Joe Biden Warns Russia On Use Of Chemical Weapons In Ukraine War: “We Will Respond”
deadline.comBroadcast and cable networks carried Joe Biden’s press conference in Brussels, where he is meeting with NATO allies, and reporters keyed in on one possibility: That Russia would use chemical weapons in the Ukraine war.“We will respond,” Biden told reporters. “The nature of the respond will depend on the nature of the use.”The president declined to address what kind of intelligence leads the U.S.
to think that Russian President Vladimir Putin is considering the use of chemical weapons, and he also did not go into specifics as to what kind of response that the U.S.
and other NATO countries would take.“It would trigger a response in kind,” Biden said. “We would make that decision at the time.”Biden also elaborated on his phone call last week with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The president said that he indicated to Xi that would “would be putting himself in significant jeopardy” if China backed Putin’s action against Ukraine.
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