US President Joe Biden said on Thursday that the world is under the threat of a nuclear “Armageddon” for the first time since the Cold War.
“We haven’t faced a possible Armageddon since Kennedy and the missile crisis. [de Cuba em 1962]Biden said at a Democratic Party fundraiser in New York.
According to the US president, Russian President Vladimir Putin is “not kidding” when he threatens to use nuclear weapons to continue his invasion of Ukraine.
Biden made unusually strong comments about the risks posed by Putin’s nuclear threats while speaking to Democratic supporters at the Manhattan home of media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s son, James Murdoch.
Biden referred to the nuclear war launched by the then Soviet Union by installing missiles at Cuba close to US soil.
For the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis, we face a direct threat from the use of nuclear weapons, if things continue as they are.
US President Joe Biden at the Democratic Party event in New York
Putin has made thinly veiled threats to use nuclear weapons if he believes Ukraine has run out of options to contain strong resistance in Western-backed Kiev.
Experts believe that tactical attacks are possible with relatively small arms. But Biden warned that even a tactical strike in a confined area could lead to a larger conflict.
“There’s a guy there that I know very well,” Biden said, referring to Putin. The Russian president “is not kidding when he talks about the potential use of tactical nuclear weapons, chemical or biological weapons, because his military, let’s say, is significantly less capable.”
“However, I don’t think there is any possibility of easy use of a tactical nuclear weapon without resulting in Armageddon,” Biden warned.
I’m trying to find out what Putin’s way out is. Where can he find a way out? It is in a position where it will lose not only its prestige but also its important power in Russia,” he said.
source: Noticias
