Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was mocked on social media after many of his outlandish predictions for 2023 failed to come true.
In a series of tweets on X, formerly Twitter, Medvedev predicted on December 26, 2022, that the U.K. would rejoin the EU, which would eventually collapse, and France would go to war with Germany again. Civil war in the U.S. was also in the cards, Medvedev said.
The deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia and ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin also said: "Oil price will rise to $150 a barrel," parts of western Ukraine would be occupied by Poland and Hungary, and a Fourth Reich would be created.
The Reich would contain "the territory of Germany and its satellites, i.e., Poland, the Baltic states, Czechia, Slovakia, the Kiev Republic and other outcasts."
A year later, X users mocked the predictions.
"Medvedev's predictions for 2023, one year ago today... It'll have to be a pretty busy week," one user said.
"Still 5 days left for the fourth Reich to come back," another added. One person also wrote: "Four more days for all of this to happen. So exciting!"
Newsweek has reached out to the Russian government via email for comment.
The full list of Medvedev's predictions:
- Oil price to rise to $150 a barrel
- Gas price will top $5.000 per 1,000 cubic meters
- U.K. to rejoin the EU
- EU to collapse
- Euro to collapse
- Poland and Hungary to occupy western Ukraine
- Fourth German Reich with Poland, Baltic countries, Czechia, Slovakia, parts of Ukraine and "other outcasts" to be created
- War between France and Germany
- Poland to be repartitioned
- Northern Ireland to join the Republic of Ireland
- Civil war in the U.S.; California and Texas to become independent states. Texas and Mexico to form an allied state
- Civil war to end and Elon Musk to become president (Elon Musk reacted with a shocked face emoji)
- Stock markets to relocate from U.S. and Europe to Asia
- IMF and World Bank crash
- Euro and dollar to stop circulating: "Digital fiat currencies will be actively used instead"
Medvedev admitted that the predictions were a "humble contribution" amid people online coming up with "futuristic hypotheses, as if competing to single out the wildest, and even the most absurd ones."
So far, none of the predictions have come true and anarchy in Europe will have to occur in the next four days for Medvedev to be correct.
The former president and prime minister of Russia signed off the thread with a bizarre message: "Season greetings to you all, Anglo-Saxon friends, and their happily oinking piglets!"
During his presidency from 2008 to 2012, a number of experts hailed Medvedev as a sign that Russia would become a more liberal democracy open to friendly terms with the West. He was even taken by President Barack Obama to a Ray's Hell Burger restaurant in Arlington, Virginia, in 2010.
In June 2022, Medvedev wrote on the social media app Telegram that he "hates" certain groups people, but it was unclear if this was specifically talking about people from Ukraine or politicians in Western countries.
"I'm often asked why my Telegram posts are so harsh," he said. "The answer is that I hate them...."
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