No One Can Rule Out A Transition of the Conflict to Its Final Stage

Dmitry Medvedev (Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council) (Дмитрий Медведев) |Western countries that have supposedly “approved the use” of their long-range weapons on Russian territory (regardless of whether we are talking about old or new parts of our country) should clearly understand the following:

  1. All their military equipment and specialists fighting against us will be destroyed both on the territory of Ukraine and on the territory of other countries if strikes are launched from there against the territory of Russia.
  2. Russia assumes that all long-range weapons used by former Ukraine are already directly controlled by NATO military personnel. [Plus this:] Ukraine is already being directly controlled by NATO military personnel. This is not “military assistance”, but participation in the war against us. And their actions may well become a casus belli.
  3. NATO will have to decide how to qualify the consequences of possible retaliatory strikes against equipment/objects/military personnel of individual countries of the bloc in the context of Articles 4 and 5 of the Washington Treaty.

In all likelihood, the NATO leadership wants to pretend that we are talking about the sovereign decisions of individual countries of the North Atlantic Alliance to support the Kyiv regime, and that there is no reason to apply the rule of the 1949 Treaty on Collective Self-Defense.

These are dangerous and harmful misconceptions. Such “individual assistance” by NATO countries against Russia, whether it means commandeering long-range cruise missiles or sending a contingent of troops to Ukraine, is a serious escalation of the conflict. The former Ukraine and its NATO allies will receive a response of such destructive force, that the Alliance itself simply will not be able to keep from becoming involved in the conflict.

Retired NATO fools may talk about how Russia will never use non-strategic nuclear weapons against Ukraine, and even against certain NATO countrie, [but remember] life is much scarier than their frivolous musings.

A few years ago, they were saying that Russia would not go to an open military conflict with the Banderite regime in order not to quarrel with the West. They miscalculated. We are at war now.

The [West's] use of nuclear weapons could also be a miscalculation. But this would be a fatal blunder. After all, as the Russian President rightly pointed out, European countries have a very high population density. And for those enemy countries whose lands are beyond the nuclear coverage zone, there is, finally, [still] a strategic potential.

And this, alas, is neither intimidation nor nuclear bluff. The current military conflict with the West is developing according to the worst possible scenario. There is a constant escalation of the power of applicable NATO weapons. Therefore, today no one can rule out the transition of the conflict to its final stage.(Translation: DeepL + Grammarly)

■ Ex-Russian president warns NATO of nuclear ‘miscalculation’ (RT.com)
■ NATO weapons to be hit in any country from where Russia may be attacked — Medvedev (TASS)