White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said there is no new intelligence suggesting Russia was deploying nuclear weapons. She was speaking with reporters about President Joe Biden’s statement that the US and Russia are approaching armageddon. The comment raised alarms of a potential nuclear war between NATO and Russia.
Biden warned that the world is closer to “Armageddon” now than at any point since the Cuban missile crisis. Putin “is not joking when he talks about potential use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons because his military is, you might say, significantly underperforming,” the President said.
“First time since the Cuban missile crisis, we have a direct threat of the use [of nuclear weapons] if in fact things continue down the path they are going,” he added while speaking at a fundraiser Thursday.
On Friday, Jean-Pierre told reporters “We have not seen any reason to adjust our own strategic nuclear posture, nor do we have an indication that Russia is preparing to imminently use nuclear weapons.”
She appeared to be attempting to downplay concerns raised by Biden’s statement. “He was reinforcing what we have been saying, which is how seriously we take these threats about nuclear weapons,” Jean-Pierre said.
French President Emmanuel Macron was critical of Biden’s remarks saying, “We must speak with prudence.” Speaking to CBS News, former national security advisor John Bolton claimed Biden had “overstated the gravity of the situation we’re in right now” when he suggested the “prospect of Armageddon” is the highest it’s been since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
However, President Vladimir Putin recently threatened to defend Russian territory with Moscow’s full arsenal. Ukrainian forces are currently pushing forward with an offensive in regions claimed by Russia.
Brown University’s Cost of War Project recently conducted a study that found, "[i]f the US and NATO overreact to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with drastic increases in defense spending and conventional forces in Europe, it could push Moscow toward “nuclear escalation,” according to Insider.
Kyle Anzalone is the opinion editor of Antiwar.com, news editor of the Libertarian Institute, and co-host of Conflicts of Interest.
I think Biden let the cat out of the nuclear closet: alive or dead? but near
Armageddon for sure.
Schrodinger’s Arsenal.
Excellent
And yet the media say that Putin “threatens to use nuclear missiles”. His speech was about talk in the U.S. media and political class about using nuclear missiles, and he said that if Russia is attacked, they have modern weapons to defend themselves with. Not even mentioning nukes.
This is like AP writing “Russia may have committed war crimes in Lyman” on the same day the Ukies killed even more people in Donetsk City, which they have been shelling for seven years with U.S. artillery. Even in the war they don’t stop shelling the civilians.
Or like AP writing about “Ukraine’s nuclear energy plant” being shelled – without mentioning the fact that it is held by Russia, and the UN ambassadors have determined, and UK media have admitted, that it is Ukraine that shelled it.
Or like Antony Blinken claiming that “If Russia stops fighting, the war stops, but if Ukraine stops fighting, Ukraine stops!” Cleverly produced line. Except the opposite is true. Russia has repeatedly offered peace in exchange for peace for Donbass as well, and have never wanted to take Ukraine. While it is Zelensky who wants to take Donbass and Crimea. And the war started when he shelled Donbass almost 2,000 times a day in February in preparation for an invasion.
Everything is completely opposite in the media’s reporting.
Including saying Russia is “losing” right now, when they’re killing 5 times as many Ukrainians, only giving up steppe to avoid battle while shelling the Ukies, and every day getting closer to taking Bakhmut, the lynchpin in Ukraine’s occupation of western Donbass. Zel’s “attack everywhere” order was likely made to draw away Russians from their advance on Bakhmut, but they didn’t take the bait. So of course the media mention everything else, but not Bakhmut.
“White House Says Biden’s ‘Armageddon’ Comment Not Based on New Intelligence”
The a$$ hole of obama spews and Joey Biden speaks.
A very clever trick but what is most interesting, is regardless of style, they pretty much say the same thing….
Every time Putin is about to do something big, he delivers a BS message to the Russian people like he did the night before he invaded Ukraine. Remember? After he repeated for months he was not planning to invade Ukraine.
Well, happens to be that before the annexation, he delivered a message to the nation and made very clear he would defend these new stolen land with nukes. Ok, that new contested land is now invaded by Ukraine. If Putin wasn’t bluffing, im pretty sure he is considering a nuclear strike somewhere hence This new West nuclear posture.
