How a Trump order on nuclear submarines revives the ghost of the total war with Russia

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But how did everything start? Dmitri Medvedevcurrent vice president of the Russian Security Council, published in X and Telegram warnings aimed at Trump about the aggressive character of his ultimatums to Moscow.

Last month, Trump gave Putin 50 days to agree to negotiate the end of the war in Ukraine or will face the imposition of tariffs. Then it reduced that period to 10 days. In one of your publications, Medvedev He said that Each additional ultimatum represents “a threat and a step towards war.”

“Trump is giving Russia an ultimatum: 50 days or 10 … I should remember two things: 1. Russia is not Israel, they will not even go. 2. Each new ultimatum is a threat and a step towards war (…) not between Russia and Ukraine, but with their own country “wrote.

He US President responded in social truth and described Medvedev as “Russian president failed That he believes president … Be careful with his words. ¡You are entering very dangerous field!“

Medvedev did not remain silent and in another message he said that Trump should imagine a stage like the apocalyptic television series “The Walking Dead”. In addition, he urged him to remember “how dangerous the mythical ‘can be’Dead Hand‘(Dead handa) ”, an alleged automatic nuclear retaliation system of Soviet origin, which could be activated if the Russian political dome was eliminated in a surprising attack. This allusion caused alarm in Washington by the implicit threat.

In response to Medvedev, Trump said Friday that he had ordered two nuclear submarines to reposition “in the appropriate regions, by If these foolish and incendiary statements are more than that ”, thus accentuating the unusual threat of nuclear climbing between the superpowers.

“Words are very important, they can often have unforeseen consequences, I hope this is not one of those cases”he added.

The American newspaper The New York Times remarked that The movements of the nuclear submarines are among the most secret tactical maneuvers of the Pentagonand that most likely it is impossible to know if Trump is really repositioning the submarinesor you are just trying to send a message to Russia.

In Moscow, the Presidential spokesman Dmitri Peskov He said Monday at his daily press conference that “In a nuclear war there can be no victors. This is, surely, the main postulate by the guide. ”

Also He recalled that Putin is the one that marks foreign policy and the only valid interlocutor for Trump.

“Everyone must be very careful in relation to nuclear rhetoric,” He held Peskov. He stressed that Moscow does not consider that it takes place between Russia and the United States “some kind of climbing” nuclear. “We would not like to be involved in such controversy”he added.

Regarding submarinesPeskov remarked that “American nuclear submarines are always on alert, it is constant.”

Medvedev is Putin’s informal spokesman

For Andrés Gómez de la Torrespecialist in defense and intelligence, Trump’s announcement “It is a first deterrence of disjection against Russiain some aspects aspavientosa for the size. It must be understood in the context of the exhaustion of Trump’s intentions and security and security policy, which has come since he was a candidate for the presidency, when he promised to end the Russian-Ukrainian conflict very quickly ”.

About MedvedevGómez de la Torre said to Commerce who is an informal spokesman for Putina kind of “high -level political partner who already has us accustomed us to a certain declarative stridency.”

“Then, also part of a communicational strategy to use Medvedev as A kind of informal spokesman that always analyzes maximalist options“he remarked.

“Medvedev is undoubtedly a voice of what Putin and the Russian government think, It is functional for certain stridency and maximalist options that also have, in one way or another, a declarative deterrence reading ”he added.

Gómez de la Torre said that it should be remembered that From the Cold War the concept of insured mutual destruction is clear; that is, that No one is going to win in a nuclear conflict between the United States and Russia.

“Since the 1962 missile crisis, the possibility of a war is always latent and difficult. While there were great tensions, communication mechanisms have worked, even more now with new technologies”he said.

On the use of nuclear submarines, Gómez de la Torre said they are used because It is a silent, high mobility weapon compared to, for example, intercontinental ballistics or ICBM.

“Submarines have that high mobility capacity, to silently approach the target and have missile launching systems with nuclear heads. The American nuclear submarine fleet is probably the most powerful in the world”He stressed.

The most powerful nuclear submarines in the US

The United States Navy has three types of submarines: Ohio, Virginia and Columbia class. All are driven by nuclear energy, but only one of them carries nuclear weapons.

Those of the class Ohio They are Balistic Missile Submarines (SSBN) and cruise missile submarines (SSGN).

There are 14 SSBN and four SSGN.

SSBN can carry up 24 BALLISTICS MISHEDES TRIDES II D5with multiple nuclear heads (MIRV). While the SSGN lead to 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles.

The Trident have a range of up to 7,400 kilometers, Which means that they would not have to approach Russia to attack her. According to CNN, they could do it from the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian or Arctic Oceans.

The Ohio class submarines have been designed to be undetectable.

They measure 170 meters long, move almost 19,000 submerged tons and have a crew of 159 people. They can reach a speed of 37 kilometers per hour.

They are in service since the 80s, but they are constantly modernized.

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