{"id":1677323,"date":"2022-10-07T05:20:40","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T09:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1677323"},"modified":"2022-10-07T05:20:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T09:20:51","slug":"biden-compares-putins-alleged-threat-to-use-nuclear-weapons-in-ukraine-to-cuban-missile-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-compares-putins-alleged-threat-to-use-nuclear-weapons-in-ukraine-to-cuban-missile-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Compares Putin\u2019s Alleged Threat to Use Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine to Cuban Missile Crisis"},"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\">30<\/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-compares-putins-alleged-threat-to-use-nuclear-weapons-in-ukraine-to-cuban-missile-crisis%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=1677323&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--><p>U.S. President Joe\u00a0Biden on Thursday night\u00a0compared Russian President Vladimir\u00a0Putin\u2019s alleged threats to use\u00a0nuclear\u00a0weapons in Ukraine to the potential \u201carmageddon\u201d of the Cuban missile crisis of 1962.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Democrat donors, Biden invoked the specter of the Cuban missile crisis while remarking on the state of the Russia\u2013Ukraine war, as Ukraine\u2019s forces recapture more territory in the country\u2019s south.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u00a0said that he and U.S. officials are trying to work out a diplomatic \u201coff-ramp\u201d for Putin as Russia\u2019s invasion is characterized as unraveling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re trying to figure out what is Putin\u2019s off-ramp \u2026 Where does he find a way out? Where does he find himself in a position he does not, not only lose face, but lose significant power in Russia,\u201d\u00a0Biden\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p>The president warned that Putin wasn\u2019t joking when he spoke about the tactical use of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-nuclear-weapons\">nuclear weapons<\/a> in September, calling it the biggest nuclear threat since the October 1962 Cuban missile crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Putin\u2019s]\u00a0not joking when he talks about [the] potential use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons, because his military is, you might say, is significantly underperforming,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>Biden said that \u201cfor the first time since the Cuban missile crisis, we have a direct threat to the use of nuclear weapons\u201d if things continue \u201cdown the path\u201d they\u2019re going.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have not faced the prospect of armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Cuban missile crisis was a 35-day standoff in October 1962 between the Soviet Union and the United States, which came close to using\u00a0nuclear\u00a0weapons in response to the presence of Soviet\u00a0missiles in Cuba.<\/p>\n<p> What Putin Said <\/p>\n<p>While Putin\u2019s remarks in September suggested that Russia would use all weapons in its arsenal\u00a0against Ukraine in order to defend its territorial integrity, he did not specifically call for using nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>However, other Russian authorities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Joe\u00a0Biden on Thursday night\u00a0compared Russian President Vladimir\u00a0Putin\u2019s alleged threats to use\u00a0nuclear\u00a0weapons in Ukraine to the potential \u201carmageddon\u201d of the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. Speaking to Democrat donors, Biden invoked the specter of the Cuban missile crisis while remarking on the state of the Russia\u2013Ukraine war, as Ukraine\u2019s forces recapture more territory in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":618,"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-1677323","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\/1677323","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\/618"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1677323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677323\/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=1677323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1677323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1677323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}