Breitbart.com reports: “Top Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov emphasized in remarks on reporters on Monday that strongman Vladimir Putin fully controls the nation’s foreign policy, apparently dismissing Security Council official Dmitry Medvedev’s regular nuclear threats as irrelevant despite his high status in the Russian government.
Peskov’s remarks were the first official response from the Russian government after President Donald Trump condemned Medvedev on Thursday for repeatedly issuing nuclear threats against the United States and Europe. The next day, Trump announced that he had repositioned American nuclear submarines in ‘appropriate regions’ to respond if the Russian government followed Medvedev’s urging to use its nuclear weapons.
The comments that apparently triggered Trump’s concern were published on the encrypted messaging app Telegram where Medvedev made reference to the ‘dead hand,’ a Soviet nuclear control system.
Peskov appeared to encourage the White House to disregard anything coming out of Medvedev, however, branding him the voice of an extreme, but not dominant, contingent within Russian politics…”
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