• MTK@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    I can’t wait for WWIII to start because of a corrupt pedophile and not the 10 political wars and genocides going on right now.

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      IMHO what Trump writes about is just business as usual. Standard posturing (both literally and figuratively) that is happening anyhow all the time on all sides. Anyhow, all it says is “appropriate positions”, so I counter: shouldn’t military submarines always be in “appropriate positions”?

      Normally you wouldn’t tweet truth lie about something like that at all. My guess is one of his PR people thought a little fearmongering might distract from other issues…

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      I remember back when Trump got caught with all those classified docs there was a story about him showing off some about submarines to a rich Australian dude. There was a comment about how everyone in the navy knows that you do not talk about subs. Everything about them is top secret, and if it were anyone else there would be very severe consequences.

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      Boomers (ballistic missile subs) whole raison d’etre is to be the most powerful weapon platform of all time, be anywhere, be undetectable. MAD is predicated on not knowing from where the punch might come. Trump just said, “Sup bitch! We put boomers in your back yard and we’re not afraid to use them!”

      Of all the shit Trump has done, this makes my Gen X gut drop. He’s playing with world-ending apocalypse. The height of the Cold War didn’t see nation states fuck around like this. Never in my life, or history as I know it, has an American President or Soviet/Russian leader stated anything so provocative.

      Hadn’t been too worried about Russia’s nuclear arsenal, but it exists and Ruskies are paranoid bastards. This isn’t brinksmanship, nor Nixon’s madman theory, this is a toddler poking a rabid dog with a stick. And that dog is already starving, ravening and scared shitless.

      “Yeah, we have subs in the Pacific and Eastern Med. I know it. You know it. But now I’m telling you, telling the world.” That’s a fucking threat. In diplomatic terms this states, “Blink and I’ll fucking end you.”

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      What should be a secret? That nuclear (propulsion or arms?) submarines are in appropriate regions? I should hope that that is always the case.

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        I wonder if that means he ordered them to be in the same places they were already planning to be…

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        It’s like Israel’s nuclear capability. They got nukes. I know it. You know it. But in diplomatic terms, no one says it out loud. In diplomatic-speak, this is a fucking in-your-face threat.

        Put it this way, in diplo-speak “condemn” means, “We fittin’ to throw down! SOON!” This threat is an order of magnitude above “condemn”.

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      Considering this, I would normally treat anything said about secret weapons a bluff. But given who’s talking, I’ve no way to tell if it’s stupidity instead

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    Words are very important, and can often lead to unintended consequences, I hope this will not be one of those instances.

    Is he… Is he talking about himself?

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    Social media is not the place to release this type of inflammatory language. This idiot is going to put us in a major conflict. Anything to distract from Epstein. Billionaire narcissists need to be as far away from the levers of power as possible.

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      Honestly this is just standard posturing, no threat. Not revealing exact positions either. Putin probably does this sort of shit daily (not on social media though).

      Anything to distract from more pressing issues as you said.

      And he clearly did not write this one himself.

      Taunting North Korea’s leader in 2017 by calling him “Rocket boy”*, that was a different matter: for a moment we all held our breath. Ultimately nothing happened, he even stumbled into probably his one and only diplomatic win, but still: that was inflammatory.

      * (and any number of similar tweets since then; that was just the first one while in office)

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      I propose a new amendment. A person must be homeless for a presidential term before they can be allowed to serve in a presidential capacity.

      Then the least of us can lead with empathy, at least that is the hope.

      Then maybe we can get fucking health care, including mental health.

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      Nuke subs just means powered by nuclear. They may or not have nuclear weapons.

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        But do you think Trump means it that way? The dude has a hard on for nukes and wants to appear like a big, strong, threatening man (despite his itty bitty nuke chode), so to me it seems more likely that he’s referring to subs with nukes on-board. Assuming there’s any truth to his threat at all, which given the source, does warrant extreme skepticism.

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        NO. Trump means “boomer”, ballistic missile submarines armed with a dozen+ ICBMs whose warheads splits into Multiple Independently-targetable Reentry Vehicles (MIRVs).

        He’s made a clear and present threat: “I just ordered the most powerful weapon platforms into your backyard.”

        They know those boomers are somewhere, easily able to strike Russia. You know it. I know it. But in diplomatic terms, this is the worst threat I’ve heard from the head of a nation state. And I lived the Cold War.

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    Trump’s Truth is a public archive of Donald Trump’s communications on TRUTH Social. We believe this is an essential part of the historical record, and that it must be preserved for its educational, journalistic and research value.

    Ha! Totally agree, yet still somehow tongue in cheek.

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    Why on Earth would you broadcast where you’re putting your nuclear subs? The entire point is for enemies not to know where they are. I mean I assume he’s lying, but fuck.

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      I see nothing in that post that isn’t business as usual - except the fact that Medvedev and Trump, two man babies, apparently got into a fight.

      Submarines are always stationed in “appropriate positions”. This is just deflecting from other issues, you know…

      That said I’m not underestimating the danger the Trump admin poses for the world, generally.

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      Eh, it makes sense as a deterrent. And he didn’t specify where they are. But I don’t think he knows “nuclear submarines” are not nuclear armed submarines. They are just nuclear-powered, meaning they don’t consume oxygen to run (no fuel burned) and don’t need to resurface for a long time.

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        “Nuclear-powered submarine” is basically redundant these days for the US, since they all are and have been since 2007. It can be safely assumed that a reference to a “Nuclear Submarine” in this context is one that is nuclear-armed.

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      Did he? So you know where „appropriate regions“ are? And you think they haven’t been there before?

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      The “boomers” were already within ICBM strike range. This is common knowledge. Saying it out loud is a threat I’ve never heard, not even during the Cold War.