Putin is “not joking” when he threatens to make use of nuclear weapons to pursue his invasion of Ukraine, Biden mentioned.
Biden made his unusually sturdy feedback in regards to the dangers created by Putin’s nuclear threats whereas talking to get together supporters at an occasion hosted in the Manhattan residence of James Murdoch, son of newspaper mogul Rupert Murdoch.
Referring to the nuclear standoff triggered by the Soviet Union stationing missiles in Cuba, inside simple vary of the United States, Biden mentioned that for the “first time since the Cuban missile crisis, we have a direct threat from the use of nuclear weapons if in fact things continue down the path they are going.”
Putin has made thinly veiled threats to make use of nuclear weapons if he feels he has run out of choices in his bid to grab swaths of Ukrainian territory in the face of stiff resistance by Western-back Kyiv.
Experts say these would most probably be comparatively small, tactical strikes. But Biden warned {that a} tactical strike in a restricted space would nonetheless danger triggering a wider conflagration.
“We’ve got a guy I know fairly well,” Biden mentioned. Putin’s “not joking when he talks about potential use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons, because his military is, you might say, significantly underperforming.”
However, “I don’t think there’s any such thing as the ability to easily (use) a tactical nuclear weapon and not end up with Armageddon,” Biden mentioned.
“I’m trying to figure out what is Putin’s off-ramp,” Biden mentioned. “Where does he find a way out? Where does he find himself in a position that he does not, not only lose face, but lose significant power within Russia?”