It is well known that Russia is a nuclear power and will use nuclear weapons just like the US would. Putin only REMINDED the deranged people in the WH TO NOT FORGET THAT. Not a threat, a REMINDER for the CRAZIES IN D.C. including senile Nancy and all the other A**holes.
Oh yes, Nancy. Wife of a billionaire. Possessor of he best paid of fake boobs on the planet. Idiot.
Who are you calling an idiot?… Oh Nancy. Sorry.
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Wife of a billionaire drunk driver.
Let me guess, he didn’t even spend the night in the drunk tank.
I dont believe Nuclear Powers need to remind each other they have operational nukes. They know that very well.
But it’s ok. You are embarrassed by Putin’s comments therefore you need to come out and make stuff up
I understand.
Like the US DID, Renate!
Horrifying; a war crime, but the “victors” are never accused of such.
And it wasn’t even to conquer Japan. It was a show of force for Stalin’s benefit.
Inaccurate is as polite as I can say it.
Any comment from neutral to negative about Russia coming from me, will be met by push back from you. That’s you and everyone else here and i dont lose any sleep over it.
It’s a blog to vent. Not to change the world. Get a different platform if that’s your objective.
Maybe it wold be for the better to up the restraint ante to tacts. Or perhaps unleash the largest nuclear event ever in Kiev to panic the chickens of The “N” flock? Like the U.S. did in II.. Bad, but a conclusion, hopefully. Perhaps end the penchant to screw around with the peer thermonuclear competitors, especially ones ahead.
Ok, noted, old bear
What idiots would put Zelensky on the list for a peace Nobel Prize? It is a bad joke if that is what it is, a joke, but they already made a joke of the prize when they gave the prize to Obama. Any clown can get honored now.
The man who stated that he was “good at killing”, Mr. Barrack Obama, the same man who escalated the war in Afghanistan, killed American citizens without charges or trial, went after more whistle blowers than his predecessors, presided over the ruination of Libya, received the Nobel. So, yeah you are pretty much on target.
And Obama tripled the use of drones on the Afghan-Pakistan border. Where areas were declared “kill zones,” and any man found inside them could be killed by drones, deemed a Taliban.
And while Obama and Hillary praised the pro-democracy protesters in Egypt … they secretly sent riot gear and tear gas to the dictator.
After Hosni Mubarak won the presidency in the first democratic election, he opened the border to Gaza. That was not allowed. Obama then green lit a coup. The generals control at least a quarter of the Egyptian economy, and mysteriously gas and power were cut off. So instead of going to work, people could join the protests organized by the socialist parties that had lost the election. (Under the dictatorship Egypt had been a member of the Socialist International, same as Algeria, Tunisia and Egypt.) The military used helicopters to drop Egyptian flags for them to hold up when U.S. TV cameras were watching, same as in the 2004 “color revolution” in Ukraine. They then used the protests as an excuse to commit a coup.
Then they machine gunned to death hundreds of pro-democracy civilians. An enormous massacre. And unlike the earlier pro-democracy protests, the media didn’t care now, as Mubarak had opened the border to Gaza.
Obama illegally kept up the transfer of U.S. money to Egypt. It is illegal to give U.S. aid money to a coup regime – so the White House simply didn’t call it a coup. Problem solved. Egypt is the second largest recipient of U.S. “aid,” after Israel, so that they’ll keep the Gaza border closed and starve the Palestinians.
“And Obama tripled the use of drones on the Afghan-Pakistan border. Where areas were declared “kill zones,” and any man found inside them could be killed by drones, deemed a Taliban.”
And Trump lifted Obama’s rules of engagement to make those killings easier.
Love how biden says Putins army is underperforming…..this coming from a military that couldn’t defeat Afghan goat lickers after twenty years….so
Well, Mitt, the Soviets couldn’t defeat those “goat lickers” as you call them and it led directly to the SU’s dissolution. So perhaps them dudes are a bit tougher to beat than you think.
Well, Caliman, there might possibly have been more to the downfall of the Soviet Union than Afghanistan.
Correct.
Of course. But ten years of humiliation for the Red Army in their neighboring country was the last straw. The loss of face for the military establishment who could have stood in Gorby’s way can’t be overestimated.
