US President Joe Biden responded with a resounding “no” to the question of whether citizens should be concerned regarding the possibility of nuclear war; though his spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, called Moscow’s nuclear rhetoric “dangerous.”
The United States on Monday downplayed the risk of a nuclear war with Russia and ruled out a possible change in the alert levels of the US arsenal, although he believed that Moscow’s measures in this regard are “dangerous.”
At the end of an act in the White House, the American president, Joe Biden, answered with a resounding “no” to the question of whether the Americans should be worried regarding the possibility of a nuclear war.
Biden did not comment further, but his spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, later analyzed in greater depth the order of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, to put the country’s nuclear potential in a state of alert or “special service regime”.
“We believe that provocative rhetoric regarding nuclear weapons is dangerous and amplifies the risk of miscalculation. It should be avoided, and we are not going to encourage it,” Psaki said at his daily press conference.
“We continue to analyze President Putin’s order and at this time we see no reason to change our own alert levels,” the spokeswoman continued, adding that “a nuclear war cannot be won.”
A US defense source quoted by CNN said Monday that the words Putin used to describe his order – putting Russian deterrent forces on “special duty regime” – are not in Russian military doctrine, and that the US. The US is still studying what they mean.
Russia’s deterrence forces comprise nuclear strategies, including intercontinental missiles, as well as non-nuclear forces, and anti-missile defense, early warning system and anti-aircraft defense.
Psaki also reiterated that the US is not willing to impose a “no-fly zone” in Ukraine to curb Russian bombing, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called for on Monday.
“The president (Biden) has made it very clear that he does not intend to send American troops to fight a war once morest Russia, and a no-fly zone would basically be a step towards that, because it would require deploying the military to apply it,” he stressed.
Hours following the United States sanctioned the Russian central bank, Psaki recalled that although imposing restrictions on Russia’s energy sector would be effective as a retaliation once morest Moscow, for now Washington wants to avoid them because they would have “extreme consequences” on global markets.
“Europeans in particular are very concerned regarding rising (energy) prices,” he stressed.
And following Canada and most European countries closed their airspace to Russian airlines and Russia responded with reciprocal measures, Psaki assured that the United States keeps the option of doing the same “on the table”, but that it has not Took a decision.
“There are a lot of US airline flights flying over Russia to Asia and other parts of the world, so we have to take a number of factors into account,” the spokeswoman said.
