Posted on 03/21/2022 10:21:28 PM PDT by libh8er
Former President Donald Trump said if he were still in the White House, the U.S. would be taking more drastic measures against Russian President Vladimir Putin, going so far as to send nuclear submarines to the country's coast to pressure Russia to back out of Ukraine.
"You should say, 'If you mention that word [nuclear] one more time, we're gonna send [nuclear submarines and planes] over and we'll be coasting back and forth, up and down your coast," Trump told Fox Business on Monday. "You can't let this tragedy continue. You can't let these, these thousands of people die."
The former president said he "listened to [Putin] constantly using the n-word," referring to the world "nuclear," during his dealings with the Russian president but that he hoped he never had to use nuclear weapons because "it would be the tragedy of all tragedies."
Trump's latest comments shift away from the positive comments he made about Putin at the beginning of the war in Ukraine.
A day before Russia launched a full-scale invasion, Trump called Putin a "genius" for recognizing two separatists regions in Ukraine as independent.
"I said, 'How smart is that?' And he's going to go in and be a peacekeeper. That's the strongest peace force," Trump said in an interview on The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show on February 23.
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Well, actually Putin’s roadmap included Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Sweden and Poland.
What is NATO if not a defense arrangement whose founding principle is, and must remain, that if any one of its members is attacked by Russia, they all are compelled to retaliate?
So by definition Putin’s statements indicate he was going to go from country to country in the former Warsaw Pact region on the basis that western European countries in NATO (and America) don’t have the balls to honor their own mutual defense pact.
After all, neither we nor Russia have upheld our solemn pledge to leave Ukraine sovereign and neutral in return for it handing back the Soviet nukes.
No blood for Biden crime family cash!
No he hasn’t
Unfortunately, Trump’s unpredictably is what likely kept Putin out of Ukraine for his 4 years. Now that Russia is already in and bogged down, who knows whether this kind of escalation would end up spiraling out of control.
Trump and Biden ("Putin is a war criminal") are daring Putin to start a nuclear war.
Insane...
I would say all the signs are there to indicate that Putin is no longer a rational actor. Therefore it would be wise for Trump or anybody else to say nothing. Whatever we’re going to do, we need to keep it absolutely quiet. I can’t see that sending nuclear subs to the Russian coast is going to make any difference.
Our leaders are not making any strong suggestions of a framework for a cease fire. Zelensky continues to imagine that we will come riding in to his rescue and that clearly isn’t on the table, so there is nobody of any substance offering Russia a reasonable exit. Wishful thinking is not going to end this crisis. Ukraine will have to give up some things to get this to end, apparently, unless the strategy is to wait for Moscow to undergo internal regime change and call off their operation.
I don’t think we can take that chance, the eventual deal here does not have to be everything Russia demands today, but it cannot be everything Zelensky wants either. While Trump is maybe saying too much, Biden is saying the wrong things too, this is basically like if Winston Churchill had said during the Battle of Britain that obviously Hitler was crazy and a war criminal. He likely thought those things but this is not going to produce the needed result.
This has nothing to do with Ukraine. It is designed to make Bidan look even weaker. He just removed any postering move from the left.
I don’t have it on good authority but if I was a wagering man and I would say the subs are already off the coast and on station.
Sounds just like an actual NeoCon would say something...some of Y’all just can’t help showing how brainwashed you actually are - without even realizing how years of PC propaganda twisted your thinking.
Hardly
Those subs can hit anywhere in the world from anywhere. (Well, the subs do have to be in enough water to float.)
ATTABOY Donald. Keep that POS Putin guessing!
I suppose the good news here is that Brandon now knows that we have nuclear subs.
Putin and his Puffers prefer Biden, as predicted.
Irrelevant saber rattling by a was
The missiles can be shot from all over and being off the coast is not required
No Bainbridge, MD
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