Alexander Mercouris
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Russia Maintains Bakhmut Pressure, Repels Kremennaya Attack; Medvedev Russia’s Armaments Chief, Putin Oil Decree
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To the question of the mystery of the letter and counter letter involved in the Medvedev /Xi meeting in Bejing, there may be other alternative possibilities, this one however certainly being plausible. What if the message was so important and dramatic that conveying it by current electronic or cyber communications would constitute an unacceptable risk so that someone as trusted and high up as Medvedev would have to be tasked to personally deliver it to the Chinese leader? Could it be to cement or confirm any agreement or strategy concerning joint military operations in the event of an existential threat… Read more »
To clarify below….. “this one certainly being plausible”, I was referring to the possibility in the video that it could have been a message that Medvedev was the anointed successor in the event that Mr.Putin would eventually step down or otherwise be replaced. If I indeed understood the moderator’s supposition.