Why was it the last straw? Collapse of an “empire” requires an awful lot of straws. The Russian economy comes to mind, for one. Just my view, but the Russians show a lot more tolerance for losing face in the eyes of others than, for example, we have.
Afghanistan: the Slayer of Empires.
Oh, but we did defeat Grenada. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
“”Putin “is not joking when he talks about potential use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons””
right then. how many bioweapon labs was uncle sam operating in the ukraine?
Some “news” stations allege they were Russian. To deflect. They were ours.
What’s with the Crimea bridge?
Washington has been bragging about having “all options on the table” for years when discussing Iran, North Korea, or other states that don’t take orders from Washington. But when Putin mentions that Russia has more weapons in its arsenal, the entire “West” acts horrified. Another example of Western arrogance
So when the person in charge says the world is headed toward “Armageddon” how many heads in the room would explode if somebody asked him what he was doing to avoid it? There is in fact essentially no chance the Russians will initiate use of nuclear weapons but we’re being told to expect it by people for whom false flag attacks are routine. Do. The. Math. And so a quick and dirty 20kt goes off somewhere in Ukraine and then what? We can make a few assumptions: 1) Neocon schemes don’t work and this one won’t either, 2) most of the world will see it for the false flag it is, 3) sheeple bleating will go off scale, 4) every nuclear missile, bomber, and submarine crew in the world will go to maximum alert, 5) Putin will do a few shots of vodka, 6) Biden will double his meds, and 7) it gets fuzzy after that.
Biden wants a nuclear war with Russia so he can declare martial law and lock up or shoot the Republicans.
You have to have a country to declare martial law and you have to have Republicans to shoot them.
OT:
WATCH: Assange Protests at UK Parliament & DOJ
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/10/06/watch-assange-protests-at-uk-parliament-doj/
Putin is sure to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine soon because he is losing, and is becoming very desperate. But the real question is what Biden will do afterward. There won’t be Armageddon unless Biden escalates after Putin uses nukes against the Ukrainian Army.
Biden is just as desperate as Putin about his party’s prospects in the Midterm Election. I could see Biden moving to a nuclear war with Russia just so he can declare Martial Law and lock up the Republicans.
You need to back up your statement with facts.
“Putin is sure because …” does rather leave out a lot. For example, some documentation that shows in military terms exactly how “he” is losing, etc, would help to flesh out your point a tad.
Maybe the cat told him.
You never know. Cat’s are smart, but not necessarily world travelers 😉
Was it a Russian Blue? 😁
Dah. Is Russian Blue.
Obviously Zelenski is wining that is why he was begging for a NATO nuclear first strike on Russia. That is what winners do….oh wait what was your argument again?
He did not call for a nuclear first strike; he was asked a question about how he felt NATO could prevent a nuclear attack by Russia and said by “preventive strikes, preventive actions” (per the translator).
By the way, if the water is going so well why did Putin just axe more generals?
I saw what he said, he openly called for NATO to nuke Russia. That is also what Russia heard and they called him on it.
Russia didn’t axe any generals, what makes you think they did? The SMO has been restructured to an Antiterrorist Operation and requires a different structure. Russia has placed an overarching general in charge, this is an indication that the SMO has been hugely increased, ie from 200k troops to 500k troops.
Russia is preparing for war with NATO. Is NATO ready for this war, are you? Russia has 25 million reserves.
Clearly you didn’t watch it. Here’s the entire thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9plcAPFQrHY
Around 20:31, Zelenskyy is asked, “Do you believe that the likelihood of the use of Russian nuclear weapons against Ukraine has risen and what more do you want NATO to do to deter Russia from using nuclear weapons?”
The part of his response quoted here starts around 25:22. “What NATO has to do to prevent and deter the use of nuclear weapons with Russia, what’s important, and I have to underline once again my expectations to the international community, preventive strikes — preventive actions — so that Russia knew what would happen to them and not in return, I mean waiting for the nuclear strikes first and then say what’s going to happen to them.” (Note that the translator corrected himself to translate to “actions” instead of “strikes.”)
The actual word he used was “удар”, which can be translated not just as “strike” but as “hit,” “blow,” “impact” or “shock.”
Are you serious? He said what he said and the implications of it got him in trouble and he had to recant what he said.
