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For the first time since the Cold War, according to US President Joe Biden, the world faces a nuclear “Armageddon,” and he is looking for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “off-ramp” from the Ukraine crisis.
At a Democratic party fundraiser in New York, Biden declared, “We have not faced the danger of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis” in 1962.
When Putin makes the threat to use nuclear weapons to continue his invasion of Ukraine, Biden claimed that he is “not joking.”
Speaking to party members at a gathering held at James Murdoch’s Manhattan mansion, the son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, Biden made some unusually direct remarks about the dangers posed by Putin’s nuclear threats.
If things continue on their current course, Biden claimed that “for the first time since the Cuban missile crisis, we have a direct threat from the use of nuclear weapons” (referring to the nuclear standoff caused by the Soviet Union stationing missiles in Cuba, within easy range of the United States).
In an attempt to take control of large swaths of Ukrainian land in the face of resolute opposition from Kyiv, which has the support of the West, Putin has made oblique threats to use nuclear weapons.
These would presumably be tactical attacks of a smaller scale, according to experts. But Biden cautioned that even a targeted strike in a small area ran the risk of starting a larger inferno.
Biden mentioned a man that he knows fairly well. Putin “is not joking when he warns about the potential use of tactical nuclear weapons, biological weapons, or chemical weapons, because his military is, you might say, significantly underperforming.”
As for Putin’s off-ramp, Biden remarked, “I’m trying to figure that out.” “Where does he locate a means of escape? Where does he find himself that he doesn’t lose face, let alone a considerable amount of authority inside Russia?”
