“The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.” ― Douglas Adams
A perfectly understandable thing to do. Redeploy nuclear submarines because of a tweet. This is exactly what a world leader should do to bring even more instability between two nuclear armed countries. Pure genius!
I’m sure the tweet from the former Russian President was horrendously menacing, right?
On Tuesday, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev issued the Kremlin’s response to President Trump’s Monday announcement from Scotland that he’s reducing a deadline for Russia to agree a peace settlement from 50 days to 10 or 12 days, citing ‘disappointment’ in Putin not ending or at least winding down the war.
Medvedev warned: “Russia isn’t Israel or even Iran” and thus that “Each new ultimatum is a threat and a step towards war. Not between Russia and Ukraine, but with (Trump’s) own country.”
Then Thursday, Trump told Medvedev to “watch his words”
And now, Friday morning, President Trump took to his Truth Social account and escalated from words to actions moving two nuclear submarines to be positioned “in the appropriate regions” based on “highly provocative” statements from former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
“Words are very important, and can often lead to unintended consequences, I hope this will not be one of those instances,” Trump says
As we noted earlier, Trump’s position, based on his latest remarks, is that the war “should be stopped, It’s a disgrace.” And yet the US still appears unwilling to strongly pressure Zelensky to make territorial concessions and to declare Ukraine will never join NATO. Washington also still continues arming Kiev.
These things remain red lines for Russia.
Just lucky that there is no Autonomous AI running the show, then we could be in real trouble?
We anxiously await Medvedev’s response (kinetic or otherwise).
Threats, bullying, topsy-turvy changes in policies from one day to the next – the mob boss at his best.
And so what…a couple of nuclear subs redeployed? I mean, what could happen?
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