Zelenski is unhinged, a psychopath. In any normal functioning society he would be arrested and tried for crimes against humanity. But then so would all the Western leaders, in the west we are not living in normal functioning society’s.
Yes, I’m serious. He didn’t say “preemptive nuclear strike.” Stop acting like chicken little.
I assume they’re talking about Biden’s intelligence in the headline.
Ha, ha, ha! Very funny old bear!
In a way, when it comes to this guy, some lines just write themselves, but thank you 😉
https://bigserge.substack.com/p/politics-by-other-means
Politics by other Means.
If the empire and its proxy try to take Russia’s only warm water major naval base by force, the Russians, who have experienced invasion multiple times at a cost of millions of lives, will use nuclear weapons to break up those formations, and most Russians will support them, as Americans would have supported the nuking of Cuba and Russia in 1962. No hyperbole, just facts. If Biden’s issuing this warning, then he may know about plans for Crimea. This would be madness.
You’d have thought Biden’s words would have elicited some rare bipartisanship outrage. You just can’t talk like that. Impeach. 25th amendment. Anything. Please someone f*cking doing something.
I’d offer a suggestion Wars, but the last time I did my comment was deleted.
Corporations run the world. The sooner we all accept it the better. We will have nothing and be happy. Work will set us free.
I agree, but we should also be prepared to live with air-brain Harris.
Not only is it not based on any “new intelligence”, it’s not based on any intelligence at all… I would never speak of Armageddon, in any manner, especially as a politician. It heightens folks concerns and we have enough to worry about. Armageddon is a word I might expect to hear from some right wing nut but not from a president sitting in office.
We have a bunch of deranged people in charge of the nation and the globe.
The patients are running the asylum.
Isn’t that ‘sick’?!
Yep.
Are they running the place (D.C.) like a tabloid?
Did someone forget to put a fresh roll of toilet paper in the oval office bathroom?… “Armageddon!”
A senile President Biden, an unhinged imbecile Zelinsky, and Imbecile Russophobe neocons like Blinken, Nuland, Sullivan, Kagan clan and all the other deranged neocons in the state department and congress is more than scary.
Deranged Biden in the WH and a deranged Zelensky, the clown, two deranged people at the top and no one to stop them is about as bad as it gets.
We are in real trouble.
It’s a complete lie. The only ones who talk about nukes are in the U.S., all over the media and political establishment. Putin merely RESPONDED to that, saying any nuclear attack on Russia would be met – so the lying socialists of course claim he threatened nukes. When it’s the other way around.
Same: Washington blows up Russia’s pipelines, when Russia is trying to get the social democrats in Germany to stop the sanctions and buy more gas through the pipelines. Then the media say Russia blew up their own pipelines “to deny Europe gas”. And the sheep believe it, because blowing up pipelines is BAD, so it has to be Russia, because they are BAD.
Another lie. Russia kills five Ukie conscripts for every Russian defender of Donbass. They are steadily advancing toward the occupied Russian city Bakhmut, which the Zelensky regime has filled with 30,000 soldiers, as it’s the lynchpin for Zelensky’s occupation of western Donbass. So of course the media don’t talk about it, and instead only mention the worthless steppe Zelensky has taken elsewhere, by sacrificing more than 20,000 conscripts. Their mass rush in other areas are likely meant to try to draw the Russians away from liberating Bakhmut, which failed – Russia expertly avoided battles and withdrew to more easily defended lines. The opposite of Zelensky’s murder of his conscripts by his “defend every square meter!” order. Meanwhile the liberation of Bakhmut continues. When it’s gone, the occupation can’t survive. And then winter comes….
This is from MoonOfAlabama, exposing leftist Biden’s lies. Putin is simply responding to the constant threats against Russia in leftist U.S. media and politics. And the one who makes real nuclear threats is Zelensky, paid by Biden, who wants “pre-emptive strikes” against Russian nuclear sites. He is a criminal who has made himself a dictator by banning all opposition parties and media, and who planned to invade Russian Donbass. Biden is a criminal for supporting him.
Z wants a “preventative” strike on Moscow. Deranged.
Notice: I will no longer be posting comments here. You can stay with Knapp as your guide.
You let Knapp run you out, seriously?
