READ HERE: It’s probably not a good thing when the verbal brinkmanship which has long been on display between the world’s nuclear superpowers sees outspoken Russian hawk and firebrand Dmitri Medvedev directly clash with President Trump.

President Trump, in an unusual direct call-out of the Kremlin national security official (for the second time, after an earlier July exchange of words) – and which was issued on Truth Social at midnight – called Medvedev a “failed former President of Russia” who had better “watch his words.”