Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev: If The US Wants To Isolate Itself, Good Riddance, They Can Live On A Reservation

THEO VAN GOGH EXPRESSIONS : MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 10400

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is making a political comeback. He had lost the job of prime minister, after presiding over the unpopular pension reforms and was targeted by Alexei Navalny prior to Navalny’s imprisonment for ill-gotten wealth. Medvedev was not even on United Russia’s candidate slate in the last elections, although he remained chairman of the ruling party. Now he was recently chosen to carry a message from Putin to Xi Jin Ping. This was followed by his appointment to oversee Russia’s military industrial complex.

Part of Medvedev’s rise has been facilitated by his metamorphosis from reputed liberal to super-hawk. Another sign of Medvedev’s rise is the lengthy article summing up the results of 2022 that he wrote for Rossiskaya Gazeta. Due to the article’s length, MEMRI is serializing it in two parts.

Medvedev, once the darling of the West, particularly during the first Obama Administration, claims that the West has backed Ukraine in an effort to first keep Russia down and then destroy it totally. These plans will fail, and while the West thinks it can isolate Russia, the reverse is taking place and the West is isolating itself from the rest of the World. Russia will resume relations with the West only when a generation of sensible Western leaders comes to power. Part I of Medvedev’s article titled “Our People, Our Land, Our Truth” follows below: (all emphases, original)

The year 2022 is drawing to its end. [It was] a challenging, formidable, dramatic year; a year that marked a threshold of a new era, which is already marked by fundamental changes in everything: from the alignment of global “power centers” to the daily way of life of many people. An inevitable transformation awaits the majority of international institutions (that have been created over many decades).

They have decayed considerably and do not fulfil their tasks. Some of them have become purely decorative, others – are trying to preserve their former influence, though not very successfully. Some are just being formed…

Years and even generations later, historians will, naturally, give a “timeless verdict” on what happened in our day and to how it all ended. Time will judge everyone. The experts of the future will “dust off” the digital information about the events of 2022, quietly turning over its virtual pages and then close the saved files.

But we, simply, don’t have the opportunity to wait for abstractly wise but belated assessments. We live in the here and now. Our world has changed, and it’s forever. And the main thing to understand is where it is heading right now (along with us). What future begins today? What awaits us? And most importantly, how to act. It is of critical importance to find these answers as quickly as possible.

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