Former Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, one of Vladimir Putin’s closest aides, has doubled down on his threats to the West in his latest remarks this weekend. Medvedev said any interference in his nation’s affairs would culminate in a “chess game with death”. He further added that the “dirty dreams of perverted Anglo-Saxons” were fueling efforts to “paralyze” his war-hungry country. In a post on his Telegram channel, Medvedev said: “(The fall of Russia) are the dreams filthy Anglo-Saxon perverts, who go to sleep with a secret thought about breaking up our state, thinking how to tear us apart, cut us into little pieces.” “Such attempts are very dangerous and should not be underestimated. Such dreamers ignore a simple axiom: a forced disintegration of a nuclear power is always a game of chess with death, in which it is known precisely when check and mate arrives: the end of the world for humanity,” threatened the former president. As if that were not enough, Medvedev recalled in his statements on his Telegram channel that Russia’s nuclear arsenals are “the best guarantee to safeguard Great Russia.” Medvedev was president of the Russian Federation from 2008 to 2012 and Russian Prime Minister from 2012 to 2020. On January 15, 2020, he resigned from his position and became the vice president of the country’s Security Council.