The US has expressed its readiness to hold talks with Russia, China and North Korea to reduce the nuclear threat. President Joe Biden said that dialogue is possible ‘without any preconditions’.
According to the White House’s official website, Biden made this statement during a ceremony honouring Nobel Peace Prize winners.
According to Biden, limiting negotiations on nuclear arms reduction will not benefit either the states themselves or the international community.
‘The United States is ready to negotiate with Russia, China and North Korea without preconditions to reduce the nuclear threat,’ Biden said.
The US President stressed that reducing the nuclear threat is relevant not despite the challenges of our time, but because of their presence.
‘These nuclear risks undermine the norms and agreements we have worked together to establish and contradict the vital work of today’s Nobel laureates,’ Joe Biden said.
Biden also recalled that last year, during a visit to Hiroshima, he spoke with a survivor of the atomic bombing in August 1945. According to him, this meeting reminded him of the need to continue on the path to the day when the world will finally get rid of nuclear weapons.
Russia’s nuclear blackmail
Since the beginning of the large-scale invasion, Russian forces have regularly tried to intimidate Ukrainians with a nuclear threat. Such threats appear with a certain frequency, which is a cause for considerable concern. Political analyst Andriy Zolotarev explained the conditions under which Putin could press the ‘red button’.
Admiral Rob Bauer, who chairs NATO’s Military Committee, believes that the Russian dictator’s recent statements about changing the nuclear deterrence doctrine are the result of failures to achieve strategic goals in the war against Ukraine.
Kanwal Sibal, former Deputy Foreign Secretary of India and former Ambassador to Russia, assessed the possibility of Russia’s use of nuclear weapons in the context of Putin’s doctrinal revision. He warned the Russian authorities that the first nuclear strike by the Russian Federation would deprive Moscow of the support of the countries of the Global South.
It has been reported that the Russian occupation forces have put the Yars strategic missile systems capable of carrying intercontinental ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads on alert. Oleh Zhdanov, a military expert and retired colonel, believes that Ukraine should not be particularly afraid of a nuclear strike from Russia.
