Trump orders 2 nuclear subs to be moved near Russian territory

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Current Events » Trump orders 2 nuclear subs to be moved near Russian territory
Kaldrenthebold
08/01/2025
01:30 PM
#1
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-orders-nuclear-submarines-moved-near-russia-2025-08-01/

Aug 1 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he had ordered two nuclear submarines to be positioned in regions near Russia in response to threats from former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

"I have ordered two Nuclear Submarines to be positioned in the appropriate regions, just in case these foolish and inflammatory statements are more than just that," Trump said in a social media post that called Medvedev's statements highly provocative.

He said he ordered the submarines moved "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."

Trump and Medvedev, who is deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, traded taunts in recent days after Trump on Tuesday said Russia had "10 days from today" to agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine or be hit, along with its oil buyers, with tariffs.

Moscow, which has set out its own terms for peace in Ukraine, has shown no sign that it will comply with Trump's deadline.
Medvedev on Monday accused Trump of engaging in a "game of ultimatums" and reminded him that Russia possessed Soviet-era nuclear strike capabilities of last resort after Trump told Medvedev to "watch his words."

Medvedev has emerged as one of the Kremlin's most outspoken anti-Western hawks since Russia sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine in 2022. Kremlin critics deride him as an irresponsible loose cannon, though some Western diplomats say his statements illustrate the thinking in senior Kremlin policy-making circles.

Imagine Donald fucking Trump saying the bolded as if he doesn't do the same stupid shit. My god the hypocrisy is so gross. It's the same GOP that can say whatever they want but someone claps back and "oh my precious pearl clutching!"

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party_animal07
08/01/2025
01:31 PM
#2
A gift?
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Voidgolem
08/01/2025
01:33 PM
#3
file leak so damning gotta saber-rattle for WW3, huh?
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monkmith
08/01/2025
01:35 PM
#4
i know he's a dumbass, but you'd think someone from the pentagon would have pleaded with him not to talk about the movements of hidden assets like nuclear subs...
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Ultima_Fury
08/01/2025
01:37 PM
#5
monkmith posted...
i know he's a dumbass, but you'd think someone from the pentagon would have pleaded with him not to talk about the movements of hidden assets like nuclear subs...

Yeah, I thought the whole point of submarines is not knowing where they are at any given moment. Way to give out info to Daddy Putin.
GeminiDeus
08/01/2025
01:40 PM
#6
monkmith posted...
i know he's a dumbass, but you'd think someone from the pentagon would have pleaded with him not to talk about the movements of hidden assets like nuclear subs...
Trump bombed three Iranian nuclear sites less than 2 months ago without going through the proper channels. As long as he personally doesn't get affected by it short term, he doesn't care.
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TomClark
08/01/2025
01:50 PM
#7
Literally threatening nuclear action because he got upset by some tweets.

Unreal.
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kingdrake2
08/01/2025
01:52 PM
#8
TomClark posted...
Unreal.


there's some hidden consequence of action that will happen.

we're fucked.
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wanderingshade
08/01/2025
01:53 PM
#9
President of Peace. Kamala would have brought us into World War 3!
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Strider102
08/01/2025
01:54 PM
#10
Putin sitting down nodding his head with a smile like "You activated my trap card!"
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IAmTheNakedMan
08/01/2025
01:55 PM
#11
monkmith posted...
i know he's a dumbass, but you'd think someone from the pentagon would have pleaded with him not to talk about the movements of hidden assets like nuclear subs...

I know little about the organisation of White House administration so apologies if this is incorrect but wouldn't that someone be that asshole Pete Hegseth?
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wanderingshade
08/01/2025
01:56 PM
#12
Strider102 posted...
Putin sitting down nodding his head with a smile like "You activated my trap card!"

His trap card is supposed to be an allegedly maintained system of retaliation that detects Earthquakes in the case of Moscow being nuked, and there's someone in a bunker somewhere whose job is only to cancel it in case it's a false alarm.
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WingsOfGood
08/01/2025
01:59 PM
#13
He used to complain about Biden and Zelensky because Russia was a nuclear power!
Vegy
08/01/2025
05:42 PM
#14
Crazy stuff
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PowerOats
08/01/2025
05:44 PM
#15
Ultima_Fury posted...


Yeah, I thought the whole point of submarines is not knowing where they are at any given moment. Way to give out info to Daddy Putin.


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opopopza
08/01/2025
05:52 PM
#16
Nuclear subs don't necessarily have nuclear bombs, though some of them do. They just are powered by nuclear reactor.
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havean776
08/01/2025
05:54 PM
#17
monkmith posted...
i know he's a dumbass, but you'd think someone from the pentagon would have pleaded with him not to talk about the movements of hidden assets like nuclear subs...
At this points spies are redundent to just subscribing to Trump's twitter.
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A_Good_Boy
08/01/2025
05:58 PM
#18
havean776 posted...
At this points spies are redundent to just subscribing to Trump's twitter.
They don't even have to do that. You can just go to Mar a Lago and trump will just straight up show you classified docs.
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GeraldDarko
08/01/2025
06:00 PM
#19
This is a political stunt and posturing. They don't tell us which subs or which class, just say nuclear subs. Doesn't say subs armed with nukes. Not to mention if this were a legitimate positioning to potentially strike Russia, we would do it covertly.
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_MorningStar
08/01/2025
06:15 PM
#20
monkmith posted...
i know he's a dumbass, but you'd think someone from the pentagon would have pleaded with him not to talk about the movements of hidden assets like nuclear subs...
This is honestly the most baffling part to me. Like....why fucking announce it?
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GeraldDarko
08/01/2025
06:23 PM
#21
_MorningStar posted...
This is honestly the most baffling part to me. Like....why fucking announce it?
Because this is about optics. That's why they only say nuclear subs, nor do they give the class. This is posturing, not a real positioning.
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CARRRNE_ASADA
08/01/2025
06:24 PM
#22
Wonder how much this costs
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OmegaShinkai
08/01/2025
06:29 PM
#23
CARRRNE_ASADA posted...
Wonder how much this costs
nothing because the subs were already there
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EPR-radar
08/01/2025
06:39 PM
#25
So, this particular toddler has nuclear submarines to play with.

