The US president said the world is closer to a nuclear catastrophe in the past sixty years.
On October 6, US President Joe Biden harshly warned Russian President Vladimir Putin that nuclear threats were real as he continued to face military setbacks in Ukraine.
Speaking of which in shape CNN, citing a speech by the American leader at a Democratic Party charity event in New York.
“We haven’t addressed the Armageddon perspective since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis,” said Joe Biden.
As you know, for the first time the threat of a nuclear war between the United States and the USSR arose exactly 60 years ago, in October 1962, when John F. Kennedy was the American president and Nikita Khrushchev was the Communist leader of the Soviet Union. .
“We have a guy I know quite well. He’s not kidding when he talks about the potential use of tactical nuclear weapons, biological or chemical weapons, because his army can be said to be remarkably ineffective,” said Joe Biden in his speech, referring to the failures. Putin in his war in Ukraine.
At the same time, he added that it does not imply the possibility of “easily [использовать] tactical nuclear weapons “so that it does not end in a global Armageddon.
“Are we trying to understand how far Putin will go? Where will he stop? How will he behave when he not only loses face, but also significant power?” – said the President of the United States.
American intelligence agencies believe that Putin has begun to perceive defeat in Ukraine as an existential threat to his regime, which he associates with the threat to Russia’s existence. And this allows him, according to his world view, to justify the use of nuclear weapons.
Recall that since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, the United States has developed contingency plans, in particular nuclear threats.
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