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Putin ally warns 'enemy' Poland: you risk losing your statehood (www.reuters.com)

submitted 1 year ago by 0x815@feddit.de to c/europe@feddit.de

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Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, now deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, made the comments in an 8,000-word article on Russian-Polish relations, saying Moscow now had a "dangerous enemy" in Poland.

Poland, which has backed Ukraine, accuses Russia of trying to destabilise the country with disinformation campaigns and espionage. Moscow has condemned what it sees as Warsaw's hostile stance towards it and Russian interests in Poland.

There was no immediate response to Medvedev's comments from Poland.

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[–] gigachad@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Classic trolling by Medvedev

[–] interolivary@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's funny how at one time he was the sane alternative to Putin. I wonder what happened

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've seen people speculate he's being insane to rule himself out as a possible alternative so that Putin does not kill him. Otherwise if he was a viable alternative, sanctioned oligarchs might decide to off Putin and get Medvedev in to get the sanctions lifted.

[–] interolivary@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

That's not a bad hypothesis at all. He really does seem to be much more unhinged than he was during his stint as president when he was pretty milquetoast in comparison, so I can't help but wonder wtf's going on

[–] pfannkuchen_gesicht@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In an alternate reality? In this one he never was.

[–] MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly, he was always just another evil shit.

[–] interolivary@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure, he's still a Russian politician so some level of "evil" is to be expected, but would you seriously claim he was exactly as unhinged when he was president? Because if you would, either you weren't paying attention then or you're not paying attention now – something's definitely changed, and it's not like I'm the only person who's noticed.

The Guardian brought it up a year ago, and eg. the Harvard Kennedy School's Russia Matters project even has a list outlining how cramatically his views have changed

[–] MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

No, no, he never seemed unhinged, but since I live in a places that's somewhat similar I know you just can't treat regime men as men. He doesn't have anything without daddy so he says what daddy says, we could say he's just another mouthpiece

[–] interolivary@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

He wasn't nearly as insane when he was president for that short while