{"id":310034,"date":"2025-08-01T19:30:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T19:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/310034\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T19:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T19:30:13","slug":"trump-says-he-ordered-nuclear-submarines-to-region-over-ukraine-war-rhetoric-from-russias-medvedev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/310034\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he \u2018ordered\u2019 nuclear submarines to \u2018region\u2019 over Ukraine war rhetoric from Russia\u2019s Medvedev"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President Donald Trump<\/a> on Friday said he was redeploying a pair of American \u201cnuclear submarines<\/a>\u201d in response to belligerent statements made on X by former Russian president Dimitri Medvedev<\/a> earlier this week. <\/p>\n

Writing on Truth Social, Trump said he was ordering the American warships to \u201cthe appropriate regions\u201d due to what he called \u201cthe highly provocative statements of the Former President of Russia<\/a>\u201d and noted Medvedev\u2019s status as a deputy chair of the Russian national security council. <\/p>\n

Trump said the move was a precautionary measure \u201cjust in case these foolish and inflammatory statements are more than just that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWords are very important, and can often lead to unintended consequences, I hope this will not be one of those instances,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe USS Nevada, an Ohio-class nuclear-powered submarine, can carry up to 20 nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles (US Navy)<\/p>\n

The president\u2019s announcement comes just days after Medvedev took to X to respond to Trump\u2019s threat of secondary sanctions if Russia does not end its\u2019 three-year-old war against Ukraine<\/a> within a matter of days. <\/p>\n

The former Russian president said Trump should \u201cremember\u201d that Russia \u201cisn\u2019t Israel or even Iran\u201d and characterized Trump\u2019s ultimatum as \u201ca threat and a step towards war\u201d between Russia and the United States. <\/p>\n

It was not immediately clear whether Trump\u2019s use of the term \u201cnuclear submarines\u201d was referring to deploying Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines that form one third of America\u2019s nuclear deterrence \u201ctriad\u201d or the Los Angeles and Virginia-class fast-attack submarines that are designed to hunt down and destroy enemy ships and submarines. <\/p>\n

The White House did not immediately respond to an inquiry seeking to clarify which type of submarine Trump was referencing.<\/p>\n

Both the ballistic missile and fast-attack boats are nuclear powered, but only the Ohio-class missile submarines are known to carry nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n

The president\u2019s claim to be ordering American submarines to a particular region is highly unusual because the vessels\u2019 locations are never publicized. <\/p>\n

The U.S. Navy currently operates 14 Ohio-class subs that each carry 20 Trident D5 Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missiles which can be equipped with multiple thermonuclear warheads. <\/p>\n

Four additional Ohio-class boats have been converted to carry Tomahawk cruise missiles with conventional warheads. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-310034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114955172202202700","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}