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mhdlm

Peak russian diplomacy


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johanngunn

Like bad cop bad cop https://youtu.be/74Od5-Fmf60


Agent_Bers

Look, I'm really sorry about that. I just... I saw how aggressive you were being, and I thought 'Wow, I gotta go even bigger than that since we're doing 'Bad cop, bad cop'.


Esp1erre

Another theory is that he goes above and beyond to prove he is on the "right" side, because before the war he was seen as one of the most liberal men in Putin's inner circle. Well, liberal is a swear word in Putin's world view now, and Medvedev really wants to keep his head the next time his master looks for the one most choppable. But he probably also drinks something fierce to help.


33rus

He was addicted to receiving new iPhones and McDonald’s 🤫


BolleBozeBeer

Not sure where you got this idea from he was more liberal.. Medvedev is the one who wrote Russias current military doctrine back before 2010, basically stating Russia needs to remove NATO, take everything all the way to “lissabon“, which is where that comes from, and be the power to replace NATO In the world. In other words he is batshit insane.


Esp1erre

I got that idea from Russia when I was still living there. He was the guy that everyone knew for chatting to Steve Jobs about new iPhones and dancing to "American boy" on a video that became a meme. And if he did anything significant, people generally thought he was a temporary front for Putin. Today, he doesn't care what people think of him outside of Russia. Your points, while valid, do not come into picture for that assumed reasoning. He cares, however, that his previous image of a simple-minded, but curious and friendly to westerners guy is shattered in Russian media space. Which can explain his current behavior. Anyway, this is all guessing too. I hope I clarified why I consider it a possibility.


Olmaad

Not exactly, he is just lazy alcoholic with much stolen money pretending he is strong and achieved something in life. But truth is - he is nothing and can't even leave country for vacation (i'm joking, he is jobless now), that's why he so angry


CumtissueSevant

Say what you will, but this guy is doing he best to not be thrown out a window.


DuncanIdahoPotatos

Word of the day: [Defenestration](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/defenestration)


LizbetCastle

The monster, in his consternation Demonstrates defenestration And runs and runs and runs and runs away. -Bill Watterson, vocabulary champion of eighties babies


0ooook

From Russian side, defenestration is cultural appropriation of traditional Czech free time activity. And they are doing it wrong, throwing one guy at a time by unknown assassins, how barbaric. They should do it proper civilized way like Czechs did - make a lynch mob, storm kremlin and defenestration everyone there. And have another mob waiting under the windows, finishing survivors with farmer tools. Just be so kind and don’t mix it with religion, Czechs learnt that a hard way.


No_Permission_to_Poo

Came here to say this, it's my new favorite word


jonhanson

I find it bemusing that: 1. The English language has a word, defenestrate, that specifically describes the act of throwing someone out of a window. 1. That word is getting such a ridiculous amount of usage, thanks to the Russians.


Iloveindianajones

I don't know if you are just unaware or joking, but: 1. Most European languages have that word (or at the very least the noun "defenestration") 2. It is connected to a major event in world history (the beginning of the Thirty Years' War), so its existence should not be surprising.


Mistergardenbear

Point #2 is I believe the “third defenestration of Prague.” So the third time The Czech tossed some folks out a window having significant political impact.


claushauler

It's like the first two were just coincidence, third one was the real deal.


LittleCaesar3

Defenestrate me once, fool on me. Defenestrate me twice, fool on you. Defenestrate me thrice, stop visiting Czech high rises.


bimdimbo

Fun fact, the Latin word for window is Fenestre, in French it's Fenetre so Defenestrate is literally 'Of the window'. English language is a funny old thing.


AmargithHuld

Fenestra* ;) And fenêtre, if we going that way


blackadder99

Come to think of it the word disembowel doesn't come up too much in daily usage. Thanks Russia.


scotishstriker

Oh yes, dying if natural cases from falling out a hospital window. It's a shame that is on the rise I hear.


deeseearr

If you fall out of a fifth story hospital window then naturally you're going to die. It's natural causes.


scotishstriker

The "accidental fall" occurs when the poison fails.


deeseearr

That much Polonium would naturally kill anyone. How much more natural can the causes be?


