth’
Russian Security Council Chairman Dmitry Medvedev took to Telegram on Wednesday to argue, not for the first time, that Ukraine should not exist in any form.
In a mini-essay titled “Why Ukraine is dangerous for its residents,” Medvedev argued that from now on, any independent state that lies on “historical Russian territories” will serve as a “pretext for renewed hostilities” for as long as it exists. “By no means am I only referring to the current state, the Banderite political regime. I’m talking about any version of Ukraine whatsoever,” he stressed.
Calling Ukraine a “cancerous growth,” the former Russian president insisted that the war-ravaged country will always be illegitimate from a legal perspective, no matter who its leader is.
“Therefore, the risk of renewed clashes will persist indefinitely. Practically forever. Furthermore, there’s a 100 percent chance of a new conflict, regardless of any papers about security that the West signs with the Kyiv puppet regime,” said Medvedev. “Neither Ukraine’s association with the E.U. nor even the accession of this artificial country into NATO can prevent it.”
The threatening message concluded with a prediction that because Ukrainians are “practical people at the end of the day,” they will ultimately “choose life”:
They’ll understand that life in one large common state, even one that they don’t much like at the moment, is better than death — their death and the deaths of their loved ones. And the sooner the Ukrainians wrap their heads around this, the better.
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