{"id":1348658,"date":"2022-02-28T08:31:17","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T13:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1348658"},"modified":"2022-02-28T08:37:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T13:37:51","slug":"biden-remained-home-in-delaware-over-the-weekend-as-ukraine-russia-crisis-intensified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-remained-home-in-delaware-over-the-weekend-as-ukraine-russia-crisis-intensified\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Remained Home in Delaware Over the Weekend as Ukraine-Russia Crisis Intensified"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-remained-home-in-delaware-over-the-weekend-as-ukraine-russia-crisis-intensified%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1348658&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.rebelmouse.io\/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yOTQzODk3OS9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY4NzYzMzAxN30.gbu9eWrYD4E35DLdSMU4DhJtNT0UZs_rqHw2VHu3JBA\/img.jpg?width=1200&#038;coordinates=0%2C94%2C0%2C77&#038;height=600\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Despite the Russian invasion of Ukraine continuing to escalate, President Joe Biden remains at his private estate in Delaware.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/biden-in-delaware-as-putin-raises-alert-status-of-nuclear-weapons\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> that Biden remains at his private residence in Delaware and that the media is having difficulty making contact with the administration.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian military command to put Russia&#8217;s nuclear deterrence forces on high alert. <\/p>\n<p>Putin blamed &#8220;aggressive&#8221; rhetoric from NATO members and thoroughgoing economic sanctions against Russia for why he chose to increase Russia&#8217;s preparedness to use nuclear weapons. <\/p>\n<p>Putin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/vladimir-putin-nuclear-deterrence-forces-russia\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>, &#8220;Western countries aren&#8217;t only taking unfriendly actions against our country in the economic sphere, but top officials from leading NATO members made aggressive statements regarding our country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Senior officials of the leading NATO countries also allow aggressive statements against our country,&#8221; the Russian president continued, &#8220;Therefore I order the minister of defense and the chief of the general staff [of the Russian armed forces] to transfer the deterrence forces of the Russian army to a special mode of combat duty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Putin warned that countries who interfere with the Russian invasion of Ukraine will face &#8220;consequences you have never seen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rebekah Koffler, a former DIA intelligence officer, said, &#8220;[Putin] is right now threatening a nuclear escalation. This is a veiled threat \u2013 or maybe such a veiled threat \u2013 he just met with his chief of general staff and minister of defense. He is escalating the conflict into the nuclear domain in order to de-escalate \u2013 that is, topple Kyiv&#8217;s regime quickly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said, &#8220;It is not entirely clear if Mr. Putin has designs beyond the Ukraine, and it&#8217;s because that&#8217;s not perfectly clear that we continue to look for ways to bolster our NATO capabilities and to reassure our allies. I mean, one of the reasons we&#8217;re doing this is because we want to make it clear to him that we will defend every inch of NATO territory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Republican congressman from Illinois, Adam Kinzinger, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamKinzinger\/status\/1497935334751055880?s=20&#038;t=-N2tzMeqhgmUYv2f6pas2Q\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">referred<\/a> to Putin&#8217;s nuclear escalation as a &#8220;bluff&#8221; and suggested that Putin was merely posturing to make people fear Russia&#8217;s capabilities. <\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;This breathlessness over nukes is mind blowing. We used to call his bluff. This is the Soviet Cold War play to make the public fear Russia.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Western leaders issued a joint statement committing them to ending Russia&#8217;s ability to access and use the SWIFT financial telecommunication network. By doing so, the West isolated Russia&#8217;s economy, making it virtually impossible for them to conduct trade with their international partners. <\/p>\n<p>Removing Russia from SWIFT will hurt the country&#8217;s ability to export fossil fuels and natural gas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the Russian invasion of Ukraine continuing to escalate, President Joe Biden remains at his private estate in Delaware.Fox News reported that Biden remains at his private residence in Delaware<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1348658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1348658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1348658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1348658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}