{"id":61824,"date":"2024-05-30T00:21:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T00:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/30\/from-allies-and-advisers-pressure-grows-on-biden-to-allow-attacks-on-russian-territory\/"},"modified":"2024-05-30T00:21:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T00:21:19","slug":"from-allies-and-advisers-pressure-grows-on-biden-to-allow-attacks-on-russian-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/30\/from-allies-and-advisers-pressure-grows-on-biden-to-allow-attacks-on-russian-territory\/","title":{"rendered":"From Allies and Advisers, Pressure Grows on Biden to Allow Attacks on Russian Territory"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Kremlin, eager to make the choice harder, has leaned heavily into the narrative that the president is risking escalation. Last week, it ran a series of exercises<\/a> over how to move and use its large arsenal of tactical nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n

After Mr. Stoltenberg\u2019s statement to The Economist, the Kremlin\u2019s top spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said that \u201cNATO is flirting with military rhetoric and falling into military ecstasy,\u201d and that the Russian military knew how to respond. Asked if the Western alliance was nearing a direct confrontation with Russia, he said: \u201cThey are not getting close; they are in it.\u201d<\/p>\n

American officials are increasingly dismissing such warnings as empty. Russia, they note, has never taken the risk of attacking the supply of weapons to Ukraine in Poland or elsewhere in NATO territory. President Vladimir V. Putin has done everything he could to avoid direct conflict with the Western alliance, even while showing off his nuclear capabilities or warning, as Mr. Peskov does regularly, that the West was risking turning a regional conflict into World War III.<\/p>\n

\u201cPutin is rattling the nuclear saber to keep Biden from letting U.S. weapons be used to counterattack,\u201d Joseph S. Nye, a former American military official and leader of the National Intelligence Council, said on Tuesday. Mr. Nye, an emeritus professor at Harvard, noted that \u201cwhat you have happening is a nuclear bargaining game, and a credibility game.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPutin has higher stakes in this one, and he will push hard to make Biden swerve first,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

That has been true since the first days of the war, when Mr. Putin ordered nuclear forces to be placed on alert, in an effort to keep NATO from helping Ukraine after the invasion. But after repeated threats from Mr. Putin that he might make use of nuclear weapons, Mr. Biden\u2019s aides seem less and less impressed by the Russian president\u2019s declarations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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