US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he’s ordering the repositioning of two US nuclear submarines close to Russia “based on the highly provocative statements” of the country’s former president Dmitry Medvedev.
Trump posted on his social media platform Truth Social that he had “ordered two Nuclear Submarines to be positioned in the appropriate regions, just in case these foolish and inflammatory statements are more than just that.”
The president added, “Words are very important, and can often lead to unintended consequences, I hope this will not be one of those instances.” The deployment comes after Medvedev warned Trump on Thursday to remember that Moscow had Soviet-era nuclear strike capabilities of last resort.
Just wanted to point out, he said this on Truth social. There’s no evidence that he actually ordered it. And even if he did it’s a nothing response. It doesn’t actually affect anything. It’s not a sanction, or weapon system delivered to Ukraine, or freezing of Russian oligarch accounts. Nothing that actually damages Russia
No, you don’t understand, these subs are nucular, you see, and he knows about nucular because his uncle was a MIT, big MIT nucular guy
And short-range nuclear missiles are interceptible 9 times out of 10 (whereas intercontinental missiles are 50/50). So moving the subs closer makes them less effective (not that the US doesn’t have thousands of them).
Good news! Only one city got nuked!