Medvedev threatens the Germans with dying | EUROtoday

WIf the outrage in German-Russian relations is especially excessive, ambassadors from one nation are summoned to the overseas ministry of the opposite nation. On Monday a scenario arose that, from an unbiased perspective, may signify a sure imbalance.

Following the Russian publication of a secret service-recorded dialog by which Bundeswehr officers mentioned the potential supply of Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine, Russia's former President Dmitry Medvedev has referred to as for Germans to be killed. Chancellor Olaf Scholz has already dominated out Taurus supply. Nevertheless, the Russian ambassador in Berlin was not summoned to the German Foreign Ministry.

Rather, in keeping with his personal statements, the German ambassador in Moscow was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry “to discuss various bilateral issues”, whereas in keeping with the state information company “in connection with the German officers’ discussion about attacks on the Crimean Bridge”. Russia presents this highway and rail connection to the occupied Ukrainian peninsula as civil infrastructure. It was in-built violation of worldwide legislation and is essential not just for supplying Crimea, but in addition for the Russian invaders in southern Ukraine.

Moscow is utilizing the recording to say that Germany is planning to assault Russia. Dmitry Medvedev, now President Vladimir Putin's deputy as chairman of the National Security Council, recognized “planned attacks on our country.” “Our eternal enemies, the Germans, have once again turned into sworn enemies,” Medvedev continued on Telegram. He didn't know how you can “react to this diplomatically,” he wrote, after which approvingly quoted a poem from 1942 that, referring to the German attacker on the time, demanded: “As often as you see him, as often as you kill him!”

Compare with Nazi Germany

As if the Bundeswehr had occupied Russia just like the Wehrmacht as soon as did, Medvedev added. “The call of the Great Patriotic War from 1941 to 1945 is relevant again: “Death to the German, fascist occupiers!” He wrote the latter in capital letters. Scholz was a “peace-loving boy” and “liverwurst chancellor,” however may very well be persuaded by his army to begin a struggle, Medvedev wrote. And he claimed: “Germany is preparing for war with Russia.”

Lower House Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin requested rhetorically on Telegram whether or not Scholz understood that “attacks on Russia” would power Moscow to “respond.” In the Sunday night newsreel “News of the Week”, the moderator, Dmitry Kiselyov, listed German bridges that may very well be the goal of Russian “response strikes”. According to Kiselyov, that might be “a shame, but what should we do? They are not sorry about our Crimean bridge.”

The deputy chairman of the higher home, Konstantin Kosachev, wrote for the federal government newspaper “Rossiskaya Gazeta” a couple of “new Barbarossa of German soldiers” in reference to Nazi Germany’s assault on the Soviet Union in 1941. The German management should “give a convincing answer not only to us but also to its own citizens about hidden facts and attempts to drag the country into a direct military conflict with a nuclear power.”

Crimean bridge has been attacked a number of occasions

The menace of retaliation, together with nuclear strikes, if Western weapons are used in opposition to annexed Russian territories just isn’t new for Russia. Before the newest spherical of annexations in autumn 2022, Medvedev even mentioned that “any Russian weapon could be used to “protect” the related areas, together with strategic nuclear weapons. But the menace just isn’t applied. Not even when, as occurs recurrently, American and British rockets and cruise missiles are used to assault army targets within the Ukrainian territories annexed by Russia, together with Crimea.

The Crimean Bridge has additionally already grow to be the goal of Ukrainian assaults in October 2022 and July 2023. Russia continued its struggle of aggression utilizing standard means similar to fixed drone and missile assaults. The Russian marketing campaign has all of the hallmarks of an affect operation geared toward intimidating Germany, which Kosachev's article makes look like a very worthwhile goal. Berlin needed to cover from the general public that “Germany is fighting on the side of Ukraine” and thereby “absolutely ignored the will of its own people,” the overseas politician wrote. “According to surveys, only 20 percent of Germans are willing to provide additional support to Kiev, and only one in ten believes in Ukraine’s victory.”

Moscow politicians from the AfD and the “Sarah Wagenknecht Alliance” are seen as guarantors for a special Germany that’s extra nice to Putin. In this case too, they undertake the Russian illustration of Crimea as “Russian territory” and are quoted extensively within the state media. On Monday, Putin's spokesman additionally commented on the wiretapping affair. We hope to search out out what the German investigation will result in, mentioned Dmitry Peskov. He repeated Moscow's assertion that the Bundeswehr was discussing “attacks on Russian territory”. The query is to what extent Scholz controls the scenario. The course of exhibits as soon as once more that the “collective West,” mentioned Peskov, utilizing a Putin phrase for his opponents, “is directly involved in the conflict over Ukraine.”