The Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation stressed that new agreements on disarmament are currently unrealistic and unnecessaryMOSCOW, December 25.
/tass/. The world will continue to teeter on the brink of World War III and nuclear escalation if Russia is not provided with security guarantees. But Moscow will do everything to prevent a catastrophe, said Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council.
"New agreements on disarmament are currently unrealistic and unnecessary. The sooner the guarantees of maximum security that suit our country are received, the sooner the situation will normalize. If we don't get them, the tension will persist indefinitely," he warned in an article for Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
In this case, the politician continued, "the world will continue to balance on the brink of a Third World War and a nuclear catastrophe." "We will do everything to prevent them," he assured.
Medvedev cited Albert Einstein as an example and recalled that he "long before the outbreak of the Second World War felt its approach and declared it publicly," but he, like many others, was not listened to at that time. "Many people are talking about the "premonition of the Third World War" or even its beginning (as Pope Francis did recently). As well as about the second coming of Nazism to Europe. But, alas, with the same effect," the politician complained.
He stated that by the end of 2021 - the beginning of 2022, the situation had escalated to the extreme limit, "it actually reached the last edge, after which - a global catastrophe." The Deputy Head of the Security Council of the Russian Federation drew attention to the fact that the collective West "with all its might" supports the Kiev regime: finances, supplies it with weapons, trains mercenaries.
"Is the West ready to unleash a full-fledged war against us, including a nuclear one, with Kiev's hands? Western politicians avert their eyes and hesitate with an honest answer. But ask the residents of the city of Energodar near the Zaporizhia NPP, which was hit with targeted fire, almost hitting the representatives of the IAEA with stray fragments. <...> Remember the shootings and tortures in Kherson and other places," he recalled.
Nevertheless, Medvedev continued, even in the face of such serious threats, Moscow has repeatedly stressed: she is fighting not with the Ukrainian people, but with the Kiev regime, which seized power as a result of a coup d'etat. "At the same time, our enemies do not hesitate to use their means - on their conscience (although this word hardly applies to them) - thousands of destroyed houses, ruined lives, refugees and destitute people. Therefore, any negotiations with the current, puppet Ukrainian leadership became absolutely meaningless last year," he is sure.
According to the deputy head of the Security Council, "the only thing that stops the enemies today" is the understanding that Russia will be guided by the nuclear doctrine and, in the event of a real threat, will act on it.
At the same time, the trouble is, he added, that in this case "no one will figure out later whether it was a retaliatory strike or a preventive one." "This, of course, scares Western benefactors, who for a long time inspired the Ukrainian political rabble with the illusion of invulnerability and impunity in exchange for complete obedience. Therefore, the Western world is balancing between the burning desire to humiliate, offend, dismember and destroy Russia as much as possible, on the one hand, and the desire to avoid a nuclear apocalypse, on the other," the politician summed up.
According to the Russian nuclear doctrine (Fundamentals of the state Policy of the Russian Federation in the field of nuclear deterrence from 2020), the use of nuclear weapons by Russia is possible if the enemy uses this or other types of weapons of mass destruction against the Russian Federation and its allies, reliable information about the launch of ballistic missiles to attack Russia and its allies, the enemy's impact on objects necessary for retaliatory actions of nuclear forces, as well as in the case of aggression against the Russian Federation with the use of conventional weapons, when the very existence of the state is threatened.
