The previous US administration’s actions were “a grave mistake,” former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said
The recent phone conversation between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart, Donald Trump, was “important in itself,” as the world has been “balancing on the brink of Apocalypse” due to the actions of former US President Joe Biden’s administration, according to Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council.
In a social media post on Thursday, the former Russian president said Washington must recognize the value of dialogue with Moscow rather than pursuing strategic defeat against it.
He accused the US of acting as “the country-in-chief on our planet with the exclusive right” to wage what he described as a “hybrid war” against Russia. As a result, the world “was balancing on the brink of Apocalypse,” Medvedev wrote.
“Nobody attempted something like that before senile Biden’s team,” he said, adding that the former US administration severed all high-level contacts in an “attempt to punish and humiliate Russia.”
Medvedev called this “a grave mistake which nearly wiped humanity off the face of the earth.”
He added that the leaders of both countries had always maintained open lines of communication, which played a crucial role in resolving conflicts.
“It’s true that we would hold shouting matches with America and sometimes practiced brinkmanship, but nobody slapped personal sanctions on [Soviet leader Nikita] Khrushchev during the Cuban Missile Crisis or on [Leonid] Brezhnev during the conflict in Afghanistan or severed contacts between the heads of state,” Medvedev wrote.
He went on to say that the American elites and the “deep state” must finally recognize the importance of diplomatic cooperation with Moscow, as “it is impossible to bring [Russia] to its knees.”
He cautioned that if Washington fails to acknowledge this reality, tensions will only continue to escalate.
“If they don’t… The Doomsday Clock will keep on ticking towards midnight, and then we will surely ‘behold a pale horse, and the horseman’s name will be Death,’” Medvedev concluded, referencing the Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse from the Bible.
His remarks come after Putin and Trump held a phone talk on Wednesday, which marked the first known conversation between the leaders of the two nations since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022.
The presidents have agreed that the two countries should “work together” and backed the idea of resolving the conflict through diplomacy. They agreed to maintain personal contact in the future, including in-person meetings. Trump later named Saudi Arabia as a potential host for his first meeting with Putin in his second term. The Kremlin confirmed that Saudi Arabia was mentioned as a possible venue of the summit.
