WASHINGTON, April 29 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US President Joe Biden blasted Moscow for “idle comments” on the possible use of nuclear weapons in the Ukraine conflict, saying such talk showed Russia’s “desperation.”
“No one should be making idle comments about the use of nuclear weapons or the possibility that they would use that. It’s irresponsible,” Biden said.
Biden weighed in on Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s nuclear saber rattling, as well as the Kremlin’s latest comments that the U.S. is fighting a ‘proxy’ war in Ukraine.
Biden was asked at the White House Thursday if he was concerned about Putin’s latest comments about the U.S. posture toward Ukraine amid Russia’s invasion. Russia has protested U.S. arms shipments and support.
Biden announced an additional $33 billion in U.S. support on Thursday, as part of a broader effort to send arms, ammunition, and economic support.
‘They’re not true. They do concern me because it shows the desperation and rushes feeling about their abject failure in being able to do what they set out to do in the first instance,’ Biden said.+8View gallery
Moscow seized on Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s comments in Germany this week that the allied effort would ‘weaken’ Russia, which U.S. security officials have long criticized as a malign actor on the world stage.
‘And so, I think it’s more of a reflection of the truth, but of their failure. And so instead of saying that the the Ukrainians are equipped with some capability to resist Russian forces doing this, they’ve got to say, tell the people the United States and all of NATO is engaged in taking out Russian troops and tanks etc.’
‘So it’s number one is an excuse for their failure. But number two, it’s also if they really mean it, it’s it’s … no no one should be making idle comments about the use of nuclear weapons or the possibility of [their] being used. It’s irresponsible,’ he said. — NNN-AGENCIES
