Russia’s Medvedev says Trump’s decisions on Russia ‘like an act of war’

Al Arabiya ^ | 10/23/2025 | Reuters

[marcusmaximus]

Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday that decisions by the Trump administration to cancel a summit in Budapest and impose sanctions on Russian oil companies showed that Washington was “on the warpath” with Moscow.

“The US is our enemy, and their talkative ‘peacemaker’ has now fully embarked on the warpath with Russia,” Medvedev wrote on Telegram, referring to US President Donald Trump.

“The decisions taken are an act of war against Russia. And now Trump has fully aligned himself with loony Europe.”

[marcusmaximus]

Russian hoe mad.

[RoosterRedux]

Medvedev: "Trump's committing an act of war!"

**Yawn**

[Pete Dovgan]

Sanctions are not war.

Invading your neighbors, killing people, raping women, and stealing kids is war.

Vlad the Invader has done this 7 times, to all nearby neighbors. Don’t blame the US for not wanting to trade with you, or the people that trade with you, because you invade others.

I guess Trump thought that sanctions were better than Tomahawks....meh.

[Mastador1]

Medvedev says “Blah Blah Blah Blah” threats of a nuclear response, act of war, Blah, Blah, Blah”. It’s nice that Russia has clowns.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

No, cancelling a meeting and refusing to trade with another country are not “acts of war”.

[BroJoeK]

Putin's Deputy Chairman of the Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev
showing map of Russia's goals in Ukraine as of 2024:

Mad-Vlad the Invader's publicly announced goals in Ukraine include the following:

1. A disarmed & legally neutralized/neutered Ukraine

2. Installation of a Russian puppet regime to rule over Ukraine

3. Annexation of Crimea

4. Annexation of Luhansk and Donetsk Oblasts

5. Annexation of Kherson and Zaporizhya Oblasts

6. Conquest of Odessa and Kharkiv Oblasts

7. No NATO membership or presence in Ukraine, or in other ex-Soviet countries i.e., Moldova, Georgia, Central Asia.

8. Deactivation of NATO in countries admitted to NATO after 1997, withdrawal of NATO forces & weapons from those countries.

9. No NATO deployment of intermediate missiles in Europe.

10. Russian language reinstated as Ukraine's co-official language.

11. Legal immunity for Russian war crimes.

12. Rewriting Ukrainian history -- erasing narratives of independence, framing Ukraine as an artificial state.

13. Delegitimizing Western alliances -- framing Russian invasions as a civilizational clash against “decadent” Western values.

14. Russian land bridge to Transnistria, including Ukraine's Mykolaiv and Odessa oblasts.

15. Absorption of Belarus into a unified military-political structure.

16. Retaking Baltic states ("denazify" and "demilitarize")

    Putin awards Solovyov:

    

17. Official propagandist Vladimir Solovyov (October 3, 2025):
    “We could have simply destroyed everything.
    We had a different objective.
    I think we should go all the way to Lisbon…
    There are 500 million of them (Europeans) and 140 million of us.
    We can go all the way there, but how do we hold it?
    Over scorched Earth?
    After nuclear strikes?
    That’s one option.”

18. Solovyov (August 2025): “If we don’t win, we won’t exist.”

19. Removal of Western Sanctions and restoring Russian Western assets worth circa $350 billion.

[Vermont Lt]

Did he threaten nukes again? It’s that time of the week.

[Old West Conservative]

Or of the month, in Medvedev’s case.

[butlerweave]

Putin probably acted like a complete A$$ on the phone to get what you’re getting

[ProudDeplorable]

Medvedev’s trying to be relevant.

[1Old Pro]

Today I heard even more sanctions on Russia from the U.S and the EU. Once Russia loses buyers for oil they will fail.

[montag813]

Medvedev with yet another silly tweet.

But for the first time, he has not included a nuclear threat. Did someone water down his vodka?

[rrrod]

FR Putinistas just had tingles run up their legs... lol

[Kazan]

Trump supporters MOST CERTAINLY DID NOT vote for Trump to double down on Biden's failed sanction strategy that increased oil and gas prices and inflation on American citizens.

[marcusmaximus]

Stop rooting against President Trump, Ivan. Your Antifa act is getting old.

[kiryandil]

[marcusmaximus]

Indian hoe mad. Lol!

[kiryandil]

What Kherson doink?

[BroJoeK]

Kazan: "Trump supporters MOST CERTAINLY DID NOT vote for Trump to double down on Biden's failed sanction strategy that increased oil and gas prices and inflation on American citizens."

Gas & oil prices are down under Pres. Trump, as is inflation.

And you'd know that if you ever came out of your Kremlin bunker to visit the US and see for yourself, comrade.

[BroJoeK]

kiryandil: "What Kherson doink?"

Kherson is hurting, but still defiant.

In the past 12 months, Kherson area has lost another 5,000 evacuated, population now down to around 90,000.

Since February 2022, dozens of civilians have been killed and hundreds wounded by Russian bombings & shelling.

Russian attempts to cross the Dnieper into Kherson have been defeated and driven back.

Ukrainian forces continue to operate in areas east of the Dnieper River near Kherson.

Death and destruction brought by Russian forces near Kherson is significant and perhaps even a point of pride among our Russkiy Miroviches like Comrade kiryandil.