The Trump Administration Moves Submarines a Few Spaces Forward in the Geopolitical Board Game, As Russia and China Conduct Exercises

Over the weekend, President Donald Trump got into a war of words with Russian Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev (also formerly the president and prime minister of Russia) and announced that he was deploying two nuclear-powered submarines to “appropriate regions.” Though it is unclear whether the Navy vessels will be Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarines (armed with nuclear weapons), guided-missile (with Tomahawk cruise missiles) submarines, or fast-attack submarines (Virginia, Los Angeles, or Seawolf classes); this is a provocative move. The current administration is playing nicely into the elites’ plans, and it has thus far not resisted the temptation, which the Joe Biden administration also fell into, to maneuver us into World War III.

There seems to be two sets of social media posts that triggered President Trump, but the more important aspect of this is: why would you play war games because a Russian official says some words that you do not like? If you bought a guard dog to protect your property from your neighbor, would you then go and unleash the dog to encircle and threaten the neighbor and his property because he made some “inflammatory statements?” The proper course of action would be to increase the security at home but not to incite further conflict. Then, why would it be appropriate to send out submarine guard dogs into foreign oceans to intimidate Russia because of social media posts?

The drama seems to have started when President Trump posted on Truth Social that he believes that Russia and India will “take their dead economies down together.” Medvedev then responded by saying that Trump should “revisit his favorite movies about the living dead and recall just how dangerous the mythical ‘Dead Hand’ can be” (referring to the Soviet Union’s nuclear weapons control system).

Further statements regarded the new fifty-day window that President Trump placed on Russia to end the war in Ukraine or face additional sanctions. Trump decided to arbitrarily change the deadline to ten or twelve days (now August 8) because there was no “progress being made,” and Medvedev responded with, “Trump’s playing the ultimatum game with Russia: 50 days or 10 … He should remember 2 things: 1. Russia isn't Israel or even Iran. 2. Each new ultimatum is a threat and a step towards war. Not between Russia and Ukraine, but with his own country.” These statements were what prompted the move of nuclear submarines, and if something so childish would cause this deployment, what happens when the United States and Russia have a physical exchange? Perhaps the president thrives on high school theatrics, but who is the one really “gambling with World War Three” and putting the lives of Americans on the line?

It is not just the submarine maneuver across the geopolitical board game that is concerning, and Russia and China are conducting naval exercises to counter American drills and patrols in Japan, South Korea, the East China Sea, and the South China Sea. As China’s defense ministry spokesman, Zhang Xiaogang, said, “The US has been blindly flexing its muscles in the Asia-Pacific region and attempting to use military drills as a pretext to gang up, intimidate and pressure other countries, and undermine peace and stability in the region.” Japan has criticized these drills in the Sea of Japan and in the Russian port city of Vladivostok (just across the sea from the island of Honshu, which contains about fourth-fifths of the Japanese population), but there is not much of a leg to stand on because it also participates in similar events with the United States (Russia and China object to those). The Russian-Chinese Joint Sea-2025 exercises, Maritime Interaction 2025, involve “submarine rescue, joint anti-submarine, air defence and anti-missile operations, and maritime combat,” as well as Chinese guided-missile destroyers and ships from the Russian Pacific Fleet.

Though it is not uncommon for Russia and China to engage in exercises together, and these have begun in 2012, it is disappointing that the march toward World War III has not ceased with the current American president, despite the campaign promises. This just further illustrates that both the Republican and Democratic Parties are captured by the same globalist interests and that President Trump has either been compromised or never really intended to fight against the powers that be. Either way, these are little strategic moves that have been building up for years, and whether future historians classify Cold War II to have started in 2012, 2013, 2014, or 2015, the hot war phase of this could kick off within the next few months to years if we are not careful.

The powers that be have hijacked the United States government and turned it into the American Empire, and they will not let other large powers threaten the dominance that has been enjoyed since the fall of the Soviet Union. This machine is willing to sacrifice the lives of Americans and other countries to maintain control over the military and economic spheres, and the elites can scurry away to their bunkers and underground cities like the little cockroaches that they are, while we the people suffer from the calamity that they caused.

The only true way to prevent this is for the people to stand up against their governments, whether it is Americans to the United States government, Russians to the Russian government, or Chinese to the Chinese government. If the common people refused to support the war effort and the soldiers laid down their weapons and refused to fight, there would be nobody to play the war games. Does anyone genuinely think that the average person in Russia or China is our enemy? No, it is the governments of all three countries that manipulate their citizens to hate each other. If no governments existed, there would be no conflict between the United States and Russia and China. Governments war against each other, often on behalf of corporate interests, and it is the average people who suffer.

Speak out against the Trump administration and hold the president accountable to his campaign promises of ending the wars. Transporting submarines near Russia or aircraft carriers near Iran or patrols in the South China Sea are provocative moves that do nothing to promote peace. It is time that we put the American Empire to bed and make the United States a noninterventionist state focused on domestic strength, free trade with all nations, and defensive capabilities (not offensive ones).

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