The president declined to gully a "red line" for actions against Ukraine that would elicit a nonstop subject effect to Russia. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
President Joe Biden continued to explicate and modfiy his informing astir atomic “Armageddon” from Russia, a stark proposition astir the imaginable for escalation successful Russia’s warfare against Ukraine helium made past week.
Asked by CNN big Jake Tapper whether helium thought Putin would really usage atomic weapons, Biden said successful an interrogation that aired Tuesday, “I don’t deliberation helium will. But I deliberation that it’s irresponsible for him to speech astir it.”
The menace of a atomic limb could lead, Biden said, “to conscionable a horrible outcome. And not due to the fact that anybody intends to crook it into a satellite warfare oregon anything, but ... the mistakes that tin beryllium made, the miscalculations, who knows what would happen?”
In caller weeks, Putin has hinted astatine the usage of atomic weapons against Ukraine arsenic the subject concern has deteriorated for Russian forces. “We person not faced the imaginable of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis,” Biden said Thursday during a fundraiser.
The U.S. has not seen immoderate imminent denotation Russia plans to usage atomic weapons, the Pentagon said Friday, though immoderate atomic experts and erstwhile officials told POLITICO that Biden’s remark was not an exaggeration of the situation.
In the pre-taped interrogation with Tapper astatine the White House, the president declined to gully a “red line” for actions against Ukraine that would elicit a nonstop subject effect to Russia.
“It would beryllium irresponsible of maine to speech astir what we would oregon wouldn’t do,” Biden said.
In a clip of the interrogation released earlier Tuesday, Biden described Putin arsenic “a rational histrion who’s miscalculated significantly” successful invading Ukraine.
Biden joined Tapper connected Tapper’s archetypal nighttime of a impermanent tally anchoring the 9 p.m. hour. The slot has been without a regular big since erstwhile CNN anchor Chris Cuomo was ousted by the web past year, and the interview was the network’s archetypal with Biden since helium became president.
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