President Trump Orders Deployment of Nuclear Forces to Counter Russian Threats – RedState

President Trump responded to multiple threats by former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to attack the U.S. with nuclear weapons by ordering the deployment of two ballistic missile submarines to stand ready in case of a Russian miscalculation. Writing on TruthSocial, President Trump said:

Based on the highly provocative statements of the Former President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, who is now the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, I have ordered two Nuclear Submarines to be positioned in the appropriate regions, just in case these foolish and inflammatory statements are more than just that. Words are very important, and can often lead to unintended consequences, I hope this will not be one of those instances. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

This started on Monday when President Trump commented that he was “very disappointed” in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s actions. “I’m going to make a new deadline, of about 10, 10 or 12 days from today,” Trump said. “There’s no reason for waiting. It was 50 days. I wanted to be generous, but we just don’t see any progress being made.”

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This drew a particularly bellicose response from Dmitry Medvedev. Medvedev has been “former” everything in Russia. He was president from 2008 to 2012. He served as Prime Minister from 2012 to 2020. He has served as Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia since 2020. All of this is important because he has moved from one power position to another without falling from a window. It is impossible to imagine Medvedev taking a very public shot at Trump, including his trademarked threat of war, without coordination with Putin.

Trump’s playing the ultimatum game with Russia: 50 days or 10… He should remember 2 things: 

1. Russia isn’t Israel or even Iran. 

2. Each new ultimatum is a threat and a step towards war. Not between Russia and Ukraine, but with his own country. Don’t go down the Sleepy Joe road!

Trump responded in kind:

I don’t care what India does with Russia. They can take their dead economies down together, for all I care. We have done very little business with India, their Tariffs are too high, among the highest in the World. Likewise, Russia and the USA do almost no business together. Let’s keep it that way, and tell Medvedev, the failed former President of Russia, who thinks he’s still President, to watch his words. He’s entering very dangerous territory!

Later, Medvedev made an even more pointed threat:

About Trump’s threats against me in his personal network Truth, which he banned from operating in our country.

If some words of the former Russian president cause such a nervous reaction in the entire, formidable US president, then Russia is right in everything and will continue to go its own way.

And about the “dead economy” of India and Russia and “entering dangerous territory” — well, let him remember his favorite films about the “walking dead,” as well as how dangerous a “dead hand” that does not exist in nature can be. [“tears of joy” emoji]

“Dead hand,” of course, refers to the Russian system, developed during the Soviet era, for launching nuclear missiles without the order of political or military leadership.

Practically, if Russia wanted to launch a nuclear attack, it wouldn’t send a geriatric alcoholic out to make an announcement, and if we were going to attack Russia, we wouldn’t announce submarine deployments in advance. With Russia’s record in engineering and maintenance, there is a non-zero chance that its nuclear arsenal has been disabled by mice nesting in the controls. The fact is that Russia uses the threat of nuclear war as a frequent tactic to increase the sales of Depends in some parts of the West. 

This is a list of Russia’s threats to use nukes since the beginning of the Ukraine war and ending in June 2024.

The difference is that this time, someone has pushed back. A high-profile, public reaction to Russian threats has been needed for years. While we may not take Russia’s bluster all that seriously, what we ignore is that Russia’s threat messages aren’t aimed at us. They are aimed at our allies or unaligned nations who see Russia threatening us while we do nothing. Hopefully, this will also be a sign to Russian President Vladimir Putin that the stories he read about Russia’s influence over President Trump in the Washington Post were fake news and a warning to the Russian simps who have been invited into the Defense Department in large numbers that it’s time to choose a side.

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