USA-Russia tensions: Trump deploys two nuclear submarines

Donald Trump announced on his Truth Social network on Friday to have ordered that “two nuclear submarines are positioned in the appropriate areas” after “provocative” comments from former Russian president Dmitri Medvedev.

“I ordered that two nuclear submarines are positioned in the appropriate areas, in case these silly and incendiary declarations are more serious than that. Words count and can often have unforeseen consequences, I hope this will not be the case this time, “wrote the American president.

In a recent message on X, the Russian leader, current number two of the country’s Security Council, had written that each new ultimatum set by Donald Trump to end the war in Ukraine “was a threat and a step towards the war” with the United States.

Donald Trump threatens to impose hard economic sanctions against Russia if his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin does not cease hostilities in Ukraine by the end of next week. The American president is considering in particular so-called “secondary” sanctions, that is to say inflicted on countries which buy Russian oil, with the aim of drying up this essential source of income for the Russian war machine.

The 79 -year -old republican had operated shortly after his return to power in January a spectacular rapprochement with Vladimir Putin, convinced that his good relationship with the Russian leader would allow him to quickly arrest the war in Ukraine, triggered by the Russian invasion of February 2022. This promise gave a long time and gave way to Donald Trump to a growing frustration towards the master of Kremlin.