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Eugene

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Sun Aug 3, 2025, 01:50 PM Aug 3

John Bolton Shreds Trump for Going Nuclear on Kremlin Troll [View all]

When John "Bonkers" Bolton calls you out for recklessness, you maybe ought to check yourself. Bolton is not alone on this among the war hawks.

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Source: The Daily Beast

John Bolton Shreds Trump for Going Nuclear on Kremlin Troll

Will Neal
Sat, August 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM EDT
2 min read

President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser has bashed the president for getting drawn into nuclear brinkmanship with Russia.

Trump announced Friday that he had repositioned two nuclear submarines in the region after an incendiary remark from a Kremlin official.

“I think it’s a very risky business for a lot of reasons,” John Bolton told CNN. “It’s really just very ill-advised to have the president responding to somebody like that.”

Bolton further said Trump’s move betrayed his ignorance of how the fleet operates.

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