{"id":111274,"date":"2025-08-01T21:28:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T21:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/111274\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T21:28:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T21:28:14","slug":"trump-moves-nuclear-submarines-after-ex-russian-presidents-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/111274\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump moves nuclear submarines after ex-Russian president’s comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Donald Trump did not say where the two submarines were being deployed<\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump says he has ordered two nuclear submarines to “be positioned in the appropriate regions” in response to “highly provocative” comments by former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.<\/p>\n

Trump said he acted “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”. <\/p>\n

He did not say where the two submarines were being deployed, in keeping with US military protocol.<\/p>\n

Medvedev has recently threatened the US in response to Trump’s ultimatums to Moscow to agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine, or face tough sanctions.<\/p>\n

Russia and the US possess the most nuclear arms in the world, and both countries have a fleet of nuclear submarines.<\/p>\n

In Friday’s post on Truth Social, Trump wrote: “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”.<\/p>\n

The US president did not say whether he was referring to nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed submarines in his post on Truth Social.<\/p>\n

Trump and Medvedev have recently been involved in a series of personal attacks against each other on social media. <\/p>\n

It comes after Trump set a new deadline for Putin to bring the war to an end by 8 August – which Putin has shown no signs of doing.<\/p>\n

Before that on Monday, Trump had set a “10 or 12” day deadline. Earlier in July he threatened Russia with severe tariffs targeting its oil and other exports if Putin did not end the war in 50 days.<\/p>\n

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Dmitry Medvedev was Russia’s president in 2008-12<\/p>\n

Medvedev – who was Russia’s president from 2008 to 2012 – accused Trump of playing “the ultimatum game with Russia” earlier this week.<\/p>\n

In a post on X, Medvedev said “each new ultimatum is a threat and a step towards war”. <\/p>\n

He also described Trump’s ultimatum as “theatrical” earlier in July, saying that “Russia didn’t care”.<\/p>\n

Writing on Telegram on Thursday, Medvedev warned of a “dead hand” threat – which some military analysts understood as a reference to the codename of Russia’s retaliatory nuclear strikes control system.<\/p>\n

Friday wasn’t the first time Trump responded to Medvedev’s comments. On Thursday, he described Medvedev as “the failed former president of Russia, who thinks he’s still president”.<\/p>\n

Trump also warned Medvedev to “watch his words”, adding that “he’s entering very dangerous territory!”<\/p>\n

Medvedev supports Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine launched in 2022, and is an outspoken critic of the West.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images Donald Trump did not say where the two submarines were being deployed US President Donald Trump…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":111275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-111274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114955637306941485","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}