Former President Donald Trump is suggesting that the United States threaten Russian President Vladimir Putin by patrolling the waters on his country’s border with American nuclear submarines.
“I listened to him constantly using the n-word, that’s the n-word, and he’s constantly using it: the nuclear word,” Trump told Fox Business on Monday. “And we say, ‘Oh, he’s a nuclear power.’ But we’re a greater nuclear power. We have the greatest submarines in the world, the most powerful machines ever built.”
“You should say, ‘Look, you mention that word one more time, we’re going to send them over and we’ll be coasting back and forth, up and down your coast,” Trump said. “You can’t let this tragedy continue. You can’t let these, these thousands of people die.”
The Biden administration has sent Ukraine $2 billion in military aid, including missiles to target Russian tanks and ammunition to help the country fight the invading Russian army.
But, Biden has rejected calls to implement a no-fly zone over Ukraine because enforcing it would risk a confrontation between the U.S. and Russia, which the President said would likely lead to “World war III.”
Sending American nuclear submarines to patrol “up and down” Russia’s coast will only escalate global tensions amid Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. Putin would likely see the move as a provocation and would likely respond with an even greater threat or possibly launch an attack on U.S assets.
One question Trumpy.
Why didn’t you do this when Putin was leveling Aleppo?