Dmitry Medvedev has traveled a long way from his time as Russian president, when he once stood beside then-US President Barack Obama and declared that “the solution of many world problems depends on the joint will of the United States and Russia.”
This week, in his semi-official role as Kremlin attack dog, Medvedev twice suggested that the administration of President Donald Trump was pushing the US and Russia towards war and warned of Russia’s nuclear capabilities, after Trump suggested he would apply new sanctions on Russia.
While Medvedev is the deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, he wields no executive power. But his provocative comments this week still made a splash.
Medvedev said on Telegram Thursday that Trump should picture the apocalyptic television series “The Walking Dead,” and referred to the Soviet capacity for launching automatic nuclear strikes.
The US president responded Friday by ordering two nuclear submarines to move to “the appropriate regions.”
