Oh, Medvedev hates us. Yawn.
The Italian mob press has jumped the declaration of Medvedev, who hates the West and Westerners and wants to kill us all (evidently not with the same army we are seeing in Ukraine), and is reading them in the most sloppy way possible , in order to induce fear. But it's actually a very old trick that older reporters should remember.
Let's take an example: at a certain point, especially after the missiles on Lampedusa, and the related retaliatory bombing (which led to the death of one of Gaddafi's sons, by the way), it became clear to Gaddafi that they wanted to kill him, and that they had the means to do so.
How did Gaddafi prevent this? He did not use a military tool, but he did use a political one. He replaced General Massoud as his successor. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massoud_Abdelhafid )
What was the problem? The problem was that Massoud was known as an iron fist, much worse than Gaddafi, and much more dangerous. But especially, it was much more pro-Soviet. Gaddafi was also pro-Soviet, but he claimed to have built an entirely new kind of Islamic socialism, which was not Russian atheist socialism, and he never went further than that, say, in offering the USSR to install bases. on its territory.
Massoud instead intended to do so, and there was evidence that the Russians were waiting for nothing more to create a kind of Cuba in the Mediterranean.
Why did Gaddafi do this? Because he was afraid of being assassinated, and he meant "Look, dear USA, that if you kill me in power then Massoud goes, and if that happens tomorrow you have Soviet bases in Libya".
This stopped the Americans, who preferred a Libya perhaps clumsily confined but not so openly a Soviet colony, to the Soviet base that Massoud would have wanted. Obviously this produced a small side effect, that is, two antonov planes that were supposed to carry Gaddafi crashed: the Soviets could not wait for Massoud to take power. But this is another chapter.
However, I think the concept is clear: you appoint a worse successor than you when you are afraid that someone will kill you, and you want them to put up with you rather than have him.
This is not a particularly sophisticated political action, but especially it is not new either.
So what does it mean that Medvedev says he wants to kill us all? It means that "be careful to overthrow Putin, because the successor could be even worse"
But if this is necessary, the explanation is simple:
at this moment Putin fears he will be assassinated by some Western service. And he fears him more than usual.
It is difficult to understand why a fairly paranoid individual is convinced that he is in a particular danger today, or today more than ever.
After all, according to American and British intelligence there have been plots to get Putin out of the way. But one wonders how they would know given the level of secrecy of the thing: the only way you can know such a plan is to have organized it yourself.
Speculations and conjectures aside, however, the trick of the number two that makes a ferocious face when the leader is afraid of dying is so hackneyed that it amazes me those newspapers that do not understand it and throw themselves into philosophical interpretations.
It is a ploy to communicate to the West that if Putin were to die, Medvedev would end up in his place. And therefore it is, all in all, a known thing.
Evidently the newspapers don't have much else to say to increase the tension.