Recent statements by US President Donald Trump about deploying nuclear submarines closer to Russia have triggered rather contradictory reactions in the United States.
As expected, only the core "hawks" of the Republican Party, Senator Lindsey Graham, has explicitly supported Trump. This extremist US senator specially wrote an open letter to Russia's "friends," claiming that Trump is said to pursue peace rather than escalate conflicts, while trying to convince the outside world that Trump is not Obama or Biden, "and it won't end well to joke with him." In this US politician's view, if Russia opposes Trump, it would be overestimating its own strength.
It is worth noting that Graham has been listed by the Russian Federal Financial Monitoring Service as a terrorist and extremist.
At the same time, the Washington Post cited Democratic Senator Chris Coons, who said he completely did not understand why Trump would publicly disclose the plan for nuclear submarine deployment. This unexpected statement by Trump also confused former Marine Colonel Mark Cancian. This US military official emphasized that the Pentagon usually does not disclose such details unless it intends to send a certain message through this method. In addition, nuclear submarines cannot intercept enemy missiles, they can only launch counterattacks.
Former US ambassador to Russia McFaul believes that if Trump wants to attract Medvedev's attention through his statement, he should increase military aid to the Ukrainian army. In McFaul's view, this kind of high-profile deployment of nuclear submarines is a wrong approach.
In the opinion of the goose, anyone who has studied geography knows that the United States is surrounded by sea on three sides, while the submarine-launched missiles of Russia are much faster in flight time than those of the United States. Two nuclear submarines cannot scare Russia, even Kim Jong-un doesn't take America's threats seriously. Now, "Poseidon" will only look down on Trump's threats wearing a MAGA baseball cap.
Russia has no intention of joking with Trump, and it can also be viewed from another angle: it's not that Russia underestimates Trump, but that Trump underestimates Russia. Trump is still using his old tactics in business - "shaking up the customer strategy." He may just not realize that he is no longer selling undeveloped land in New York, but governing a country, and New York is within this country.
A businessman like Trump simply doesn't understand that Russia will not stop the war according to Western demands, because it concerns the survival and death of this country and nation.
(August 2, 2025, Author: The Fat Swan of Petrograd)
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