"We are going to turn Europeans' lives into nightmares"
The reaction to U.S. sanctions against Russia did not take long to materialize. As Putin's No. 5 Dmitri Medvedev faces Kiev's offensives, the latter sees no other option but to openly threaten Europe.
Medvedev published a chilling but also rather strange text on Telegram:
"We must try every day to inflict maximum damage on the countries that have imposed these restrictions on us Russia and all our citizens. Damage to everything that can be damaged. Damage to their economies, their institutions and their leaders. To the well-being of their citizens. Their confidence in the future. To do this, we must continue to look for critical weaknesses in their economies and hit them in every area."
"Doing damage everywhere, crippling the work of their businesses and government agencies. Literally destroying their energy, industry, transportation, banking and social services. Raising fears of the imminent collapse of the entire infrastructure of European countries."
"Are they afraid of anarchy and the explosion of crime in the big cities? We must help them disorganize their municipal governments!"
"Are they afraid of social explosions? Let's get them organized! We must throw all their most sinister nightmares into their media, use all their terrible phantom pains. Let's spare their psyche no longer! Let them tremble in their cozy homes, let them stir under the covers."
"They whine about our use of 'fake news'? Let us turn their lives into a permanent pointless nightmare, in which they will be unable to distinguish wild fiction from everyday realities, hellish evil from the routine of life."
The account of a man with severe mental problems...?
(SR and FM for Tagtik/Source: Telegram/Photo: Presidential press and information office via Wikicommons under license Creative Commons CC BY 4.0.)
