US President Joe Biden assumes that Russian President Vladimir Putin will not use tactical nuclear weapons in the war with Ukraine. “Well, I don’t think he will,” Biden said in an interview with CNN when asked how realistic he thought Putin would use a tactical nuclear missile. Biden called Putin’s threats to use nuclear weapons “irresponsible”.
As a result, mistakes can be made and judgments wrong. “He cannot talk about the use of a tactical nuclear weapon with impunity as if that is a reasonable thing to do.”
According to Biden, Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin misjudged the war of aggression against Ukraine. “I think he’s a rational player who has significantly miscalculated,” Biden told CNN in an interview scheduled to air Tuesday night (local time/Wednesday 3 am EDT). While he believes Putin is acting rationally, his goals in Ukraine are irrational.
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“If you listen to the speech he made after the decision (to make war on Ukraine), he talked about the whole idea that he was needed to lead a Russia that would unite all Russian speakers. I mean, I agree only unreasonably ,” Biden said, according to CNN.
Biden also said Putin had wrongly assumed that Ukrainians would submit to a Russian invasion. “I think he thought he would be welcomed with open arms, that this was Mother Russia’s home in Kyiv, and that he would be welcomed there, and I think he completely miscalculated,” Biden said.