LONDON (Reuters) – Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev informed the United States on Wednesday that makes an attempt by the West to punish a nuclear power akin to Russia for the struggle in Ukraine risked endangering humanity.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has triggered essentially the most critical disaster in relations between Russia and the West for the reason that 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, when many individuals feared the world was getting ready to nuclear struggle.
Medvedev forged the United States as an empire which had spilled blood internationally, citing the killing of Native Americans, U.S. nuclear assaults on Japan and a host of wars starting from Vietnam to Afghanistan.
Attempts to make use of courts or tribunals to analyze Russia’s actions in Ukraine would, Medvedev mentioned, be futile and threat international devastation.
“The concept of punishing a nation that has one of many largest nuclear potentials is absurd. And doubtlessly poses a risk to the existence of humanity,” Medvedev, who now serves as deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, mentioned on Telegram.
Russia and the United States management about 90% of the world’s nuclear warheads, with round 4,000 warheads every of their navy stockpiles, in response to the Federation of American Scientists.
While president from 2008 to 2012, Medvedev offered himself as a reformer who wished higher relations with the West.
But since President Vladimir Putin ordered the Feb. 24 invasion,
he has recast himself as a vociferous Kremlin hardliner.
“The complete of American historical past, beginning with the conquest of the Native Indians, is a bloody struggle of annihilation,” he mentioned.
U.S. President Joe Biden says Putin is a struggle legal who launched an unlawful invasion of Ukraine. The United States is supplying arms to Ukraine which says it is preventing for its survival.
Russia says what it calls “a particular navy operation” is meant to degrade the Ukrainian navy and root out folks it calls harmful nationalists. Putin says the United States was utilizing Ukraine to threaten Russia.
Medvedev mentioned the United States had killed tens of millions of individuals internationally since World War Two.
(Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge; Editing by Angus MacSwan)
