Ukraine: Biden Responds To Putin On Prospects Of Nuclear War

US President Joe Biden has warned that the risk of a nuclear war which he termed as “Armageddon” is at its highest level since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis in the aftermath of continuing rout of forces sent by Vladimir Putin into Ukraine.

GWG.NG reports that the American president spoke against the background of recent reverses suffered by Russia in the Ukraine war and the claims by Russian President Vladimir Putin that the US had created the precedent of the use of a nuclear option in Japan at the end of the Second World War.

According to Biden Putin was “not joking” when he spoke of using tactical nuclear weapons after suffering setbacks in the invasion of Ukraine, “because his military is significantly underperforming”.

“For the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis, we have a direct threat to the use of nuclear weapons, if in fact things continue down the path they’d been going,” Mr Biden told fellow Democrats adding that the US is “trying to figure out” Putin’s way out of the war.

“We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis.”

“We’ve got a guy I know fairly well,” Biden said, referring to the Russian president. “He’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.”

Biden spoke on the prospects of a nuclear war at the New York home of James Murdoch, son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, during a Democratic fundraising event.

If Russia did use a nuclear weapon, it would leave the US and its allies with the dilemma of how to respond, with most experts and former officials predicting that if Washington struck back militarily, it would most likely be with conventional weapons, to try to avert rapid escalation to an all-out nuclear war. But Biden said on Thursday night: “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.”

“First time since the Cuban missile crisis, we have the threat of a nuclear weapon if in fact things continue down the path they are going,” the president said. “We are trying to figure out what is Putin’s off-ramp? Where does he find a way out? Where does he find himself where he does not only lose face but significant power?”

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