US says it’s taking Putin’s ‘irresponsible’ nuclear threat ‘seriously’

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The United States is taking Russian President Vladimir Putin's 'irresponsible' veiled threat to use nuclear weapons 'seriously,' a senior US official said Wednesday.

This screengrab made from a handout video footage released by the Russian Defense Ministry on April 20, 2022 shows the launching of the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile at Plesetsk testing field, Russia. President Vladimir Putin said that the weapon, capable of carrying nuclear charges, will make Kremlin's enemies"think twice." Handout / Russian Defence Ministry / AFP

"It's irresponsible rhetoric for a nuclear power to talk that way. But it's not atypical for how he's been talking the last seven months and we take it very seriously," John Kirby, spokesman for the White House's National Security Council, told ABC's "Good Morning America" after Putin"We're monitoring as best we can—their strategic posture. So if we have to, we can alter ours. We've seen no indication that that's required right now.

"There'll be severe consequences. Not only will he be that much more of pariah on the world stage, but there'll have to be severe consequences that the international community will have." "It's definitely a sign that he is struggling," Kirby said. "He has suffered tens of thousands of casualties. He has terrible morale, unit cohesion on the battlefield. Command and control has still not been solved. He's got desertion problems and he's forcing the wounded back into the fight—so clearly manpower is a problem."

 

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