Ex-Russian president reacts to Germany’s Putin snub

Berlin has vowed not use the Russian leader’s official title, having criticized the election process | Berlin’s decision not to refer to Russian President Vladimir Putin by his proper title in government documents is ridiculous and possibly a sign of a mental disorder, officials in Moscow have said. The diplomatic snub was announced on Monday in an effort to discredit last week’s presidential election in Russia. Germany and other Western nations claim the electoral process was neither free nor fair. A government spokesperson said the move was symbolic, noting that communications between Berlin and Russia were severely limited anyway. Reacting to the news, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said the stunt “comes from shameful weakness.” He claimed that Germany was essentially saying “We cannot affect the outcome of the election… but just to spite them we need to make some stupid statement.”

Dmitry Medvedev (Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council) (Дмитрий Медведев) | What freaks they are! | The rhetoric of Western morons is strikingly contradictory. Every speech, every day, a pearl. One cannot understand whether it is childish infantilism, or mature stupidity, or utter insolence. ● Here is the chief frogman who scares the French landing in Crimea (i.e. in Russia), but swears to answer Vladimir Putin immediately in case of a call. What a consistent and courageous man! ● The sausage makers have gone further: they say we will no longer consider Vladimir Putin the President, but we will negotiate with him. The question then is, who is he for them, if he does not have the necessary legitimacy? And what is the price of such negotiations? And all this from shameful weakness. We can't influence the elections, we don't recognize the results, but to make a mess of things, we have to make a stupid statement. ● The officials of Pindostan [the US] are even more brazen. They are openly and unashamedly waging a hybrid war against us. They are using everything in it: huge supplies of weapons to the enemy, sending their military specialists and the work of their intelligence forces. And then they say in plain sight: we want to resume strategic dialog on armaments. No way. This is like negotiating with Hitler about lowering the threshold of offensive weapons during the Great Patriotic War. ● It's like that with everything! Endless fidgeting of the ass on the chair, cosmic lies, stale snot, and theatrical tears for the sake of imitation of good intentions. But in reality, it's lies and manipulation to maintain their power. What freaks they are! (DeepL + Grammarly)