Trump Shocked The Kremlin With His Decision To Send Nuclear Subs
13- 4.08.2025, 14:34
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Medvedev bit his tongue.
Former Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, who was appointed deputy chairman of the Security Council after he was fired from the government in 2020, suddenly went silent on social media after U.S. President Donald Trump announced the deployment of nuclear subs to Russia in response to Medvedev's threats to engage the Dead Hand, a Soviet-era nuclear retaliatory strike system, writes The Moscow Times.
Bedvedev has not published a single post on his Telegram channel since July 31. Then he threatened Trump with nuclear war and "the walking dead" in response to statements about the "dead economy" of India and Russia. Medvedev's X (formerly Twitter) accounts in both Russian and English were also silenced.
In response to Medvedev's posts, Trump first suggested that Medvedev "watch his words" and then announced the deployment of two U.S. Navy submarines to "appropriate areas" to "protect" the American people.
Trump later clarified that he had sent the submarines closer to Russia and said the U.S. was "fully prepared" for nuclear war. "A threat was made, and we considered it inappropriate," Trump said.
Medvedev is probably "in shock," said political analyst Abbas Galliamov: "He has long since gotten used to the fact that words can have consequences. Life in the 'shoal, Yemelya, your week' mode has weaned him from this."
Although Trump did not specify which submarines he was referring to, he most likely meant the Ohio-class strategic submarines, military expert Yuri Fedorov believes. "Each (such) missile carrier has 24 Trident missile launchers. And on each Trident missile there are eight warheads. Approximately 100-kiloton power," Fedorov says.
Thereby, just the two subs mentioned by Trump carry more than 350 warheads. They are capable of completely destroying Russia's European territory, as well as Mount Yamantau, home to the "Dead Hand" headquarters that Medvedev threatened Trump with, Fedorov notes.
William Alberk, a senior fellow at Pacific Forum, Hawaii, and former director of NATO's Center for Arms Control, Disarmament and Nonproliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction, sees Trump's statements as a signal to Putin that he does not appreciate "Dmitry Medvedev's attempts to remind people of his existence."
"I think ultimately Putin will understand Trump's message, in particular that Medvedev's unsubstantiated statements are much less valuable now as a strategy to contain the West than they were during Biden's presidency," Alberk told RBC. He also suggested that Putin will deal with the situation sooner or later.
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