NATO Secretary-General Stoltenberg said that Russia could not be allowed to win the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Medvedev responded domineeringly, and Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán said that the West was at war with him and expressed deep concerns about the future.
In his speech on August 4, Stoltenberg said that the Russian-Ukrainian conflict "is the most dangerous situation in Europe since World War II" and that NATO and its member states will continue to assist Ukraine for a long time to prevent Russia's victory. In response to nato's public statement, Medvedev, vice chairman of the Russian Federal Security Council, said that Stoltenberg's memory is very poor, he has forgotten who won in World War II, and at the same time, he also said that history will repeat itself. It is estimated that Stoltenberg heard this domineering response from the Russian side, and it is difficult to refute it. In any case, what Medvedev said is basically the truth, that the results of the Second World War of the last century were established, when the Soviet Union was undoubtedly the victorious power. In the current Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the balance of forces and the objective situation on the battlefield have fully demonstrated that Russia is in absolute superiority, so Medvedev's claim that history will repeat itself and that victory belongs to Russia is not wrong at all.
We can see that in the more than 5 months since the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the West has done its best to use all the tricks it can think of to deal with Russia. As far as the current situation is concerned, it can only be described by the word "tragic". First of all, the Ukrainian army failed to make good use of Western assistance and exert the power of these advanced weapons and equipment on the battlefield. According to the latest news, recently, the United States provided Ukraine with 4 more Haimas guns, 580 cruise missiles, 36,000 large-caliber artillery shells, thousands of individual missiles and other equipment assistance, other NATO countries have a "stripped out" crazy delivery of weapons to the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield, even the most inactive germany in the early aid to Ukraine has also delivered heavyweight weapons and equipment such as rockets and Leopard tanks to the Ukrainian army. With such heavy military assistance, Ukraine recently claimed to gather 150,000 troops in the next 3 weeks to formally launch a counteroffensive against the Russian army. The Ukrainian government's words are very good, but combined with the military performance of the Ukrainian army before, such a declaration is basically equivalent to harsh words, and it is often difficult to achieve the expected purpose, as to whether the Ukrainian side's promise this time can finally be fulfilled, it is another matter.
Second, the Western sanctions against Russia are weak, and the effect of sanctions has been greatly reduced by Russia's countermeasures. Today, we can say that the United States is the planner of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, nato countries are direct participants, and the European Union has played a major role in sanctioning Russia. Under the Western "encirclement and blocking" sanctions, Russia has indeed encountered great difficulties, but with the introduction of Russian countermeasures, the anti-phagocytic effect of European sanctions has gradually become prominent, and at present, there is a widespread energy crisis in Western countries, and the financial crisis is expected to be imminent, not only that, including the United States and the United Kingdom and other major countries have encountered serious inflation, the European Central Bank is more than a decade later, rarely announced interest rate hikes. A series of evil consequences are gradually hitting the West, and the EU's previous clamor to impose a seventh round of sanctions on Russia has not worked.
Not only that, but within the Western countries, there have been rational people who have found that the serious crisis has become closer and closer to the West. On August 4, Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán, who attended the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas, united states, gave a speech questioning the future of the West. He said the West was at war with itself and its future was debatable. Since the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, anti-Russian sentiment in the West has soared to the point of "fanaticism", and the Hungarian prime minister, who was successfully re-elected in May this year, is a rare sober person. Back in May, Orbán said the West needed to deal with the looming recession, the threat of an energy crisis and pandemic, as well as "a resurgence of self-destruction in the Western world."
In fact, in the context of the continuous raging of the epidemic and the conflict between Russia and Ukraine provoking regional tensions, many European countries have lost their rational judgment and chosen to follow the United States in the collective anti-Russian, hoping to pass on domestic contradictions, but the result is getting worse and worse, and the voice of a small number of rational people should attract the attention of Europe, after all, on the wrong road, the farther and farther away, the last "hurt" must be the Western countries themselves.