In his first sit-down interview in six months, Biden said he thinks Putin is bluffing on nukes but that he’s alarmed at the Russian president’s bluster.
President Joe Biden doesn’t believe that Russia will resort to using nuclear weapons in Ukraine, he said in an interview on Tuesday, but the possibility of “a horrible outcome” in the war has prompted the Pentagon to game out the U.S. response to their use.
In the interview, conducted in the Map Room of the White House shortly after Biden met with the Group of Seven leaders to discuss, the president accused Putin of having committed war crimes in the eight months since Russia invaded neighboring Ukraine, and said that he doesn’t “see any rationale” to meet with him.
Putin, Biden said, has backed himself into a corner, but still has a way out without resorting to using atomic weapons, as Putin has“He could just flat leave and still probably hold his position together in Russia,” Biden suggested. “I’m not going to get into what I’d consider and what I have in mind,” Biden said of Saudi Arabia after Tapper asked if Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had “played” him during a recent trip to the kingdom in which Biden wasBiden was more confident when discussing domestic rivals, telling Tapper that he was sure that the Democratic Party has a solid record ahead of the midterm elections.
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