Medvedev fired again in an August 4 submit on X: “The Russian International Ministry’s assertion on the withdrawal of the moratorium on the deployment of medium and short-range missiles is the results of NATO international locations’ anti-Russian coverage.”
He additional threatened: “This can be a new actuality all our opponents must reckon with. Anticipate additional steps.”
Medvedev’s menacing feedback got here every week after he rattled his sword at Trump in one other taunt, after the president gave Russia a 50-day deadline to finish its warfare with Ukraine.
“Trump’s enjoying the ultimatum sport with Russia: 50 days or 10… He ought to keep in mind 2 issues: 1. Russia is not Israel and even Iran. 2. Every new ultimatum is a menace and a step in direction of warfare. Not between Russia and Ukraine, however along with his personal nation,” the previous Russian president wrote in a July 28 submit on X.
Putin’s spokesperson downplayed Medvedev’s ominous feedback, stating: “Pay attention, in each nation, members of the nation’s management have totally different factors of view on present occasions, have totally different attitudes. There are individuals with a hardline perspective within the U.S. and in European international locations. That is at all times the case.
“However the principle factor, in fact, is the place of President Putin. You realize that in our nation, international coverage is formulated by the pinnacle of state, that’s, President Putin.”
So far as Trump’s daring transfer with the nuclear subs, the spokesman retorted: “It’s apparent that American submarines are already on fight responsibility. That is an ongoing course of,” including that “Russia may be very attentive to the subject of nuclear non-proliferation. And, in fact, we imagine that everybody must be very, very cautious with nuclear rhetoric.”