Trump Tries to Scare the Hell Out of Russia
Posted By: Dreadnought, 8/2/2025 1:32:27 AM
He may succeed only in scaring everyone else, though. Like a bolt from the blue on Friday, President Trump signaled that his patience with the Kremlin was all but exhausted. The time for carrots is behind us. Russian recalcitrance can be broken only with sticks. And the president is brandishing the biggest stick in his arsenal: The unusually bellicose statement follows remarks by Vladimir Putin’s deputy, Dmitry Medvedev, who recently dismissed President Trump’s decision to truncate the deadline he’d imposed on Russia to agree to a cease-fire with Ukraine. Medvedev implied that Russia’s nuclear arsenal grants it strategic impunity.
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He may succeed only in scaring everyone else, though.
Like a bolt from the blue on Friday, President Trump signaled that his patience with the Kremlin was all but exhausted. The time for carrots is behind us. Russian recalcitrance can be broken only with sticks. And the president is brandishing the biggest stick in his arsenal: The unusually bellicose statement follows remarks by Vladimir Putin’s deputy, Dmitry Medvedev, who recently dismissed President Trump’s decision to truncate the deadline he’d imposed on Russia to agree to a cease-fire with Ukraine. Medvedev implied that Russia’s nuclear arsenal grants it strategic impunity.
Here's a hint: It's something that Democrats could not shut up about for the last four years. No, it's not Defund the Police. That mission still gets some support from the progressive/socialist vanguard, as we see in New York City. And you know it's not about Donald Trump and his supposed "threat to democracy."
So which Democrat dog has ceased its barking? The one that barked up the wrong energy tree, according to an Axios review of Democrat speeches and social-media accounts:
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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,
U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday that he had ordered deployment of two nuclear submarines in response to "highly provocative" comments by a senior Russian official.
"Based on the highly provocative statements of the Former President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev..., 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," Trump posted on his Truth Social platform.
"Words are very important, and can often lead to unintended consequences, I hope this will not be one of those instances."
Trump did not say whether he meant nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed submarines.
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Clapper Crew Threatened Whistleblower
Who Refused To Sign Off On Fabricated
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Who Refused To Sign Off On Fabricated
Intel Assessment 12 replies
A crony of then-Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper threatened to withhold a promotion from a senior intelligence official unless he concurred in the fake Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) on Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election, notes obtained exclusively by The Federalist show.
The notes made public for the first time today recount a conversation the top analyst in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) had with an unnamed superior who worked closely with the then-Director James Clapper, according to sources familiar with the document.
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'Allies' Defying America Over a 'Palestinian State' 13 replies
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Docs Proves We All Were Censored to Protect Hillary 15 replies
Docs Proves We All Were Censored to Protect Hillary 15 replies
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