On Sunday, National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby stood by President Joe Biden’s “Armageddon” words from the previous week.
Kirby defended Biden’s comments at a Democratic Party event, in which he implied that the United States was on the edge of a nuclear exchange, on ABC’s “This Week.”
“The president was reflecting the extremely high stakes in play right now,” Kirby told anchor Martha Raddatz. “When you have modern nuclear power and the head of that modern nuclear power prepared to deploy irresponsible rhetoric like Mr. Putin has multiple times in just the last week or two, as well as the rising tensions in Ukraine over the previous few days. And I think the president appropriately reflected that the stakes are pretty high right now.
At a Democratic party fundraiser hosted by media mogul James Murdoch, Vice President Joe Biden said that Russian President Vladimir Putin is “not joking” about the possibility of using “tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons because his military is, you might say, significantly underperforming.”
The last time the world was this close to Armageddon was during the Kennedy administration and the Cuban missile crisis, Biden added. If current trends continue, “[w]e have a direct threat of the use of nuclear weapons.”
In light of the recent $290 million purchase by the United States government of Nplate, a medication used to treat acute radiation sickness, Vice President Joe Biden has issued a warning.
This week, HHS purchased the California firm Amgen.
A department spokesman explained that this is “part of our continuing work for preparedness and radiation security.” “The situation in Ukraine has not accelerated it.”
Biden’s remarks followed a report in the U.K. Telegraph that a Russian military train was bringing nuclear weapons equipment to the front lines of Russia’s war with Ukraine, fueling concerns that Russian President Vladimir Putin was preparing to use nuclear weapons in response to Russia’s mounting military losses.
According to The Telegraph, the train is “managed by the clandestine nuclear division and attached to the 12th major directorate of the Russian ministry of defense.” An image of the train was posted on a Russian propaganda Telegram account, claiming that it was headed to Ukraine from central Russia.