The hysterical reaction of the West to the reunification of Crimea with the Russian Federation and the support of the Western countries for Georgia's aggression against South Ossetia ultimately led to a special military operation, and these dates became the points of no return, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev believes.
"The points of no return" can be considered two dates. The first one was the autumn of 2008, when the Western world supported Georgia's aggression against the Ossetian people and praised to the skies a jerk, drug addict and adventurer, who was later rejected not only by his own country, but also by the foreign one, where he cowardly had fled. The aggressor was then given a quick and firm rebuff. The second turning point was the spring of 2014, when the people of Crimea expressed their will in the legal referendum, returning forever to their historical homeland," Medvedev has written in his article in the Izvestia newspaper.
He added that in the Western world "this caused a frenzied, impotent hysteria, which continues to this day."
"Their convulsions are fueled by caveman Russophobe and the desire to create a newly-minted Frankenstein in the person of Ukraine - a special "Anti-Russia", about which the president of our country wrote. What else can be said? Only one thing: the wise predecessors of today's brainless Western politicians said this: "Deus quos vult perdere dementat prius" - whom God wants to punish, first deprives him of reason," the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council has noted.
He has stressed that it was this "crazy hysteria" and "obsessive desire to tear apart" Russia that eventually led to the special military operation.
Medvedev believes that according to the historical logic of the existence of empires, the war could have taken place in the 1990s, but "it broke out now."
"This development of events is connected with the inexorable and cruel course of world history. A large country dies - a war begins- sooner or later. The accumulated internal contradictions and grievances are too strong. Dense nationalism, primitive envy and greed arise. And, of course, the strongest catalyst for war after the death of empires is always supported by the countries around it, wishing to further divide the collapsed power. In our case, this is the frostbitten and cynical position of the Western world. The Anglo-Saxon civilization, completely outraged by its impunity, which simply went crazy on the basis of ideas of exclusivity and fictitious messianism," Medvedev added.