Zelenski is unhinged, a psychopath. In any normal functioning society he would be arrested and tried for crimes against humanity. But then so would all the Western leaders, in the west we are not living in normal functioning society’s.
So Zelenski, a puppet western proxy, threatens a nuclear first strike by the puppet master on Russia and blames the necessity for it on a perceived Russia threat that has never been made. Inviting pre-emptive global destruction (to save the world first we must destroy the world). This is NATO threatening a nuclear first strike on Russia, keep in mind at the same time they are moving nukes to Poland. Have they all gone mad?
Russia has clearly shown in the Donbass that if they believe an attack is coming they will strike first. So obviously the best thing we can do is to make it look like we are going to strike.
No, he didn’t let Knapp drive him out. He decided to leave. I’d rather he didn’t because he sometimes makes worthwhile contributions to the discussions, but that’s up to him. He’s left before and he’s come back before, and if he comes back that will be fine, too.
Yep, just a shame to see anyone leave……btw free speech is the right to offend. So if we get offended maybe someone has thrown some free speech our way……..
Free speech includes the right to offend, but it is not ONLY the right to offend.
By definition anything that doesn’t offend doesn’t need to be defined as free speech.
Cancel culture is requiring any language that offends to have the people saying it removed, ie the end of free speech.
Dont worry though, cancel culture will eventually turn to your speech and cancel you……in the west we are not living in normal functioning society’s.
“Cancel culture” is not requiring the removal of “offensive” speech. It’s holding people accountable for their words and actions. I bet you think CT was “canceled”, huh?
So now you think actions are covered in free speech? And to think you were a journalist, they teach you that in journalism school?
Not only am I a former journalist, I’m a current legal assistant, so yes, I do know my First Amendment. 😘
The First Amendment covers both freedom of speech and freedom of expression. Many of those expressions are in fact actions that are absolutely considered protected (if symbolic) “speech”: burning a flag or a draft card, protesting, contributing money, participating in a sit-in, putting a sign in your front yard, or handing out fliers.
Guess you should’ve gone to journalism school.
Its called cancel culture for a reason duuuhhhhh but you go on supporting “holding people accountable” for what they say. You do understand what fascism is right?
When do the blackshirts (or what ever colour revolution the Oligarchy is running) pay us all a visit?
Free speech is a corner stone of democracy. The answer to bad speech is more free speech. Its stunning i have to point this out, again and again and again.
Free speech is a cornerstone of democracy, absolutely. I am a huge First Amendment fan, particularly as a former newspaper journalist. But freedom of speech protects you from PROSECUTION for your speech. It does not protect you from the CONSEQUENCES of that speech.
Kanye West isn’t going to get arrested for tweeting “when I wake up I’m going death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE” (which he did). But that doesn’t mean he’s going to be protected from people deciding not to buy his music or attend his concerts or follow his social media anymore because they find him objectionable.
The law protects individuals from violence, the law protects people from liable and slander in the civil courts. Cancel culture is persecution for your speech.
I repeat do you understand what fascism is?
I sure do. It’s a political philosophy with a centralized autocratic government, forcible suppression of opposition, and a dictatorial leader.
What fascism is not: Fascism is not someone losing popular support because they espouse views that are offensive or unusual.
What fascism is: Fascism is jailing hundreds to thousands of anti-war protesters.
Fascism is arresting people who refer to a war as a war instead of a “special military action.”
Fascism is declaring that “Roskomnadzor informs the mass media and information resources that when preparing their materials and publications concerning the special operation in connection with the situation in the Luhansk People’s Republic and Donetsk People’s Republic, they are obliged to use information and data obtained by them only from Russian official sources.”
Fascism is blocking social media platforms and independent media because of allegedly “inaccurate information.”
Fascism is passing a law that essentially allows Putin to remain president for life.
Fascism is prohibiting “public insult of a representative of authority in the performance of his official duties or in connection with their performance.”
Fascism is cops taking a young woman at an anti-draft protest into a police van and clearing the area of the bystanders who are recording her screams.
Agree. Thomas and I have had our differences but I like and respect him, even though he never met a hair he didn’t want to split 😉
What the hell does that even mean? Knapp isn’t “guiding” anyone any more than you or any other person making a comment here.
I’m back! For the moron who blocked me nice try.
Another words, He spoke out of his arse…!