{"id":312323,"date":"2025-07-19T05:02:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T05:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=312323"},"modified":"2025-07-20T07:46:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T07:46:46","slug":"russia-must-be-ready-to-strike-the-west-if-it-escalates-the-war-in-ukraine-kremlin-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=312323","title":{"rendered":"Russia must be ready to strike the West if it escalates the war in Ukraine, Kremlin says"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Ronny Reyes \u2013 New York Post July 17, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The chairman of Russia\u2019s Security Council called on Moscow to be ready to strike the West if it escalates the war in Ukraine \u2014 days after President Trump vowed to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/14\/world-news\/trump-vows-billions-of-dollars-in-weapons-for-ukraine-100-tariffs-on-russia-if-no-peace-in-50-days\/\">ramp up weapon shipments<\/a> to Kyiv if a cease-fire isn\u2019t reached soon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/16\/world-news\/moscow-slams-trumps-support-of-ukraine-tariff-warning-to-russia-as-a-theatrical-ultimatum\/\">Dmitry Medvedev<\/a>, Russia\u2019s former president and top ally of Vladimir Putin, warned that Russia would be ready to respond \u201cin full\u201d should the West get further involved in the conflict that has raged for more than three years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to act accordingly. To respond in full. And if necessary, launch preemptive strikes,\u201d Medvedev told the state-owned TASS outlet as he claimed that many in the West have \u201ctreachery in their blood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The chairman of Russia\u2019s Security Council called on Moscow to be ready to strike the West if it escalates the war in Ukraine \u2014 days after President Trump vowed to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/14\/world-news\/trump-vows-billions-of-dollars-in-weapons-for-ukraine-100-tariffs-on-russia-if-no-peace-in-50-days\/\">ramp up weapon shipments<\/a> to Kyiv if a cease-fire isn\u2019t reached soon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/16\/world-news\/moscow-slams-trumps-support-of-ukraine-tariff-warning-to-russia-as-a-theatrical-ultimatum\/\">Dmitry Medvedev<\/a>, Russia\u2019s former president and top ally of Vladimir Putin, warned that Russia would be ready to respond \u201cin full\u201d should the West get further involved in the conflict that has raged for more than three years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to act accordingly. To respond in full. And if necessary, launch preemptive strikes,\u201d Medvedev told the state-owned TASS outlet as he claimed that many in the West have \u201ctreachery in their blood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President Trump called for harsh sanctions on Moscow and more arms for Ukraine if peace isn\u2019t reached in 50 days.<\/p>\n<p>As he called for Russia to be prepared for war with the West, he also dismissed fears from NATO nations in eastern Europe who worry that they\u2019ll be next on the chopping block should Moscow complete its goal of conquering Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The Putin ally slammed the fears \u2014 which has prompted countries <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/11\/18\/world-news\/sweden-finland-warns-residents-to-be-ready-for-war\/\">like Sweden and Finland<\/a> to bolster their armies \u2014 as nothing more than \u201ccomplete nonsense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/17\/world-news\/russia-must-be-ready-to-strike-the-west-if-it-escalates-the-war-in-ukraine-kremlin-says\/\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chairman of Russia\u2019s Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev is prone to making inflammatory statements. Nonetheless, the fact that he is saying such things means that Putin wants Westerners to grasp that a Russian strike into Western Europe is entirely possible    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":307801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=312323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312324,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312323\/revisions\/312324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/307801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}