The US exceptionalist approach will once become its undoing, ex-Russian president Dmitry Medvedev says
The Ukrainian conflict could have been avoided entirely if the US had shown enough “wisdom” and “flexibility” to strike a comprehensive security deal with Russia, former Russian President and current deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council Dmitry Medvedev has said.
The ex-president made the remarks in an exclusive interview with RT, which largely revolved around the situation in Georgia and the outcome of its recent general election. The polls resulted in a defeat of pro-Western opposition parties, with the ruling Georgian Dream party greatly reinforcing its position.
The outcome of the vote was “quite predictable” and has shown “pragmatism” of the Georgian people, Medvedev, who led Russia during a brief armed conflict with the ex-Soviet state back in 2008, said, rejecting claims that the polls were somehow influenced by…