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Facing Russia, Donald Trump's "madman theory," who announces the mobilization of two nuclear submarines

Facing Russia, Donald Trump's "madman theory," who announces the mobilization of two nuclear submarines
A photo made available by the Colombian Navy of a US nuclear submarine during an exercise off the coast of Cartagena, Colombia, in February 2022. COLOMBIAN NAVY VIA AFP

Donald Trump announced on Friday, August 1 , the deployment of two nuclear submarines to combat Russia . "Following the highly provocative statements of former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, now Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, I have ordered the deployment of two nuclear submarines to the relevant areas, in case these insane and inflammatory statements become more than that," the American president wrote on his Truth Social network. He added: "Words are very important and can often have unintended consequences. I hope that will not be the case."

The reason for this was Mr. Medvedev's remarks. Just before being called "the failed president of Russia who thinks he's still president" by Donald Trump, the former Russian head of state invited the White House tenant to watch the post-apocalyptic TV series The Walking Dead again in Russian on the Telegram network and in Russian, and he alluded to the famous "dead hand," Soviet Russia's automatic nuclear response system.

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