LONDON: Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's former president, has warned that Moscow's confrontation with the West will last decades and that its conflict with Ukraine could become permanent. Medvedev, once seen in the West as a liberal moderniser, has emerged as one of Russia's most outspoken hawks since Moscow lau
LONDON: Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's former president, has warned that Moscow's confrontation with the West will last decades and that its conflict with Ukraine could become permanent.
In an article for the government's Rossiiskaya Gazeta newspaper, he said tensions between Russia and the West were"much worse" than during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis when the world teetered on the edge of a nuclear conflagration. "One thing that politicians of all stripes do not like to admit: Such an apocalypse is not only possible, but also quite probable," wrote Medvedev.Western analysts cast what they say is Medvedev's"nuclear sabre-rattling" as a tactic aimed at frightening the West to reduce military support for Ukraine and to instead lean on Kyiv to start peace talks with Moscow.
"Our goal is simple - to eliminate the threat of Ukraine's membership in NATO. And we will achieve it. One way or another," he said.
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