For the President of the United States, Vladimir Putin "is not kidding" when he raises the possibility of "the use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons".
He takes Vladimir Putin 's words very seriously. US President Joe Biden ruled on Thursday, October 6 that Russian threats to use nuclear weapons in the conflict in Ukraine put the world at risk of " apocalypse ". A first since the Cuban missile crisis , in the middle of the Cold War.
" We haven't faced the prospect of an apocalypse since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis " in 1962, the US head of state said during a fundraiser in New York, during which he felt that his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin " is not joking " in making these threats.
As a reminder, from October 14 to 28, 1962, the missile crisis installed in Cuba by the Soviet Union and spotted by the United States shook the planet, raising fears of a nuclear war.
A credible threat in view of Russian setbacks
Facing stubborn Ukrainian resistance , fueled by Western military aid, Vladimir Putin alluded to the atomic bomb in a televised speech on September 21 . He said he was ready to use " all means " in his arsenal against the West, which he accused of wanting to " destroy " Russia. " It's not a bluff ," he assured.
Experts say such attacks would likely employ tactical nuclear weapons, which are smaller in explosive charge than a strategic nuclear weapon.
But Joe Biden has warned that even a tactical nuclear strike could ignite a wider conflagration. " I don't think you can easily (use) a tactical nuclear weapon without ending up causing the apocalypse ," he said.
And yet, Vladimir Putin " is not joking when he talks about the potential use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons, because his army, one could say, is very inefficient ", still judged the president. American. " We are trying to understand what Putin's way out is," Joe Biden finally said. " How can he get out of this?" How can he position himself so that he neither loses face nor loses a significant portion of his power in Russia? For the world, it would be better if the answer to these questions did not include the use of nuclear weapons.
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