US President Joe Biden, Russian President Vladimir PutinHe said the threat of nuclear weapons use was the biggest risk since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
While Russia’s attacks against Ukraine on February 24 continued, Russian President Putin declared a partial military mobilization on September 21 and said that the West had escalated the tensions in using nuclear weapons.
Biden said Putin was “not kidding” about using tactical nuclear, biological or chemical weapons, “because the Russian military is “remarkably underperforming”. I don’t think there is such a thing as the ability to use a tactical nuclear weapon and not end up with war. ” said.
“For the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis, we are under a direct threat to the use of nuclear weapons,” Biden said. Using the expression “Armageddon”, which means “great war, apocalypse”, he said, “We have not faced the possibility of Armageddon since the Cuban Missile Crisis.”
BIDEN LOOKING FOR A WAY OUT
Biden added that they are trying to find a way out against Putin.
On the other hand, Putin recently stated that the West is blackmailing Russia with nuclear weapons and said, “We are not bluffing. We have many weapons to respond.”
CUBA MISSILE CRISIS
During the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, then-US President John Kennedy and Soviet Union President Nikita Khrushchev came to the brink of nuclear war because of the Soviet missiles in Cuba.
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