{"id":1770691,"date":"2022-12-09T12:42:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T17:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1770691"},"modified":"2022-12-09T12:49:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T17:49:23","slug":"putin-says-threat-of-nuclear-war-is-increasing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/putin-says-threat-of-nuclear-war-is-increasing\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin Says Threat of Nuclear War &#8220;Is Increasing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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%2Fputin-says-threat-of-nuclear-war-is-increasing%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=1770691&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:\/\/mediadc.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/4eeb868\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/7152x3755+0+0\/resize\/1200x630!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmediadc-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F4e%2F04%2F740069d04f9fa8dc5a3dea740c04%2Fap22334396272503.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"     style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/russia\">Russian<\/a> President <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/vladimir-putin\">Vladimir Putin<\/a> said the threat of nuclear war \u201cis increasing,\u201d though he also noted that he views the weapons as a deterrent.<\/p>\n<p>The United States and Western leaders have long been concerned about the possibility Putin could approve a tactical nuclear strike during Russia&#8217;s <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/war-in-ukraine\">war in Ukraine<\/a>, and while those fears have ebbed and flowed at times, those concerns have typically increased as Russian forces\u2019 failures in the war continue to pile up.<\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/russia-ukraine-strikes\">RUSSIA LAUNCHES NEW WAVE OF MISSILE ATTACKS ON UKRAINE<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>In a meeting at the Kremlin with Russia&#8217;s Human Rights Council on Wednesday, Putin said, &#8220;In terms of the threat of nuclear war, you are right: Such threat is increasing,\u201d according to <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/europe\/live-news\/russia-ukraine-war-news-12-07-22\/h_9e32121e0e11c3aa4b0a708befaf3f30\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As for the idea that Russia wouldn&#8217;t use such weapons first under any circumstances, then it means we wouldn&#8217;t be able to be the second to use them either \u2014 because the possibility to do so in case of an attack on our territory would be very limited,&#8221; Putin added, &#8220;Nevertheless, we have a strategy. &#8230; Namely, as a defense, we consider weapons of mass destruction, nuclear weapons \u2014 it is all based around the so-called retaliatory strike \u2014 that is, when we are struck, we strike in response.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s nuclear doctrine permits the use of a low-yield nuclear weapon in an \u201cescalate to de-escalate\u201d strategy in which Russia would resort to using such a weapon when facing a significant threat from conventional weapons, under the belief that other countries would not retaliate with another nuclear weapon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will protect our land using all our forces and means at our disposal,&#8221; Putin said in late September, which set off concerns in Kyiv and in Western governments.<\/p>\n<p>In October, President <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a> warned that the deployment of a nuclear weapon could result in &#8220;<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/biden-nuclear-armageddon-russia\">Armageddon<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Biden warned then that for the &#8220;first time since the Cuban missile crisis, we have the direct threat of the use of a nuclear weapon if in fact things continue down the path that they are going,\u201d adding, \u201cI don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s any such thing as the ability to easily [use] a tactical nuclear weapon and not end up with Armageddon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin said the threat of nuclear war \u201cis increasing,\u201d though he also noted that he views the weapons as a deterrent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1896474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[7322,5458,7321,4639,3733,3819,4104,6696],"class_list":["post-1770691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-is","tag-bongino","tag-increasing","tag-nuclear","tag-putin","tag-report","tag-threat","tag-war"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770691","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=1770691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1896474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1770691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1770691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1770691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}