Adrian915

You know you're doing the right thing when you piss off Russian officials.


ELB2001

Step 1: show everyone how much your military sucks Step 2: insult your neighbors


Dazzling-Ad4701

step 3: drink?


Therapistsfor200

This guy is the general Flynn of Russia. We should stop listening to him


Dealan79

The federal government still pays General Flynn's pension and health insurance despite his committing multiple acts of sedition and being unwilling to say under oath that he supports the peaceful democratic transfer of power. That is both mind-boggling and infuriating.


psydkay

This is the same guy that threatened to detonate a nuke in the sea next to the UK. He then went on to explain how it would cause a nuclear tidal wave to envelope the isles, making then completely uninhabitable. Dudes a fucking psycho.


No_Foot

I bet he's been told to act and talk like he is to make putin look calmer and more statesmanlike when compared to him.


Manhuntsareepic

i bet thats the case, putin and other kremlin officials like shoigu and peskov look like gandhi compared to medvedev


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Dealan79

Historical Gandhi, including the extremely creepy behavior around minors.


corvusmohabyn

Hyeap, what was it called again? Good czar, bad boyars or something along those lines.


johanngunn

Bad cop bad cop? https://youtu.be/74Od5-Fmf60


Whisky3

It makes Putin look even more insane for tolerating his presence on the security council. But contemporary Russian leaders just kind of suck at everything, so this is probably exactly what they tried to do.


johanngunn

Well a man in his position talking like that could one day wake up dead with a full cricket set up his rectum for talking like that.


Anxietykek

This.


NeurodiverseTurtle

This, and also, water doesn’t work like that. It would make some coastal villages/towns very wet and annoyed, but it’s not a tsunami. Waves generated by a single blast lose energy very quickly, whereas tsunamis require the vast energies created by earthquakes (something nukes really can’t emulate) Only Tsunamis have the extreme energy needed to travel in-land. Russians are hella dumb…


halee1

You mean this one? https://youtu.be/7SnTkc0r6gk Btw, the TV host in the video (Dmitry Kiselev) lied about the UK having issued a nuclear "threat" to Russia (notice how they didn't actually show the original claim), and the quote about the Western expert allegedly praising the Sarmat missile was actually him [quoting](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9545125/Russia-announces-tests-Putins-invincible-hypersonic-Satan-2-super-nuke.html) Moscow doing so... priceless.


Sea_Honey7133

Legitimate question for those who would have personal experience: what percentage of Russians actually believe the bs from the Kremlin? My guess is the average person doesn’t, but is ruled strictly with fear and intimidation. Then again, Vlad the Defenestrator has been in power long enough to indoctrinate at least one generation already.


redditikonto

The goal isn't to make people believe. The goal is to overwhelm them with bullshit. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehose_of_falsehood A typical Russian will tell you all media is equally false, be it Russian or Western and the truth is somewhere in the middle. But in reality they just choose the narrative they like the most.


helm

Yup. The typical Russian distrusts everyone, disbeliefs the truth no matter how calmly you lay it out, and knows what to say to not get into trouble. They also rather go to the front and freeze and die rather than take responsibility for anything that's going on.


Sea_Honey7133

I have worked with many individuals of Russian or from land that was occupied by the Soviet Union. My experience with them has taught me you are correct. When we would discuss the differences between the West and Russia, one of the first things they said was that you NEVER let people know what you are thinking because you never know who to trust and your life or at least your freedom were at stake. The experience of being around not only Russians but anyone who comes from an oppressed nation taught me that the most valuable asset a nation has is for the ability of its people to think for themselves, as nature intended.


halee1

Opposition media suggests hardcore supporters of the war are at most 30-40% of the Russian population (if support was measured by overall loudness, it'd be like 60-70%), and a few other dozens of percentage points do so opportunistically, without much confidence, or out of fear. Those firmly opposed to the war are probably 15-20%. That's the short answer.


Buroda

That is what shocks me about people in the West who want to negotiate and deal with Russia. Russia is vocal about wanting you dead, are you sure you want to meet it half way?


