Medvedev Cites Pushkin (Satis Shroff)
In comparison to his otherwise direct and sanguine art, Medvedev waxes poetic this time and even quotes from Pushkin, and thinks loudly: ‘ it wouldn’t be bad if the restless French sent a couple of regiments to Banderaland,’ meaning thereby Ukraine.‘
With the ‘restless French’ he means President Macron, who was rather conspicuous in his public statement of sending his French troops to help the Ukrainians. Aside from the Czech side, there hasn’t been any Nato conference on Macro’s military proposal.
Unlike Germany’s careful Chancellor Scholz, Macron likes to put himself in the media limelight and speaks his thoughts and intentions aloud.
Medvedev sallies forth and mentions laconically that in doing so, Macron would ‘make the task of their (French troops) systematic extermination’ and adds it would be a ‘supremely important task for the Russian Forces.’
Alas, the people of Russia will not be able to say farewell to their sons and fathers who have fallen in the Killing Fields of Ukraine. Why? Because the corpses are buried hurriedly by the same Russian Forces in mass graves. The dead Russian fathers and sons will feature in the ‘missing in in action’ list, if at all. There have been many cases of Russian soldiers being shot from behind by their own Russian comrades when the krieg got too hot and they tried to flee from the Front. The Wagner mercenaries had received explicit instruction to shoot Russian troops.
No corpses evident means no lives lost: this is the interpretation of Kremlin’s propaganda. Medvedev even dares to sarcastically say: ‘Oh, what a benefit it would bring.’ He paints a macabre scenario of ‘so many coffins being sent to France. Everyone would see the ‘mass death of professional soldiers.’
And adds ‘Their destruction will be a top priority and glorious task for our Armed Forces.’ He elaborates that it will be akin to the guillotine.
Then a touche at the ‘French opposition, who were led to believe that France isn’t at with Russia.’
Medvedev calls Europeans ‘the other restless fools in Europe’ and will provide them a ‘valuable lesson.’ This is speculation, of course, because given the weapon supplies to the Ukrainians, the Russian troops will not be behaving like military pedagogians in their trenches and behind their dragon’s teeth fortifications, since they will be engaged in a war in which Ukraine will develop immense firepower.
The question is: who has been taught a bitter lesson? In what began as a blitzkrieg and short-lived invasion of a few weeks, Selensky has taught Putin a bitter military lesson that will be taught in all military academies around the world under the chapter: Never Underestimate your Enemy. Two years have gone by, thousands of dead soldiers later, Russia is now surrounded by Nato nations. Lesson? Don’t make the mistake of underestimating the Nato.
