EU may turn into very hostile military alliance for Russia, worse than NATO — Medvedev

MOSCOW, April 3. /TASS/. The European Union could turn into an extremely hostile military alliance toward Russia, "worse than NATO," Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Head of the Russian Security Council, said on Max. "It is obvious that there are powerful contradictions within the alliance, which have been exacerbated by the Iranian campaign. And European political freaks, especially in Brussels, are seriously thinking about creating a full-fledged military component within the EU. But this is altering the picture of the world," Medvedev warned. He said until now the Russian rhetoric about EU membership has been restrained and calm in relation to all neighbors, even to Ukraine: join it, if you want. "But now everything has to change - now the EU is no longer an economic union. It can quickly turn into a full-fledged and extremely hostile military alliance against Russia, in some ways worse than NATO," the politician said. "It will be a disgusting rabble of rabid European parasites and their task will be to earn political capital and, of course, dough by inflating Russophobic hysteria. It’s time to abandon the tolerant attitude towards joining the military-economic European Union of our neighbors." Medvedev said that Russian President Vladimir Putin had already done this neatly when he told Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan that Moscow was calm about the development of Yerevan’s relations with the EU, but Armenia would not be able to be in two customs unions at once - the European Union and the Eurasian Economic Union.