President Joe Biden said on Thursday evening that Vladimir Putin was not joking about using nuclear weapons in Ukraine - and said the risk of of Armageddon is the highest it has been since the Cuban missile crisis.
He delivered his doomsday warning at a fundraising event for Democrats at the New York home of James Murdoch, son of media mogul Rupert.
It comes amid growing fears that Putin is backed into a corner and could use tactical nuclear weapons to push back advancing Ukrainian forces.
'We’ve got a guy I know fairly well,' said Biden said at the reception for the reception for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
'He's not joking when he talks about potential use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons because his military is — you might say — significantly underperforming.'
'Don't be fooled by the idea that smaller, tactical weapons were not a major threat to the world,' he continued at the reception for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
'I don't think there's any such thing as the ability to easily [use] a tactical nuclear weapon and not end up with Armageddon,' he said.
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