The US Now Says Russia Isn’t Going to Nuke the Ukraine

Why are they talking about this so much?

RT:

The US does not see any indications that Russia is getting ready to use its nuclear arsenal in the conflict in Ukraine, White House spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Wednesday. However, he added that Washington considers such a possibility “deeply concerning” and takes it “seriously.”

Earlier on Wednesday, the New York Times published a piece, citing “multiple senior American officials,” who claimed some Russian generals had been discussing “when and how Moscow might use a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine.” Russian President Vladimir Putin was not involved in these discussions, the paper said. The conversations took place at some point in mid-October, it added.

This is not the first time the White House has made such a statement. Last month, Kirby stated that Washington saw no indications that Russia was preparing to deploy a nuclear weapon.

The threat of a nuclear war has been a hot topic recently after Putin vowed to defend Russia’s territory and people using “all the forces and resources we have” in late September. His remarks were then widely interpreted by Western pundits and officials as a veiled nuclear warning, which prompted US President Joe Biden to warn about a potential “nuclear Armageddon.”

That was the actual quote: “Armageddon.”

They are flipping back and forth on this, and they’re flipping back and forth on whether it will be the Ukraine that gets nuked or the US.

Putin was threatening to nuke the US and Europe, which he’s done a lot. He has never threatened to nuke the Ukraine, and it wouldn’t make any sense. But it makes sense for the US to keep saying it, because they want to justify invading the Ukraine with NATO, and they are going to justify that with some kind of nuclear event.