A FORMER Russian president has predicted a united Ireland in 2023.
Dmitry Medvedev, who served as placeholder president between 2008-2012 when Vladimir Putin had to shift into the prime minister’s post because of term limits, made the prediction on Twitter as part of a thread ahead of the New Year.
As well as claiming the UK would rejoin the European Union, Mr Medvedev, who is currently deputy head of Russia’s Security Council, said: "Northern Ireland will separate from the UK and join the Republic of Ireland".
Posting on Twitter he wrote: "On the New Year’s Eve, everybody’s into making predictions.
"Many come up with futuristic hypotheses, as if competing to single out the wildest, and even the most absurd ones.
"Here’s our humble contribution".
His predictions included the suggestion of rising oil prices, that the EU will collapse when the UK rejoins the trading bloc and that Poland and Hungary would "occupy western regions of the formerly existing Ukraine".
He also predicted that civil war will break out in the US, adding that California and Texas will become independent states as a result.
He also suggested Texas and Mexico will form an allied state.
He further suggested that all the largest stock markets and financial activity will leave the US and Europe and move to Asia.
In addition, he predicted that the euro and dollar will stop circulating as the global reserve currencies with digital fiat currencies "actively used instead".
Ending the thread, he wrote: "Season greetings to you all, Anglo-Saxon friends, and their happily oinking piglets".
His predictions come just months after Mr Medvedev suggested the USA and other countries in the West were trying to provoke Russia’s break-up and warned that such attempts could lead to doomsday.
He also warned that an attempt to push Russia towards collapse would amount to a "chess game with death".
