Risk of a “Nuclear Armageddon”: Biden raises the alarm
Washington – There is the risk of a “nuclear Armageddon“. Joe Biden first evoked the concrete possibility that Vladimir Putin, tight on the military corner in Ukraine and in the face of internal difficulties in Russia, may have recourse to nuclear weapons. Until now, the president of the United States had been very cautious in dealing with the subject.
Recently, in his speech at the UN General Assembly, Biden had instructed that nuclear war cannot be won and must not be fought. For this, the alarm of him was welcomed with renewed, both in America and in Europe, after the British Times in recent days spoke of an alert had gone off among the NATO countries. The White House was quick to throw water on the fire, pointing out that there are no new signs that portend Russia’s use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine. The United States, therefore, at the moment it is not intended to change one’s nuclear posture.
However, a background published by the Washington Post indicates that Putin’s leadership, according to US intelligence, is no longer so strong. Inside the Kremlin, i loyal of the Russian president they would be putting questioning his conduct of the war. A Putin cornered, is the reasoning, it’s even more dangerous of the version we have known So far and, as a last attempt to get out of the Ukrainian quagmire, could really resort to nuclear weapons.
The United States and NATO, at that point, released forced to respondwith the risk of auncontrollable escalation. This is perhaps what Biden was thinking when he summoned Armageddon. The world, the president said, is on the brink of a catastrophe such as not occurred since the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. At the time, the United States and the then Soviet each knew how to take a step back.
The correspondence from Washington by Marco Liconti (LA PRESSE)