Posted on 07/29/2025 6:06:08 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Russia is not Iran. Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev directed this reminder to President Donald Trump on Monday in a social media post.
Medvedev, who now serves as deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, issued what appears to be a not-so-veiled threat in response to Trump’s recent announcement that he has changed his mind about how long he’ll give Russia to strike a peace deal with Ukraine before leveling secondary sanctions against the Kremlin.
On Monday, Trump reduced the previous 50-day deadline to “10 or 12” days, prompting Medvedev’s response. “Each new ultimatum is a threat and a step towards war,” the Russian said in an X post, adding that he was referring to a war “Not between Russia and Ukraine, but with his own country. Don’t go down the Sleepy Joe road!”
The reference to “Sleepy Joe road” was an attempt to remind Trump that it was he who publicly warned when the Joe Biden administration was in power that Biden’s interventionist Ukraine-Russia policy could result in World War III.
Also on Monday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov compared the West to a childhood bully. He said during a forum that “when you’re a kid messing around with other boys in the yard, sometimes a big kid, three or four years older, shows up and starts chasing the little ones. That’s roughly what the West is doing to everyone else right now.” Some may take issue with that analogy and point out that it was bigger Russia that invaded smaller Ukraine.
The Ultimatum
Trump presented the 50-day ultimatum in mid-July, after he concluded that his conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin were “meaningless.” He said during an Oval Office meeting with North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary General Mark Rutte that the Kremlin...
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Medvedev seems to routinely take a hard anti-US line.
The Soviets are like Sean Hannity on this topic.
Blah blah blah.
These clowns can’t conquer a country 1/10th their size that’s right next to them.
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Russia is a paper tiger they have zero economic leverage in this entire ordeal. The US could make their life far more miserable then anything Russia could do to the US and that includes hours of Tucker Carlson telling everyone how amazing Russia is
Good analogy.
Medvedev is a yapping moron.
Russia would attack New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Los Angeles.
It’s a risk I’m willing to take
Medvedev is still missing Barky’s subservient posture.
Me too. So little downside.
Trump offered Russia plenty of chances for peace.
Time to drone hit this beotch, send a lesson. Putin is next.
Bkmk
He’s the guy that says nasty stuff. That’s his job.
Traditionally most countries have a lower ranking official to talk tough.
Do Iran on Russia wow has Reverend Jim Jones come back to dispense the Kool Aid tonight?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2vosQ4sM1Y&list=PLLWQyEN3YRo41QwWb7e8J5YjBX80WmGtG
Bessent:
Last month, the White House announced its maximum pressure campaign on Iran designed to collapse its already buckling economy. The Iranian economy is in disarray; 35% official inflation, has a currency that has depreciated 60% in the last 12 months, and an ongoing energy crisis. I know a few things about currency devaluations, and if I were an Iranian, I would get all of my money out of the Rial now.
This precarious state exists before our Maximum Pressure campaign, designed to collapse Iranian oil exports from the current 1.5-1.6, million barrels per day, back to the trickle they were when President Trump left office.
Iran has developed a complex shadow network of financial facilitators and black-market oil shippers via a ghost fleet to sell oil, petrochemical and other commodities to finance its exports and generate hard currency.
As such, we have elevated a sanctions campaign against this export infrastructure, targeting all stages of Iran’s oil supply chain. We have coupled this with vigorous government engagement and private sector outreach.
We will close off Iran’s access to the international financial system by targeting regional parties that facilitate the transfer of its revenues. Treasury is prepared to engage in frank discussions with these countries. We are going to shut down Iran’s oil sector and drone manufacturing capabilities.
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0045
March 6, 2025
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Dear Mr.. Medvedev,
I thank you for your concern.
It is sad that we Americans, now free of Ol Dyaduxhka Biden,,do not have the opportunity to deal with ssomeone and enamoured with their self-glory, above the gathered glory of their country.jbi
This guy is the police chief gambling at Rick’s casino...
There is WAR going on here!!!!
I’m shocked, shocked I tell you...
How many deaths in a US/NATO v. Russia conflict would be acceptable before Putin calls for a ceasefire?
1 mill, 5 mill, 10 mill, 50 mill, 100 mill?
Would he keep fighting and allow Russians to become an endangered species?
What’s his pain threshold?
“Would he keep fighting and allow Russians to become an endangered species?”
The Russian oligarchs won’t let him. They don’t want their gravy train to end.
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