{"id":16583,"date":"2022-09-14T12:09:09","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T16:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/?p=16583"},"modified":"2022-09-14T13:52:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T17:52:57","slug":"from-proxy-war-to-nuclear-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/?p=16583","title":{"rendered":"From Proxy War to Nuclear War?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Western <em>\u201chalf-wits\u201d<\/em> from <em>\u201cstupid think tanks\u201d<\/em>are leading their countries down the road of nuclear armageddon with their hybrid war against Moscow, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev wrote on his Telegram channel on Tuesday. Endlessly funneling weapons and support to Ukraine while pretending not to be directly involved in the conflict will not work, added the deputy chair of the Russian Security Council.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>\u201csecurity guarantees\u201d<\/em> proposal unveiled by Kiev on Tuesday was <em>\u201creally a prologue to the Third World War,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/medvedev_telegram\/177\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> Medvedev, calling it a <em>\u201chysterical appeal\u201d<\/em> to Western countries engaged in a proxy war against Russia.<\/p>\n<p>If the West continues its <em>\u201cunrestrained pumping of the Kiev regime with the most dangerous types of weapons,\u201d<\/em> Russia\u2019s military campaign will move to the next level, where <em>\u201cvisible boundaries and potential predictability of actions by the parties to the conflict\u201d<\/em> will be erased and the conflict will take on a life of its own, as wars always do, Medvedev argued.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAnd then the Western nations will not be able to sit in their clean homes, laughing at how they carefully weaken Russia by proxy. Everything will be on fire around them. Their people will harvest their grief in full. The land will be on fire and the concrete will melt,\u201d<\/em> Medvedev wrote, before citing a Bible verse from Revelations 9:18.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cYet still the narrow-minded politicians and their stupid think tanks, thoughtfully twirling a glass of wine in their hands, talk about how they can deal with us without entering into a direct war. Dull idiots with a classical education,\u201d<\/em>Medvedev wrote.<\/p>\n<p>His comments were prompted by Kiev\u2019s publication of a <em>\u201csecurity treaty\u201d<\/em>proposal, developed under the tutelage of former NATO secretary-general Anders Fogh Rasmussen. The draft envisions the US and its allies guaranteeing Ukraine\u2019s pre-2014 borders with weapons, ammunition, financial assistance and training, as well as committing to maintain sanctions against Russia for as long as Kiev wants, and handing over any confiscated Russian property to Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western \u201chalf-wits\u201d from \u201cstupid think tanks\u201dare leading their countries down the road of nuclear armageddon with their hybrid war against Moscow, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev wrote on his Telegram channel on Tuesday. Endlessly funneling weapons and support to Ukraine while pretending not to be directly involved in the conflict will not work, added the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[56,49,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-imperialism-and-war","category-international"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16585,"href":"http:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16583\/revisions\/16585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}