What Putin’s loud propagandist wants

Dimitri Medvedev (left), Vladimir Putin

The Kremlin leader and Medvedev share a long history.

(Photo: dpa)

Dusseldorf Always these word salvos. Those Russians who left the country after the partial mobilization were recently insulted by Dimitri Medvedev on Twitter as “cowardly traitors” and “greedy defectors”. Their bones should “rot in a foreign country”. Ukraine and the West are “part of a dying world,” a system driven by the devil himself. One finds oneself in the “holy warfare against Satan”.

For months, the West has looked with increasing dismay at the man who was Russia’s president between 2008 and 2012, before gradually disappearing from public consciousness to celebrate his public resurrection this year as the Kremlin’s chain dog.

Nobody threatens the West with nuclear war more often, nobody mocks the arch-enemies with more drastic formulations. He recently called US President Joe Biden a “grandfather with dementia” and the EU leadership a “cluster of crazy people”. And he described Ukraine as a “freak” that needs to be erased from the map. Is the man out of control?

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