Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP In remarks at a private fundraiser on Thursday night, Joe Biden claimed the world was facing the prospect of “Armageddon’ if Russian President Vladimir Putin used a nuclear weapon in Ukraine.
Biden got a scolding from French President Emanuel Macron for even discussing the use of nuclear weapons. “We must speak with prudence when commenting on such matters,” Macron said at the European Union summit in Prague on Friday. He’s right, of course. Nuclear diplomacy is best conducted in the shadows, given the stakes involved. In 1962, John Kennedy and Nikita Kruschev established a “backchannel” — a trusted go-between who delivered private messages to the two leaders. As the two sides “negotiated” in public and at the UN, a deal was sealed behind the scenes.
But just because Putin is running off at the mouth about using nuclear weapons doesn’t mean Biden has […]
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