Charming.
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Hexenherz
08/01/2025
06:47 PM
#26
opopopza posted...
Nuclear subs don't necessarily have nuclear bombs, though some of them do. They just are powered by nuclear reactor.
Well, yes. If you have a basic understanding of the terminology. Which Trump doesn't. So to him a "nuclear submarine" could very well mean a nuclear-ARMED submarine.

Also all of this is stupid as shit. The whole Russian government and mass media have been throwing around the nuclear threat on a weekly basis for the past three years.

And obviously submarine movements and locations are not publicly available data but like anyone with two brain cells can presume where submarines are operating it's not like we didn't endure a fifty year Cold War with these things. So Trump's threat just seems misinformed and dumb.
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Steffenfield
08/01/2025
06:50 PM
#27
I'm not exactly certain on this, but isn't posting the threat of nuclear annihilation against anyone a violation of the Terms and Services on Twitter?
Smiffwilm
08/01/2025
06:51 PM
#28
TomClark posted...
Literally threatening nuclear action because he got upset by some tweets.

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Starks
08/01/2025
07:20 PM
#29
We're not supposed to take Medvedev seriously. He's happy to walk up to the very edges of Kremlin rhetoric.
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EPR-radar
08/01/2025
07:22 PM
#30
Starks posted...
We're not supposed to take Medvedev seriously. He's happy to walk up to the very edges of Kremlin rhetoric.
In Russia, different people have the roles of king (Putin) and court jester (Medvedev).

In the US, Trump is both.
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thronedfire2
08/01/2025
07:24 PM
#31
opopopza posted...
Nuclear subs don't necessarily have nuclear bombs, though some of them do. They just are powered by nuclear reactor.

I'm pretty sure at this point they all have nuclear weapons

just pretty sure though. if someone has sources that say otherwise I will read them

also, "near Russian territory" is still a huge amount of ocean. And even if they did detect our subs, they wouldn't fire on them. Same as when we find russian subs in our territorial waters.
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Hexenherz
08/01/2025
07:45 PM
#32
thronedfire2 posted...
I'm pretty sure at this point they all have nuclear weapons

just pretty sure though. if someone has sources that say otherwise I will read them

also, "near Russian territory" is still a huge amount of ocean. And even if they did detect our subs, they wouldn't fire on them. Same as when we find russian subs in our territorial waters.
"Nuclear submarine" is a bit of a general term.

Nuclear-powered doesn't mean nuclear-armed. Fast attack and auxiliary submarines can be nuclear powered (the whole US fleet is nuclear powered) but don't carry nuclear missiles by default
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sfcalimari
08/01/2025
10:56 PM
#33
TomClark posted...
Literally threatening nuclear action because he got upset by some tweets.

Unreal.

Literally threatening a nuclear holocaust to avoid talking about Epstein.

Anyway...

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VRX3000
08/01/2025
11:11 PM
#34
So um.were nuking Ukraine in a few weeks, right?
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ConfusedTorchic
08/01/2025
11:12 PM
#35
Kaldrenthebold posted...
reminded him that Russia possessed Soviet-era nuclear strike capabilities

this right here proves that russia actually doesn't have those capabilities.

everything from the soviet era that russia has rolled out hasn't worked. like genuinely in such a state of disrepair that they functionally just didn't work.
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mybbqrules
08/02/2025
01:10 AM
#36
Another toothless "please stop talking about Epstein" distraction.

Krasnov ain't doing shit without Putie-boy's say so.
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ablegator
08/02/2025
01:16 AM
#37
Hey Krasnov, get me two!
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CobraGT
08/02/2025
01:58 AM
#38
Steffenfield posted...
I'm not exactly certain on this, but isn't posting the threat of nuclear annihilation against anyone a violation of the Terms and Services on Twitter?

CE should do this en masse: Mark this tweet for moderation.

(I do not want to be the only one doing it).
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Kaldrenthebold
08/02/2025
09:08 AM
#39
CobraGT posted...
CE should do this en masse: Mark this tweet for moderation.

(I do not want to be the only one doing it).

Man that would be hilarious if it got taken down
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darkknight109
08/02/2025
09:47 AM
#40
16-BITTER posted...
Not directly related, but i feel Medvedev has a slippery window in his future
Medvedev is doing exactly what he's supposed to. He's the "mad dog" in the Kremlin's PR team, saying all the angry, chest-thumping, war-mongering things so that a) The populists in Russia think that someone important is in their corner and b) Putin looks sane by comparison.
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Prismsblade
08/02/2025
10:34 AM
#42
This is just an empty show of force for anyone worried. Nuclear subs have long enough range that they dont need to be anywhere near Russia to fire.

So this is either a distraction from something and or an attempt at forcing Russia to the negotiation table. Which isnt going to happen at this point.
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BunkerBoy
08/02/2025
11:01 AM
#43
Prismsblade posted...
a distraction from something
Trump getting outed in the Epstein files
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