Sea_Honey7133

How much more shocking that the Republicans have joined forces with a nation that wants America burnt to the ground.


Buroda

That does boggle the mind.


TjW0569

Not surprising at all that people would cooperate to achieve common goals.


TinyTinyDwarfs

Not at all weird. Conservatives want the United States to devolve into a fascistic country like Russia. Where there is a facade of democracy that always results in the ruling party in power. ​ Conservatives jerk off to authoritarian figures, they love people of authority to tell them what to think and do. This is why you can see them say: "I'd rather be a Russian than a democrat" because to them Democrats or anyone not in their in-group are degenerate. ​ In short. The Republican party is the Russian party. They are traitors.


SD99FRC

It's wild to think that it was under Medvedev that the most "progress" was achieved in Western/Russian relations. That is, until Putin yanked back the leash and ran for President again. Medvedev must be scared for his life, because he basically became a lapdog after that.


greenglasstree

It's because Medvedev's real personality is calm and sane. If there was no Putin and there was only dictator Medvedev he would not have started a full scale war against Ukraine. He'd try to only take donetsk and luhansk and Western nations would have let him do it. Now he's saying crazy things because he has to in order to avoid being thrown out of a window, and because Putin orders him to act crazy so that Putin looks relatively sane in comparison.


bro_please

Medvedev just says the lines Putin gives him. It's a choreography.


robreddity

He's an actor playing a role.


Thatsidechara_ter

And also a fucking idiot if he thinks that's how nukes on water work. Has he ever seen the Bikini atoll footage?


lollypatrolly

If it's any consolation what he's proposing isn't a physical possibility, even if he detonated every single nuke in Russia's inventory off the coast of the UK it wouldn't cause a particularly destructive wave.


Dt2_0

Dude must not understand physics. Water blocks radiation particles released in an initial blast, and no nuke is going to leave enough nuclear material behind to cause the entire British Isles to become uninhabitable. The entire concept of the Nuclear Tsunami is just made to scare people who don't look at it critically for a few moments.


streetad

He's a professional clown. A court jester. His job is to sit in the Duma and be a figure of ridicule, to make 'democracy' look ridiculous, and to make Putin look reasonable and stable by comparison.


Rascar615

It’s jarring how different this guy has been talking since this whole conflict kicked off because when he was in office he was such a different guy


organik_productions

He was Putin's puppet back then too, so I suppose it was all a part of the plan.


jaqueass

Now he just sounds like a meth addict every time he talks.


Chudsaviet

He drinks a lot.


2cats2hats

Probably because he doesn't want to accidentally fall out of a window...


Attila_the_Hunk

You'd think that at some point they would all come together and realize it's easier to just throw Putin out a window first.


jellyfish_bitchslap

He works as an Overton Window, so Putin looks like a sane leader even during this war.


a1579

Russian politics is like a reality show now, or maybe a bit like WWE wrestling. You get a script and say whatever fits the agenda.


psychrolute

It's like a country led by Homelander/Vought (The Boys), but without the superpowers... Or the looks!


Unfair-Mix9683

Just a bunch of thugs with nukes...


GuyTheTerrible

Their special move is called China’s Final Warning


Ainu83

Medvedev's just a spineless bootlicker. He's doing this so that Putin sounds sane in comparison.


CountAlex

You'd need to know Russian's perspective on this guy. Since Zhirinovsky died (that guy was basically Russia's court jester who would spew any sort of bullshit to check population's reaction), Medvedev took his place in a state-wide propaganda shitposting.


fight_the_power2022

He is rumored to be an alcoholic that spends each week drinking heavily, then when he gets somewhat sober, comes out and makes a statement like this, then back to drinking. This idiot has no value and is just doing his weekly content for Putin.


theold777

If this is his sober statements, I don't want to read the boozed up ones...


Enryu285002

I have to concur. Perhaps he doesn't want to antagonise Putin lest he be thrown out the window.


Mahat

it's not the window you have to fear, it's the bullets you fall on while tumbling down the polonium staircase you gotta really watch out for.


