MOSCOW, February 22. /TASS/. Russia risks being torn apart if it stops the special military operation before achieving victory, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said on his Telegram channel on Wednesday, commenting on the speech of US President Joe Biden, which he had made the day before in Warsaw.
"To paraphrase a well-known expression, Biden said in Warsaw: 'If Russia stops its invasion, it will end right now. If the Ukrainians stop defending themselves, it will be the end of Ukraine’. This is a pure lie. The truth is quite the opposite," Medvedev wrote. "If Russia stops its special military operation without achieving victory, it will no longer exist, it will be torn to pieces. If the US halts arms supplies to the Kiev regime, the war will end," the Russian politician said.
This is how the Russian politician has built a polemic with the American leader in absentia. They both paraphrased a well-known saying of Israeli politicians: "If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more ·violence. If the Jews put ·down their weapons ·today, there would be no ·more Israel."
When commenting on Biden's Warsaw speech, Medvedev slammed it as messianic sermon. "Biden addressed the Russian people in front of a crowd of Poles. In fact, he delivered a sermon in the traditional American Messianic vein," the politician wrote.
According to his assessment, the American leader "piled up words about how important it is to defend democracy, and that the US has no intention to attack Russia." "It looked dishonest and ridiculous. Who is this weird old man, anyway, broadcasting with a confused look from Poland? Why is he appealing to the people of another country at a time when they [the US] are full of domestic problems? Why the hell should we listen to a politician from a hostile country that exudes hatred for our homeland? Why should Russians believe the leader of the United States, which has unleashed the most wars in the 20th and 21st centuries, but reproaches us for our aggressiveness, [trust] a person who directs all his weakening intellectual capabilities only to have Russia suffer a ‘strategic defeat’?" Medvedev demanded.