cross-posted from: https://metawire.eu/post/247532
US President Donald Trump on Friday announced that he had ordered two nuclear submarines to deploy near Russia, responding to what he called “foolish and inflammatory” threats from former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev.
I was walking along, minding my business, when that orange colored guuuy
flash, bam, alakazam
doomed us all to diiie
Just for show. He’s still putin’s bitch.
Yeah. Talk is cheap. Watch what he actually does, ignore the firehose of bullshit.
Dog and pony show to look tough. We all know who he reports to.
Lol, we’re all going to fucking die before his term is over.
Hey, at least I don’t need to put out a campaign sign saying “Atomic Winter 2028”
Taco is pulling another Epstein distraction card?
Medvedev’s been getting a little too freaky during phone sex
Oh my god he hasn’t even been in ofice a year, already feels like four. Why haven’t the McDonald’s cheeseburgers started doing their job already
After musk opened the doors to Russia who the hell knows what Russia knows now.
Also there is no reason to goto war with them. They don’t want our land and we don’t want theirs. wtf is wrong with this fucking sick world.
There will likely be a lot of stupid conflicts over the Arctic in the oncoming decades, sad to say.
They won’t go to war. Trump likes to look tough and pretend he’s a powerful leader. He needs an ego boost after all the negative press about him fucking underage girls and poor jobs outlooks.
Need to queue up a bigger headline to dominate the news cycle when Ghislaine Maxwell disappears from prison
“He also did not elaborate on the locations, which are kept secret by the US military.” OK who in the cabinet is going to leak the location first, anyone taking bets?
Cue a bottle of russian vodka being delivered to Pete’s office
is anyone keeping an eye on the War Thunder forums?
Trump will while trying to brag.
“Our nuclear submarines were deployed so fast, the fastest they’ve ever been deployed. They made the trip from China to Crimea in under a week. So fast”
You gotta get the season pass for Warthunder if you want that.
They tend to move around though.
The wife of the drunkard who leaked belligerent assault plans on Snapchat.
The white supremacist tattooed gentleman from Fox News who got appointed by a razor thin margin where only 50 Republicans voted for him?
Mtg
JFC. The President of the United States has publicly announced where he’s moved the most powerful weapon platforms in all human history, whose whole raison d’etre is to be fucking covert, utterly hidden. Just so he could flex.
Of all the crazy shit the man has done, this one rustles my jimmies.
I’m sorry, but this is the one?
The man is still an idiot but saying we have 2 nearby is useless information considering how covert they are and how much space they could be in. Foreign Nuclear subs have literally crashed into each other because they are so sneaky they couldn’t hear each other until they literally hit and “nearby” can include an area that is millions of square miles.
He could always say he did and lie, it wouldn’t be the first time, and it’s more in-character of such pathological liar con man.
Meh, maybe you’re right, but flexing is equally in character.
Yeah, I wouldn’t even be surprised if the military was completely ignoring him in such regards, if Hegseth was stopping weapons shipments to Ukraine without the president knowing why should we believe he knows anything that is going on with them. He’s probably just a racist, sexist, pedophile being used as a puppet because it appeals and upsets enough people to be used as a guise.
The boomers were already in place. Think our finest weapon platform wasn’t already in range to hit Russia? But saying so out loud is a threat of Biblical proportions.
As a show of force, moving nuclear submarines around doesn’t seem like a great play.
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A nuclear submarine’s strongest asset versus a surface ship is that one can’t know where it is. It goes down, it doesn’t come back up again for half a year, that makes it hard to identify. Why give clues that narrow things down at all?
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Because it needs to stay hidden, you can’t show it to the person you’re doing the show of force to, which makes your words just functionally words — the only weight here is the credibility your words hold. (Which in Trump’s case may be one of, if not the, lowest credibility I’d personally assign to any historical US president.)
I mean, I think that moving literally any military asset other than submarines doesn’t have this issue. Surface vessels, aircraft, land forces, whatever.
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“It is now 89 seconds to midnight”
I think it’s time to update that …
he’s still pedophile.
Every news outlet should just fist that into every headline.
Known pedophile and rapist, insert headline
He is probably going to give them to Putin as a gift.
Keys are in the ignition.
Their relationship has changed. I don’t think Trump cares about Putin anymore. The pee tape being released (assuming it does exist) won’t harm him, and Trump no longer relies on Putin’s funding or social media manipulation for elections. Trump got most of his funding for the last election from Elon and people who know Elon, and now Trump can create other ways for foreign influence to launder money to him (such as the Trump cryptocurrency).
Meanwhile, Trump feels directly snubbed that his “deadlines” for a Ukraine ceasefire have been ignored by Putin. That’s why you see renewed funding for Ukraine.
Narcissists can be very deferential to people they see as equal or above them on the social hierarchy, and Trump likely saw Putin that way. But not anymore.
Trump likes Putin because he showered him with praise and admiration for 20 years, not because of some threats of blackmail. He got invited to all the big parties in Moscow, but never got invited to any in Britain, or France, or Washington, hence why he hates them and loves Russia.
This? This is all theater for the part of the Republicans that still don’t like Putin. This isn’t real action.
Where are the Republicans that still hate Russia? They’ve been very quiet for the last decade. Wherever they are, I see no reason Trump would care about them.
Giving funding back to Ukraine is concrete action.
Your first paragraph can be true while also having a recent falling out.
There are no Republicans that still hate Russia.
Obligatory reminder that when Putin ordered his puppets home on Independence Day, they fucking boarded a plane and kissed the ring.
They know about it and protect their own. “What’s said in the family stays in the family.”
Shit maybe the CIA is slowly deprogramming him, who knows. He’s announced funding back to Ukraine, they’ve asked for the details. Again I’ll wait till I see concrete action.
“No ties attached I swear”
I am honored to be the president of peace!
~ This fucking goon
Also this week:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/leavitt-time-trump-won-nobel-225301881.html
Leavitt: It’s time Trump won a Nobel Peace Prize
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said it’s “well past time” that President Donald Trump received the Nobel Peace Prize.
lol, he wouldn’t even win the Nobel pizza prize if it was free after 30 minutes and he’d waiting a year.
Man I wish he’d bring war to the warmongers, instead of threatening Canada and Greenland and Europe.
This feels fake, though. Theater for the anti-Russian GOP.
Also, publicly announcing your nuclear sub movements is a pretty good way to get positive ID on some of the yet unidentified algae bloom wakes, so kudos, Donny. Ta!
good way to get positive ID on some of the yet unidentified algae bloom wakes,
need more context for what appears to be a pretty clever comment
Just from reading the comment I guess there have been wakes spotted in fields of algae (which can be quite extensive during a bloom) via images from space and no ship movement could be attributed to them.
Apparently in algae bloom regions ships leave wakes that “can be seen in satellite radar images as long bright strips of enhanced backscatter with characteristic length of up to several hundred kilometres lasting more than 5 hours” according to this Russian Space Research Institute article.
Fuck yeah, thanks for answering.
there it is!
Fuck yeah. Thank you for asking.
