Thread by @mattia_n

The Russian elite appears to like penning abusive essays about Ukraine. After Putin, Former Russian president Medvedev published his own hit piece. While significantly shorter than Putin’s, this latest text is arguably even more poisonous, @Biz_Ukraine_Mag
atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainea…

"In one borderline antisemitic passage, Medvedev declared, “the current president of this exhausted country is a person of certain ethnic roots,” before going on to compare Zelenskyy to German Jews forced to collaborate with the Nazi regime."

Medvedev goes at length to rant about Ukraine’s “weak and dependent” leadership. Just like Putin, Medvedev argues that Ukraine was currently under the “direct foreign control” of “American patrons” before concluding, “It makes no sense for us to deal with vassals.”

That's utterly bizarre! If it indeed is the strategy of the Kremlin not to engage with the present Ukrainian president and wait until “sane leaders” came to power in Ukraine, then the Kremlin can wait for a very long time...