BBC Analysis: Why is Russia keep quiet in the face of Trump's nuclear submarine deployment?

In statements to the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets, a military commentator concluded that Trump was “riding a tantrum.”

A retired Lieutenant declared Kommersant that the words of the US president about submarines were “nonsense without meaning. This is how he has fun.”

“I am sure that Trump really did not give any order (on submarines),” said a Russian security expert to the same newspaper.

Kommersant also mentions that in 2017, Trump said he had sent two nuclear submarines to the Korean peninsula as a warning to North Korea.

However, shortly after, Trump met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

So, could the last deployment of donald Trump be strangely be a precursor to a summit between the US and Russia?

But the reaction of the Russian authorities has been interesting. At the time of writing this article, there has been none.

Nor from the Russian Foreign Ministry. Nor of the Ministry of Defense.

And I have not seen any announcement about the positioning of Russian nuclear submarines closer to the US

Which indicates that Moscow is still studying the situation and determining what to do, or that it does not feel the need to react.

The reaction of the Russian press that I mentioned before suggests that it is the latter.

Trump had been arguing with Medvedev for several days on social networks.

After the US President reduced the 50 -day deadline for Russia to end his war in Ukraine, Medvedev published that Trump was “playing the ultimatum with Russia … every new ultimatum is a threat and a step towards war.”

Trump replied: “Tell Medvedev, the former Russian president failed who believes to continue in power, be careful with what he says. He is entering very dangerous territory.”

The following publication of Medvedev contained a reference to “Dead Hand”, the automatic nuclear retaliation system developed in the Soviet Union.

Clearly, that did not feel good about the chief of the White House.

When he was president of Russia, between 2008 and 2012, Medvedev was considered a relatively liberal figure.

“Freedom is better than lack of freedom,” he said famous.

But the former president has become increasingly aggressive. Since the large -scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the reputation of making bombastic and anti -idental publications on social networks has been won. Most of them have gone unnoticed, since it is not considered the voice of the Kremlin.

Suddenly, he has caught the attention of the US president.

And he has not only caught his attention. He has managed to irritate Trump.

One thing is that he dislikes a publication on social networks. We have all gone through that.

But that dislikes him as much as to deploy nuclear submarines seems an exaggeration.

So why has Trump done it?

This is the explanation of Trump himself in his interview with Newsmax: “Medvedev said very bad things when talking about nuclear energy. When you mention the nuclear word, my eyes light up and say that we better be careful, because it is the definitive threat.”

But Medvedev has been accused of threats with the nuclear issue on social networks. It is nothing new.

What is clear is that Trump took the recent medvedev publications very much to chest and reacted accordingly.

Could there be also a strategy at stake? Unpredictability seems to be an important part of Trump's way of acting, both in business and politics; Make unexpected decisions that can destabilize rivals and opponents before conversations or during a negotiation.

For example, about the end of war in Ukraine.

The surprise deployments of submarines could well enter that category.

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