President Donald Trump has warned newly-reelected Russian President Vladimir Putin that if Moscow wants an arms race, they will get crushed.
NBC News reports that the threat came in a phone call ostensibly to congratulate Putin on his reelection — which was more or less preordained, since what actual competitor wants to end up with polonium-210 in their vichyssoise?
“Two officials said Trump told Putin during a phone call last week after Putin’s re-election: ‘If you want to have an arms race we can do that, but I’ll win,'” NBC News said.
“Trump added that he hoped that Putin’s comments were just election rhetoric and bragged that he’d just secured a $700 billion defense budget, the largest the U.S. has ever had, he said, according to one of the officials.
“Afterward the president gave no hint of tensions when he told reporters that the two leaders had ‘a very good call’ and that he plans to meet with Putin soon to discuss curtailing an arms race,” NBC added.
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