WillyLongbarrel

Your comment really puts it into perspective how much better Putin has it than his cronies. When he tumbles down the stairs, all he falls on is shit.


andrwww

It’s not the fall that kills you, it’s the sudden stop


Cook_0612

He was *playing* a different guy, yea.


boomership

His presidential contender who was a nutcase, died last year. So naturally someone had to replace his role. Or maybe they still use lead pipes.


thebestnames

All part of a role I think. Today his role is to be an extremist so Putin appears "sane and moderate" and appeal to as many Russians as possible.


Nonsense_Producer

He's the jester.


msemen_DZ

Was thinking the same thing. Mask off I guess.


kawag

It’s just a different mask.


Huge_Ad_8767

I agree , he even invited Deep Purple to come and play in Moscow , apparently he is a big fan .


Arronax50

All the Russian nationalists like him go on holidays in the French Riviera, listen to British bands, drive Audis, etc. As the writer Iegor Gran said, Zaldastanov, the biker friend of Putin, looks like he's doing a cheap Hell's Angels cosplay. It indicates that these Russian nationalists are stupid af, not that they're closet liberals.


Arronax50

All the Russian nationalists like him go on holidays in the French Riviera, listen to British bands, drive Audis, etc. As the writer Iegor Gran said, Zaldastanov, the biker friend of Putin, looks like he's doing a cheap Hell's Angels cosplay. It indicates that these Russian nationalists are stupid af, not that they're closet liberals.


Consistent_Dog_6866

The Japanese PM could always recommend Medvedv fall out a window.


hop208

I bet Russia would act shocked and appalled at that response. Only *they* get to make statements like that.


Interesting-Clerk-91

An HBO mini series on Putin could be the next "The Sopranos". Everybody is getting wacked. You just need a likable protagonist that exists in the chaos.


nocdmb

Or the next Chernobyl. Everybody lies and incompetent and the few people who understand what is happening are in a constant threath from the powers.


Interesting-Clerk-91

I'd watch that also.


hieronymusanonymous

I thought that self-disembowelment was for ***LOSERS*** for their shame and disgrace at defeat, you know, losers like ***Vladimir Putin***.


notreal088

Or the Russian in general after there loss to Japan in the Russo-Japanese war.


porncrank

Zelenskyy (to Putin): You know, in certain older civilized cultures, when men failed as entirely as you have, they would throw themselves on their swords.


_Face

Sepuku


loneranger07

Medvedyev should go to Ukraine with a gun that jams and only two mags of ammo and no helmet and not enough socks and get killed and see how fun that is


RedStar9117

If you're the loudest cheerleader for Putin it's less likley you will get windowed


HobGoblin2

>windowed That's a good one.


frostbaka

Defenstrated is a correct one.


wittyandinsightful

Defenestrated is even more correct.


timetravel_inc

It is correctest!


7H3_D15C1PL3

Wouldn't want to commit windocide


RebelWithoutAClue

I hope they play the Windows closing sound just before you get pushed out.


NoStressAccount

Since stereotypes are apparently fair game, the Japanese PM should retort that Medvedev should shoot himself twice in the back of the head.


Jorgen_Pakieto

Medvedev already did that to Russia the minute he decided to become another dog for Putin


amountainofatoms

ooOoOoo, bad guy big mouth, ooOoOoo 🤣


duffman274

He just doesn’t want to shoot himself in the back, bludgeon himself and then throw himself out of a window.


OkRoad6218

Oh don’t worry it’ll happen soon enough


Winterspawn1

Single-digit number IQ man opens mouth again


ceoofsex300

Actually his IQ is in the negatives


IngloBlasto

Isn't this the guy our Lord Saviour Elon retweeted?


69kKarmadownthedrain

the very same


cock_babtridge

Genuinely surprised he was able to put a complex sentence like that together, ‘disembowel’ is a big word for a guy like him.


ostiki

I tried to look up Russian sources to find out what exactly did he say, and, interestingly, all the ones I checked, omit that part altogether. One says: "he described a method this should be done", another says "he can absolve himself by doing it (without specifying what exactly) right in the parliament". Most likely, though, he just said "perform harakiri", which is a very common and well-known expression in Russia.


yama1291

We will all remember this asshole when he eventually falls from a balcony.


