WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan Tuesday answered a reporter’s question about Russia’s use of possibly smaller nuclear weapons in Ukraine: by saying President Biden will this week, in his visit to Brussels, be consulting with allies on ‘that potential contingency.” Sullivan’s verbatim response follows:
“President Putin, in the early days of the conflict, actually raised the specter of the potential use of nuclear weapons . It is something that we do have to be concerned about. Based on our current analysis we have not changed our nuclear posture to date but we are constantly monitoring for that potential contingency and of course we take it as seriously as one could possibly take it. We will be consulting with allies and partners on that potential contingency among a range of others and discussing what our potential responses are but I’m not going to speak to that from this podium today. I’m going to let the president have the opportunity to speak with his fellow colleagues on what is a very weighty matter.”
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