Comments by Russia’s former president and the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff underlined forecasts that the war in Ukraine is set t
The Russian leadership continues to get increasingly irrational.
Dmitry Medvedev used to be prime minister and president of Russia when Putin was constitutionally required to take a time out. He's still deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia.
Medvedev has a reputation for drinking a lot. Even apart from frequent inebriation, his comments about the war have gotten more and more unhinged. He's now saying the war could go on for "decades".
A top ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin said the Ukraine war could last for decades, with long periods of fighting interspersed by truces.
Russia’s RIA news agency said that former president Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Putin’s powerful security council, had spoken during a visit to Vietnam.
Medvedev often makes hard line comments and last month described Ukrainian authorities as an infection.
“This conflict will last a very long time, most likely decades,” RIA cited Medvedev as saying on Thursday.
Yes, this war is the same "special operation" which was supposed to last a couple of days. Russian leaders don't have a lot of cred regarding the war.
Getting back to Medvedev, he was obviously drunk at a (then) G-8 meeting in Italy in 2009.
^^^ Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, after finishing a conversation with Japan's Prime Minister Tarō Asō, had to physically point Medvedev in the right direction.
A few months ago Medvedev urged current Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to commit seppuku.
Medvedev says Japanese PM should disembowel himself
In general, Medvedev makes the sort of comments that would occasionally make Donald Trump seem comparatively sane and moderate. Sad to say that Medvedev isn't atypical of the people in the Kremlin leadership.
