NUCLEAR DETERRENCE 101: “Tell them St Petersburg is armed and ready! Armed and ready with fishing poles and cast nets! We’ll throw a friggin’ mullet at ’em!”

Russia’s favourite arch-enemy and its looney tunes president have been rather quiet lately on the ‘let’s threaten Armageddon’ front.

Kim Jong-un rarely rates a tweet from Donald Trump these days.

So during his own 2018 presidential re-election campaign Vladimir Putin attempted to rattle the United States of America into a response…..

https://youtu.be/Sn_TDQbcUiA

An eminently sensible reply from an ordinary American swiftly followed…..

“Tell them St Petersburg is armed and ready! Armed and ready with fishing poles and cast nets! We’ll throw a friggin’ mullet at ’em!” [The Guardian, 2 March 2018]

US President Donald Trump’s response was somewhat muted…….

[presidential dead silence]

Poor Putin. It’s hard to re-ignite the classic Cold War arch-enemy rhetoric when your American 'puppet' is so determined to publicly avoid criticising Russia.

Though perhaps the sight of Trump running scared on Twitter works just as well on the Russian domestic front.