(NewsNation) — Dmitry Medvedev, a former Russian president and ally of current leader Vladimir Putin, warned of a “destructive civil confrontation” in the United States as the Biden administration and Texas officials battle over border issues.
“Establishing a People’s Republic of Texas is getting more and more real,” Medvedev, now the Deputy Chair of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, wrote on X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter. “The American Administration shows its total inability to cope with the migration crisis which has broken out in one of the largest U.S. states.”
The United States and Russia’s relationship deteriorated after the latter country’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2023.
Texas officials and the federal government, meanwhile, have long been at odds over what to do about issues at the southern border. This came to a head when the Supreme Court earlier this year issued a ruling that allows federal agents to cut razor wire the state installed near the town of Eagle Pass.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, meanwhile, said in January that having the razor wire installed makes it more difficult for Border Patrol to apprehend those who cross.
Medvedev criticized the Biden administration’s actions regarding the wire, saying on X that “anything will do when defending against the flow of migrants” on the border.
“This is yet another vivid example of the U.S. hegemony getting weaker, a process that is happening from the inside, and is the result of the Americans’ own actions,” he wrote.
Medvedev, in his remarks, went as far as to reference the Civil War in his post.
“With their inaction, these very authorities can drive the people of Texas up the wall — the very people who are even now mulling over separation,” he said. “There are known cases in history when some states tried to break away from the Union and form the Confederacy. The end result was the bloody civil war which cost thousands upon thousands of lives.”
An organization in Texas pushing for secession did attempt to put the question of whether Texas should separate from the United States on the GOP primary ballot — but the Houston Chronicle reported in January that the state Supreme Court declined to take the case.
