Following Vladimir Putin's decision to put Moscow's deterrent forces on alert, should we be worried about a nuclear war?
For Joe Biden the answer is clear: it is “no”.
The United States wanted to put the risk of a nuclear confrontation with Russia into perspective on Monday, ensuring that it had not seen any "concrete" movement.
While denouncing “unnecessary and dangerous provocative rhetoric”, which “increases the risk of an incident”, American diplomacy seemed to minimize the threat and to want to avoid responding to it.
"We see no reason to change our own alert levels," said State Department spokesman Ned Price.
"We have not changed our own posture," confirmed his White House colleague, Jen Psaki, claiming to want to "lower tensions".
A senior Pentagon official for his part explained that Washington was "in the process" of analyzing the announcement of the master of the Kremlin.
"I don't think we saw anything concrete as a result of his decision.
At least not yet,” he added.
This official also acknowledged that it was "difficult to know what was behind Vladimir Putin's order".
But "the simple fact of evoking" or "threatening" a "use of nuclear forces" is "useless and represents a significant escalation", lamented this official, reaffirming that Russia had "never" been threatened by the ' NATO.
New rule in Belarus
Belarus, an ally of the Kremlin, for its part organized a referendum on Sunday which eliminates the obligation for the former Soviet republic to remain a “nuclear-free zone”.
Westerners have denounced this change, which they believe could allow Moscow to move nuclear weapons to Belarus, another neighbor of Ukraine which also borders several countries of the Atlantic Alliance.
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