President Joe Biden said the world is facing the possibility of a nuclear war for the first time since the Cuban missile crisis during a by–invitation Democratic Party event in New York City on Thursday, as quoted by the White House press corps. Biden
spoke at the home of Rupert Murdoch’s son James. Today, White house press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre played down Biden’s remarks by saying, there is nothing new in U.S. force posture, nor in evidence of Russia’s likelihood of resorting to nuclear weapons use, but Biden was just “reinforcing what we have been saying, which is how seriously we take these threats about nuclear weapons.” This was then relayed out in all the major US media from CNN to Reuters.
Biden said in New York, “First time since the Cuban missile crisis, we have a direct threat of the use of nuclear weapons, if, in fact, things continue down the path they are going,” as reported by TASS.
Biden said that he knows the Russian leader “fairly well” and that is why he thinks that Putin “is not joking when he talks about potential use of tactical nuclear weapons.”