Marchello_E

who?


LamentingTitan

Go jump out a window you hasbin


Icanscrewmyhaton

What a racist, schoolyard taunt. I guess some Russians will say anything to avoid defenestration. But what's the Japanese PM's turnabout taunt, hmmm? What's more ethnically Russian than dying in droves....drove-dying with a samovar....filled with dioxin-laden kool-aid....at a tractor factory in a gulag?


baddfingerz1968

Every time I read about this dude he gets more blood chilling...true intrinsic evil.


Redm1st

Chilling? He’s just playing court jester after Zhirik passed away


ceoofsex300

He’s just trying to not fall out of a window


throwaway_nrTWOOO

When this guy dies the global cunt index will see a significant. plummet


wscottwatson

So we see the Japanese PM is doing something right too!


ilovecatsandcafe

It’s be nice if we got the Japanese foreign minister tell Medvedev “come to Tokyo and say that to our faces if u got balls, pussy”


tysoberta

I don’t understand how this guy can manage to speak at all with Putin’s dick so far down his throat.


LeeroyDagnasty

Ah I see they’re taking the Chinese route to diplomacy, bold move.


kraenk12

I’d be careful to anger the Japanese. Disrespect isn’t valued very high.


filutch

Lmao, does Russia want a rematch from their humiliating defeat a century ago ?


theawesomedanish

Spoken like a true terrorist.


druu222

Breaking news: UN orders international bomber fleet to bombard Moscow with Russian translation versions of Dale Carnagie's 'How to Win Friends and Influence People'.


LaCiel_W

LMAO looks who's talking? the damn puppet of the century, "ex-president" of Russia, Putin's personal little bitch.


FutureImminent

So I guess Russia, especially Medvedev, doesn't think it ever needs to engage with other countries again. The amount of derogatory insults they've been slinging at world leaders/politicians is insane. I'm fine with it though as that shitty, fucked up country needs to be isolated for the sake of their neighbours if nothing else. There's nothing about them that makes them worth saving.


Nerevarine91

They’re the kid at school who constantly talks shit and then weeps that nobody likes them


1bsdjunkie

Then he will no longer give a shit? 💩


FRBls

This seems like something that’s gonna go over great with the Japanese /s


brezhnervous

Yeah, this is really likely to stop them talking about possibly acquiring nuclear weapons lol


SnooMaps1910

Says the man who history will mark as one of Putin's most subservient lapdogs.


anti79

And for some reason Western politicians still think that you can reason with Russia, or come to some kind of agreement.


thundergun661

The only one who should be committing seppuku is Putin after his disgrace in Ukraine


bannacct56

Seems like the Russian strategy has been reduced to wishfull thinking


krukson

He's such a punchable face. I hope he gets Gaddafi'd with Putin and the rest of those fuckers soon.


chunkerton_chunksley

Isnt that what the Russian military is doing in Ukraine?


Snidrogen

Japanese PM says Medvedev should fall out a window.


Alimbiquated

To which the Japanese might reply that Medvedev is clearly already working on the traditional Russian form of suicide -- drinking himself to death.


I_Am_Graydon

Why do we keep giving this turd our attention? [This article explains him and his childish antics well.](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/01/dmitry-medvedev-journey-liberal-anti-west-hawk-russia)


Mdk_251

I suggest Mr. Medvedev himself should avoid windows and tall buildings, lest he suffer a "fall-out-of-window" accident, so prevalent among his colleagues.


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We say the same about you and Putin daily.


gump82

Well, Russia, that was a particularly vile form of disrespect! I gotta say good job on insulting the only nation that has never been conquered by anyone. Not China not Mongolia not even you well us, but that’s it. Yeah antagonize them some more make the entire world hate you.


goofgoon

I don’t like this man, he seems not very nice.


Adventurous_Aerie_79

Looks like Medvedev at least read something about honor and dignity, but still doesnt understand it completely.


