While speaking to George Galloway on his Aug. 3 MOATS show, former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter gave a sober assessment of Trump’s recent threat to deploy two Ohio-class submarines closer to Russia. Excerpts of his comments are included below:
“Mr. Trump deployed or claims to have ordered the deployment or redeployment of two Ohio-class submarines, and this is a very important term that I’m about to use: ‘closer to Russian shores.’ I’ll tell you why this is scary and should scare the daylights out of everybody. ‘Closer to Russian shores’ because of a tweet that Dmitry Medvedev put out in response to mean-tweeting by Lindsey Graham and Donald Trump which sort of hinted at not only the sanctioning of Russia, but also the possibility of a preemptive strike against Russian leadership. And so Medvedev said, ‘Look, you know, this crazy talk. You guys might want to watch The Walking Dead to see what America is going to look like after a nuclear strike. And remember, we have the Dead Hand….’
