This is a shocking statement made by the president of the United States. Joe Biden ruled Thursday that Russian threats to use nuclear weapons in the Ukraine conflict put the world at risk“apocalypse” for the first time since the Cuban missile crisis in the midst of the Cold War.
Will Putin, when cornered, choose the nuclear option?
“We haven’t faced the prospect of an apocalypse since Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis,” in 1962 he told a fundraiser in New York, during which he believed his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin “I wasn’t kidding” make these threats.
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“There is, for the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis, a direct threat of the use of nuclear weapons if things continue to go as they are.”said the American president.
From 14 to 28 October 1962, the missile crisis installed in Cuba by the Soviet Union and sighted by the United States shook the planet, causing fear of a nuclear war.
Putin’s terrifying suggestions
Faced with stubborn Ukrainian resistance, fueled by Western military aid, Vladimir Putin alluded to the atomic bomb in a televised speech on 21 September. He said he was ready for use “everything means” in his arsenal against the West, which he had accused of wanting “destroy” Russia. “It’s not a bluff”he had assured.
Experts say such attacks would likely involve tactical nuclear weapons, which have a smaller explosive charge than a strategic nuclear weapon. But Joe Biden warned that even a tactical nuclear strike could ignite a wider conflagration.
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“I don’t think you can easily (use) a tactical nuclear weapon without ending up causing the apocalypse”He said.
“Putin is not joking”
Vladimir Poutine “He doesn’t joke when he talks about the potential use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons, because his army, one could say, is very poor”once again he judged the American president.
How to react if Putin (really) uses nuclear weapons
“We are trying to figure out Putin’s way out”finally entrusted to Joe Biden. “How can he get out?” How can he position himself so that he does not lose face or lose a significant part of her power in Russia? “