Kastrenzo

If we're sticking to racist caricatures, then Russian ex-President should drink a bottle of vodka , club his wife, assuming he still has one. and spin a revolver cylinder, and put the barrel in his mouth and pull the trigger.


nosatall

Dickhead


redddcrow

too much vodka


hayden_evans

Why anyone listens to Russians at all is beyond me at this point.


r0ndr4s

If someone decides to kill Putin, please take this psycho with him. Shot him several times in the head just in case he's some sort of vampire.


penguished

Maybe the Russians can show him how. They seem pretty good at self-injury.


PrinceOFnova

Medvedev should kill himself


TheOddFather5

Wtf is wrong with the Russians? Something is definitely going on in their society and it’s not good whatsoever.


Syncopationforever

Makes me wonder What kind of prog rock is Medvedev listening to, while writing up these crazy tweets (Medvedev is a big prog rock fan)


nibul82

Says, slurs… same thing


Naive_Bluebird9348

He's giving the advice to the wrong man.


BreakfastNo7687

Wow he sounds like a stable genus lol


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Russia = shit


Narrator-to-gods

Careful pal. We’ve all seen enough Hollywood to know, when you’re the asshole bad guy, and you say things like that, the final scene is always irony.


59footer

Man needs to take his own advice.


firephoxx

Ah, the nuances of diplomacy.


DeloresBlasingameEsq

“Vladdy do you think I’m tough yet?”


megaplex00

Needless to say, when Medvedev "falls" out of a window in the next few years I'll get a good chuckle.


eskieski

“shameful subservience… disembowel himself”.. tell your friend in Bularus,oh you can add your name too,so we don’t have to hear your weekly”whining little bitch”


happyColoradoDave

You’re drunk. Go home.


Temporary-Purpose431

Why should he when Putin already *voided* his *bowels* while falling down a set of stairs?


Wraywong

Go play some of that Russian Roulette...


spark356

Here we go, ridiculous statement of the day from this idiot.


Anezay

Big talk from a guy who will be doing some very enthusiastic window shopping as soon as he disagrees with Putin's favorite BTS member or whatever.


hiricinee

How oddly culturally sensitive of him.


braintamale76

Hey Russia you are losing one war try not to pick a second one.


Sir-Viette

“Dear Sir and/or Madam, Thank you for you kind suggestion that I disembowel myself. However, it appears my calendar is quite full at the moment, so I am unable to help with your request at this time. As an alternative, my most enthusiastic suggestion is that you go and fuck yourself. Yours Sincerely, Fumio Kishida Japanese Prime Minister”


DividedState

Only response would be to quit the vodka.


Silas_Ivan

*Japanese PM plays Uno Reverse Card*


Traditional_Many7988

Only empty threats from this coward


Can_of_Ubik

Medvedev is basically a court jester these days.


CampLiving

I’m starting to think these Russian higher ups might actually be jerks.


cassydd

Medvedev sees his friends and allies dropping like fly's so he'll clearly spout any bollocks he feels will buy him another day of life. I could almost pity him if he weren't where his is because of his weakness of character.


USArmyAirborne

Medvedev should play Russian Roulette with all chambers loaded.


coreywindom

He is worse than Putin


tictac205

Medvedev hasn’t had a heart attack while falling out a window. He’s no dummy.


labadee

No, you.


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He should hold himself to the standards he hold for others


woodstock007

Medvedev should go to the Frontline or visit a skyscraper.


femboywanabe

What is wrong with Russians these days that their people say the most violent stuff


Future-Agent

The term is either *Seppuku* or *Harakiri*. I don't remember which. Plus, would it be an honorable suicide? Can't commit suicide willy-nilly in Japan. They have standards, you know.


meatballlover1969

Top notch diplomacy right here this guy


escabean

In Russia, you don’t fall from balcony. Balcony falls from you.


jurek911

ruZZians will be hated for generations to come… and they’ll only have themselves to blame. Can’t wait to hear them cry about it.


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He should take his own advice


Traditional_Art_7304

Needs help falling out of a window….