Former Russian President and deputy chairman of Russia’s safety council Dmitry Medvedev issued a warning to US President Donald Trump, reminding him of how harmful these he labels ‘lifeless’ might be.
In a put up on Reality Social, Trump had stated, “I do not care what India does with Russia. They will take their lifeless economies down collectively, for all I care. We now have executed little or no enterprise with India, their tariffs are too excessive, among the many highest within the World. Likewise, Russia and the USA do virtually no enterprise collectively.”
The US President additional singled out Medvedev in his put up and took a swipe at him: “Let’s preserve it that method, and inform Medvedev, the failed former President of Russia, who thinks he’s nonetheless President, to observe his phrases. He’s getting into very harmful territory!”
Trump’s comment on the 2 nations’ economies got here a day after he introduced 25 per cent tariffs on India, plus a penalty for its purchases from Russia.
He had disapproved of India’s defence offers with Russia and stated, “Additionally, they’ve at all times purchased a overwhelming majority of their army tools from Russia, and are Russia’s largest purchaser of ENERGY, together with China, at a time when everybody desires Russia to STOP THE KILLING IN UKRAINE — ALL THINGS NOT GOOD!”
In the meantime, Medvedev stated that Trump’s remarks solely confirmed that Russia was doing all the pieces proper, and it ought to proceed on the identical path.
“If some phrases from the previous president of Russia set off such a nervous response from the high-and-mighty president of america, then Russia is doing all the pieces proper and can proceed to proceed alongside its personal path,” Medvedev stated in a put up on Telegram.
Responding to Trump’s remarks on Russia’s financial system, Dmitry Medvedev stated, “As for the speak in regards to the ‘lifeless economies’ of India and Russia, and ‘getting into harmful territory’ – perhaps he ought to recall his favorite motion pictures about ‘the strolling lifeless’, and in addition bear in mind how harmful the fabled ‘Lifeless Hand’, which does not even exist, might be.”
The ‘Lifeless Hand’ is a reference to a secret semi-automated Russian command system, which is designed to launch Moscow’s nuclear missiles if its management is eradicated in a lethal strike by an enemy, a Reuters report stated.
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Medvedev has emerged as one of many Kremlin’s most outspoken anti-Western leaders. Although some Kremlin critics ridicule him as an ‘irresponsible free canon’, some Western diplomats say that his remarks give a flavour of considering in Russia’s policy-making circles.
Earlier as effectively, Trump had hit out at Medvedev, accusing him of throwing across the “N (nuclear) phrase” after Russian officers criticised the US strikes on Iran and stated {that a} “variety of international locations” had been prepared to offer Iran with nuclear warheads. “I suppose that is why Putin’s ‘THE BOSS’,” Trump had stated.
