Trump Says He Ordered Subs Repositioned in Rare Nuclear Threat to Russia

[LearnedHand]

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Source: NYT (gift link)

President Trump said on his social media feed on Friday that he had “ordered two nuclear submarines” to be repositioned in response to online threats from Russia’s former president, Dmitri Medvedev, a rare threat of nuclear escalation between the superpowers.

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Well this has been my biggest fear.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Was going to happen eventually, either he's giving them to Putin as a gift

Well not a real gift, he would pay him under the table into his pocket a couple billion dollars, or like someone else here said he knows he’s dying soon so he figures he’ll take us all out with him, I’m hoping that’s the one and we could somehow stop him.

[Harker]

2. Leave it to Trumpsky to bleat aloud about the "Silent Service."

[shotten99]

3. These SOBs simply do not know what OPSEC is.

Giving away submarine deployment is breaching security.

[surfered]

4. Large weapons in the small hands of a man with chronic penis insufficiency.

[usonian]

5. Either he told Putin the coordinates, or they are there to escort Putin away from certain revolt in Russia.

Trump has exercised TWO military operations. The rest is all dick-waving and moronic economic blackmail and such, like tariffs.

And of course, top secret operations allow nobody to discover if they are real or not.

Perfect cover.

[thought crime]

6. BS from the Blustering Blowhard.

[Scalded Nun]

7. He'd start WWIII if he thought it would get Epstein off the front page

[doc03]

8. Like the Russians don't already know they are always there anyway. MAGAS probably think they

were tied up at Port in Norfolk I guess.

[cstanleytech]

9. It's a farce as Trump is pretending to not be Putin's Pet.

[RussBLib]

10. somebody take him out before a nuclear war breaks out

...how about some good old defenestration, like his pal Vlad.

https://russblib.blogspot.com

[Yonnie3]

11. Locking as a duplicate post

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