Dmitry Medvedev said Saturday that Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida should perform a ritualistic suicide by disembowelment to repent for what Medvedev called servitude to the United States.
Friday by President Biden and Kishida, in which the leaders said that “any use of a nuclear weapon by Russia in Ukraine would be an act of hostility against humanity and unjustifiable in any way.”should their invasion of Ukraine face more setbacks.
Medvedev, who was president from 2008 to 2012 and is deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, said in a Telegram that the statement by Kishida and Biden amounted to “paranoia.” He added that Kishida was a “servant” to the United States.The only way for Kishida to atone for “such a shame” would be to perform a “hara-kiri” in front of a meeting of his cabinet, Medvedev said, using a Japanese term for an ancient ritualistic disembowelment.only that he “described a method” for Kishida to repent.
As president, Medvedev was viewed optimistically in the West as a potential partner in forging improved relations. But in 2011, he went along with a switch that returned Putin to the presidency, and in early 2020, Medvedev resigned as prime minister to make way for constitutional changes that allowed Putin to serve further terms and tighten his grip on power.
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February, Medvedev has sought relevance as an attack dog, using his Telegram account to issue bombastic and hyperbolic threats against the West, including that Russia would potentially use nuclear weapons, as well as insults against public figures he perceives as enemies. He has also called for Ukraine’s
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