An Open Letter to Dimkhitryi Medvedev

I’ll keep this short: you can go fuck yourself.

Poland isn’t suffering from Russophobia. Neither is Czechia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia or any other country that once found itself subject to the whims of the Soviet Union.

All of these countries have legitimate reasons to hate Russia. A phobia it is not. Russia’s clumsy, wanton, murderous rampage through Ukraine is all the proof they need that Russia has thrown away any claim to trust or feelings of affection of any kind from any country. Not that they needed that proof. All they had to do was look at Chechnya or Syria to see the same crimes, the same corrupt grab at power by incompetent bullies who only win when they get the chance to kick a smaller opponent when they’re already down.

It’s nice that you see yourself as some oppressed victim. Oh, poor Russia. Why does everyone hate us?

People tend to hate countries that attack a neighboring country just because. You know you can do it with impunity. Underneath the Russian nuclear shield and outside the confines of NATO, you know you have impunity. So what if The Hague tries and convicts your daddy, Putin. He’ll simply shuttle between Moscow and his villa on the Black Sea. He’ll stop attending G8 conventions on the wildcard invite back when other countries were pretending the Russian government was anything but a mafia front with historical pretentions.

By all means, rage against Poland. Get yourself good and worked up. But spare the people of Poland the idea that they’re screwing themselves over in the process. They know how to size up two options and pick the one that isn’t truly awful.

There was a time when you could claim Russophobia towards the US perhaps, but you fumbled that claim away when you began raining bombs down on hospitals and shopping malls.

So fuck off. And to be more specific — since your military lacks much skill — please sit your asshole on the end of a Kinzhal and press “detonate.” It’d be the fitting climax to your wasted, vicious, corrupt part in the bankrupting of whatever soul Russia had when the master you serve first came to power.