Known for his frequent inflammatory and threatening statements, the Russian former president Dmitry Medvedevand current vice chairman of the Russian Security Council, has once again threatened the West with all-out nuclear war if Russia is pushed back to its 1991 borders.

In a Telegram post, Medvedev reiterated his well-known position that “nuclear powers never lose a war” as long as they defend their homeland.

He referred to a hypothetical scenario that in the event of her victory Ukrainian against the Russian invasion. In Medvedev’s judgment, returning Ukraine to its old borders would conflict with the Russian Constitution, especially since the Russian-conquered territories in eastern Ukraine and Crimea had already been annexed as integral parts of of Russia.

“And now to the main question: do these idiots (in the West) really believe that the Russian people would accept such a fragmentation of their country?” he wondered.

Instead, the Russian armed forces would deploy their entire arsenal and launch attacks on Washington, the Berlin or London except Kiev.

All of these and other “historically beautiful sites have long since been targeted by (Russia’s) nuclear triad,” he said, referring to the formation of land-based ICBMs, submarine-launched missiles and nuclear-tipped strategic bombers.