The Kremlin has warned that World War Three could start at any moment if Donald Trump ‘continues his insane course’.
Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, a close Putin ally, claimed that a new global conflict will make the nuclear bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki look like ‘child’s play’.
The US president has made a ‘gross mistake’ by attacking Iran and he will spark all out conflict if he ‘continues his insane course of criminal regime change’, Medvedev warned.
‘This is a war of the US and its allies for maintaining global dominance.
‘The pigs don’t want to part with the trough.’
Medvedev, who was Russian president from 2008 to 2012, was asked if WW3 had begun.
He replied: ‘Formally, no, but if Trump continues his insane course of criminal regime change, it will undoubtedly begin.
‘And any event could be the trigger. Any event.’
Medvedev, Putin’s deputy on the Russian security council, said of Western leaders: ‘There’s no magic cure for the actions of hardcore idiots and clinical bastards.
‘There’s only one guarantee: the USA is afraid of Russia and knows the price of a nuclear conflict.
‘In the event of its occurrence, Hiroshima and Nagasaki will be child’s play in the sandbox [sandpit]’.
He told state news agency TASS that US and Israeli citizens were now at risk after the military operation against Iran.
‘I think their vulnerability has significantly increased,’ he said.
‘The fact that the Iranians haven’t responded too seriously yet means that they don’t have many options.
‘But they know how to wait, this is an ancient civilisation.
‘Trump made a gross mistake.
‘By his decision, he put all Americans under potential attack, even though the Iranian regime is not well-liked in neighbouring Arab countries.
‘The main thing, however, is that the late Ayatollah was the spiritual father of almost 300 million Shiites. And now he’s a martyr. You can fill in the rest yourself.
‘And now there’s no doubt that Iran will strive with redoubled energy to acquire nuclear weapons.’
Medvedev claimed that Iran — a key Russian ally, who Moscow is so far failing to support militarily – will withstand the US and Israeli onslaught.
‘I’ve already said that Iran, as the heir to the former Persian Empire, is an ancient world and culture,’ he said.
‘They will cope, but the price of revival will be high.
‘It requires a high level of societal consolidation. And the Americans have provided such consolidation.’
Asked about the reactions of European capitals, he said: ‘Flattery and disgust.
‘European vassals are licking their lips and delighting in receiving a portion of American-Israeli “yellow dew” right in the eyes.’
Negotiations on Ukraine are not the most important thing, said Medvedev.
Winning the war was the most crucial aim for Moscow, he said.
Medvedev was president for four years and was modern Russia’s longest-serving prime minister.
On Sunday, Putin shamelessly condemned the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as a ‘cynical violation’ of ‘international law’, as the ‘axis of evil’ comes together in a chorus of condemnation.
The Russian dictator said the joint US-Israeli strikes on the Supreme Leader’s home in Tehran on Saturday – which also killed his daughter, grandchild, daughter-in-law and son-in-law – lacked ‘human morality’.
In a note to Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian, Putin said: ‘Please accept my deep condolences in connection with the murder of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Seyed Ali Khamenei, and members of his family, committed in cynical violation of all norms of human morality and international law.’
His comments on Sunday came just days after the fourth anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Putin was joined by other leaders of the so-called axis of evil in condemning Khamenei’s killing – as China and North Korea linked arms with Russia.
