.TomRTweets asks: Why did Russia's Dmitry Medvedev become an ultra-hawk?
Serving as president during Putin's 2008-2012 interregnum, Medvedev was viewed by the U.S. intelligence community as a genuine reformer. As a leader who intended to inject compromise into U.S.-Russia relations. This assessment underpinned the Obama administration's ill-fated attempt to"reset" relations with Moscow. It saw former President Barack Obama take Medvedev for burgers and Medvedev praise Obama as"a very pleasant man who it's a pleasure to deal with.
On Dec. 28, Medvedev attacked as"traitors" those Russians who opposed the war in Ukraine. Perhaps in extrajudicial reference to Russian oligarchs who have recently died in strange window-centric circumstances, Medvedev observed that the"traitors" must be treated as"enemies of the state ... even if no one initiated any administrative or criminal cases against [them]."
Declaring that"our world has changed" and"forever," Medvedev pledged that Russia would continue with its"denazification of the disgusting, almost fascist regime of Ukraine." Rejecting the likely necessity of far more circumspect objectives in Ukraine, Medvedev committed to the"complete demilitarization of the Ukrainian state" and its"guarantees against aggression in the future." Then came the hate. The Polish, of course, were front and center.
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