Independent: Joe Biden says Russia’s Vladimir Putin not planning to use nuclear weapons to invade Ukraine
Joe Biden has said he does not believe Vladimir Putin is planning to use nuclear weapons if the Russian leader decides to invade Ukraine.
A day after America’s top diplomat said any attack by Russia could go beyond the use of “conventional” weapons, and even claimed it could involve chemical weapons, Mr Biden said he did not believe nuclear weapons would be involved.
Speaking at the White House, where he outlined conversations he had earlier in the day with European leaders, the president was asked his reaction to the fact Mr Putin was reportedly planning to spend the weekend overseeing nuclear drills.
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WNU Editor: Putin is not going to order a nuclear strike against Ukraine. Especially since Russian conventional forces will be more than enough to overcome all Ukraine defenses.
My biggest fear is that a Russian invasion of Ukraine results in someone exploding a nuclear device in the middle of Moscow or Saint Petersburg.
There was a time that Ukraine hosted a lot of nuclear weapons. Were all of them removed?
You can take this to the bank. If such a horrible event does occur, the Russian leadership are going to blame everyone, and all bets will be off in that eventuality.
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President Biden Doesn't Think
President Biden should put everything on the table to force Putin to fold.
That includes global thermo-nuclear war. That includes troops on the front line. If a rogue nuke going off in Moscow or St Petersburg is a 1% chance or more, then putting American nukes on the line is the lesser risk.
I just got off the phone with someone. I told them the Russians should have joined the EU. The reason being that by 2030 or 2050 Russia would be big and rich enough that it would lead the EU. NATO would fall by the wayside.
But Putin was trained as a lawyer and a KGB agent. It would be hard for him to betray his DNA. People often act like they train. Read an article about Putin and some problem or other and his legal training was apparent. That was admirable. Still his experience an training is limited. He is bigoted.
In the phone call I also opined that unlike Merkel having to learn Russian because she had to, of Russia were in the EU with all the people it has and the wealth that people would learn Russian, because they would not want to miss out on a deal.
There is more than one way to skin a cat. All Putin knows is war, spycraft and hybrid war.
Bigot
I don't think nukes will come into play for an invasion force. A Russian invasion by ground forces from across the compass will be impossible to defend against let alone with paratrooper & air assault infantry being involved. Nukes might go off if there is a mistake by a computer, or a group may think they can do so & get away with it. Keep ducking 🙈
After Trump derided and weakened the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Biden has rallied NATO on Ukraine's behalf.
After Trump pressured Russia's beleaguered neighbor for his personal benefit, Biden has steeled Americans for shared sacrifice in defense of Ukraine's right of self-determination.
After Trump deferred to Russian President Vladimir Putin over the US government's own intelligence agencies, Biden has deployed those agencies' tradecraft in a multi-pronged transatlantic effort to deter Russian aggression.
"You couldn't get a sharper contrast," Hill observed in an interview.
For the moment, at least, she sees Biden's approach paying some dividends.
As described in her recent memoir, There Is Nothing For You Here, Hill followed an unusual path to becoming one of America's leading experts on Russia. Raised in a working-class family in Britain, she parlayed academic scholarships into advanced degrees from Harvard and an analyst's job at the National Intelligence Council beginning in 2006 during President George W. Bush's administration.
Witnessing Britain's industrial decline helped her understand the populist appeals Trump rode to the White House. But the celebrity real-estate developer's handling of foreign policy in the Oval Office -- driven not by expertise or the national interest but by his personal experiences, impulses and interests -- was like nothing Hill or her national security colleagues had ever seen.
"There's no Team America for Trump," Hill recalled. "Not once did I see him do anything to put America first. Not once. Not for a single second."
It showed in Trump's praise for the authoritarian leader of Russia, an American adversary that had boosted his finances as a business executive. It showed in his reluctance to embrace America's mutual defense commitments to European allies, which for decades have constrained Russian behavior; instead, Trump treated NATO as what Hill called a "protection racket."
Most notoriously, it showed in Trump's attempt to squeeze Ukraine's President for manufactured dirt on Biden to help his 2020 election campaign. He held up American military aid as a political lever as Ukraine faced the long-running Russian military threat that now has the entire world on edge.
"All this did was say to Russia that Ukraine was a playground," Hill said.
"After Trump derided and weakened the North Atlantic Treaty Organization,"
No, Trump berated a slacker namely Merkel, who broke contractual agreements and underfunded her military.
But keep up that copy and paste, boi.
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