Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev today described Joe Biden as “crazy and mentally disabled” in a venomous tirade directed at the US president following his State of the Union address yesterday.
Biden opened his speech with a reference to a 1941 speech to Congress by the 32nd president of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, who declared that the union was facing a turning point unprecedented in history.
Biden also accused Republican rival Donald Trump of kowtowing to Russia and, just over two weeks after calling Vladimir Putin a “crazy son,” said he had a message for the Russian president on Ukraine: “We are not going away.”
His comments angered the increasingly combative Medvedev, who accused Biden of trying to start World War III and chided him for comparing himself to Roosevelt.
‘Although Roosevelt was a sick man in a wheelchair, he brought the United States out of the Depression; Biden, on the other hand, is a crazy and mentally disabled individual who set out to drag humanity to hell,” Putin’s ally, who is now vice president of the Russian Security Council, wrote in X.
‘Roosevelt, together with his allies, including the USSR, fought for peace; However, Biden is actively and persistently trying to start World War III.
‘Roosevelt was fighting fascists, but Biden is fighting for them. He is America’s disgrace!’ Medvedev concluded.
Deputy Head of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev takes part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Alexander Garden on Defender of the Fatherland Day in Moscow, Russia, Friday, February 23 of 2024.
President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill, March 7, 2024, in Washington.
Medvedev accused Biden of trying to start World War III and chastised him for comparing himself to Roosevelt.
United States President Joe Biden delivers the annual State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the House chamber of the Capital Building on March 7, 2024 in Washington, DC.
In his State of the Union address, Biden accused Republican rival Donald Trump of kowtowing to Russia and, just over two weeks after calling Vladimir Putin a “crazy son,” said he had a message for the Russian president. on Ukraine: ‘We will not make it go away’
FILE: Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (R) in Moscow, May 9, 2019
Medvedev, who presented himself as a liberal modernizer when he was president from 2008 to 2012, now presents himself as an anti-Western Kremlin hawk.
Diplomats say his views give an indication of what the highest levels of the Kremlin elite think.
The war in Ukraine has triggered a deep crisis in Russia’s relations with the West, and Biden angered Russian officials with his “crazy son of a bitch” comment.
Biden made that comment in one sentence about threats to the world, including “that guy Putin and others,” the risk of nuclear conflict and the existential threat to humanity from climate change.
But Putin, with a wry smile, said the comment showed why the Kremlin felt Biden was a preferable future president to Trump.
Medvedev also made headlines just a few days ago when he claimed that the relationship between the United States and Russia is worse than during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, when the Kremlin accused the West of “direct involvement” in the war in Ukraine.
The former Russian president made the comments in a public speech, adding that the Kremlin has ruled out peace talks with Ukraine as its invasion of the nation entered its third year.
Medvedev was speaking in front of a map of Ukraine that showed the country as a much smaller landlocked territory, squeezed against Poland, with Russia in full control of its eastern and southern coasts and the Black Sea.
“One of Ukraine’s former leaders said at some point that Ukraine is not Russia,” Medvedev said.
‘That concept must disappear forever. Ukraine is definitely Russia,” she said to applause from the audience.
FILE: Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev holds a Russian-made Orsis gun during a visit to the Promtechnologiya firearms company in Moscow, Nov. 19, 2013.
FILE: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (R) and President Dmitry Medvedev address members of the United Russia Party at the United Russia Party headquarters during the nationwide parliamentary elections December 4, 2011 in Moscow, Russia.
Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson speaks during a press conference at the government headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden.
Sweden’s accession to NATO constitutes a serious blow to the Russian president, who has sought to prevent further strengthening of the alliance and has threatened to take unspecified “political and military-technical countermeasures” in response.
Biden’s State of the Union address that irritated Medvedev came just after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken approved the final documents ratifying Sweden’s accession to NATO.
The move was a stunning break from a two-century-old policy of military neutrality in Sweden, which has not been involved in armed conflict since the early 19th century.
Prompted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Scandinavian nation and its Nordic partner Finland undertook a comprehensive review of their long-standing national security policy and just two months later applied to join the giant bloc.
Twenty-two months later, the Swedish Prime Minister, Ulf Kristersson, delivered the final documentation yesterday in a ceremony presided over by Blinken, after which Stockholm’s “instrument of accession” to the alliance was officially deposited with the State Department.
‘This is a historic moment for Sweden. It is historic for the alliance. “It’s history of the transatlantic relationship,” Blinken said, with Kristersson adding that Sweden is now “a safer country.”
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg also described it as “a historic day” in which Sweden “will take its rightful place at the NATO table, with an equal voice in shaping NATO policies and decisions.” NATO”.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declared: “One more country in Europe is more protected from the Russian evil.
“Now, at a time of Russian aggression against everything that has made Europe peaceful and united, everyone sees how important it is to maintain alliances and partnerships, strengthen our own security and care for the security of neighbors,” he added in his speech. evening.
Meanwhile, Putin has remained silent on the matter, but Sweden joining the security alliance will be a blow to the Russian president. which has tried to prevent further strengthening of NATO, and presents its invasion of Ukraine as a response to safeguard Russia’s future against the West.