US President Joe Biden said at a Democratic Party fundraiser in New York that Russia’s threats to use nuclear weapons risked humanity as “the end of the world”.
Regarding the nuclear threat, Biden said that for the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, “if things actually continue the way they are, we have a nuclear threat.”
The US president said he knows Russian President Vladimir Putin well and “isn’t kidding when he talks about the possible use of tactical nuclear, biological or chemical weapons.”
The American president added: For the first time since the Cuban missile crisis, there is a direct threat of using nuclear weapons if the situation continues in this way.
From October 14 to 28, 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis raised fears of nuclear war. At the time, photographs taken by an American spy plane showed the presence of Soviet missile launchers in Cuba, Moscow’s ally, reaching American shores.
Faced with stubborn Ukrainian resistance bolstered by Western military aid, Putin hinted at a nuclear bomb in a televised address on September 21. The Russian president said he was ready to use “all the tools” in his arsenal against the West, which he accused of trying to “destroy” Russia.
Experts say that tactical nuclear weapons are probably used in such attacks.
Biden emphasized that Putin “isn’t kidding when he talks about the possible use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons, because his military … is doing very poorly.” “I don’t think there’s anything like an easy use of a tactical nuclear weapon without causing Armageddon,” he said.
For the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, senior administration leaders in Moscow began making explicit nuclear threats, prompting Washington officials to consider several scenarios for responses should Moscow invoke the nuclear option and use a Check tactics. Nuclear weapons to compensate for the defeat in Ukraine.
Putin raised the possibility again in a speech a week ago, describing the United States and NATO as seeking to destroy Russia and reiterating that he would use “all available means” to defend Russian territory, which he said It now includes four provinces. Eastern Ukraine Putin reminded the world of President Harry Truman’s decision to drop atomic weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan 77 years ago, and added: “By the way, they set a precedent.”
Senior US officials say they believe Putin is unlikely to use nuclear weapons and have seen no evidence that he has transferred any of his nuclear weapons. According to the American newspaper “New York”, a recent analysis by the Pentagon shows that the military benefits will be small, while the cost to Putin in an angry international reaction, perhaps even from the Chinese, whose support he desperately needs, could be very high. Bar.”
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