After it was previously revealed in The Washington Post days ago that US officials have been pushing back against nuclear threats issued by Russian President Vladimir Putin and his top officials via diplomatic backchannels, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan issued his first public response and the administration’s counter-warning Sunday.
Sullivan warned the US is ready to “respond decisively” if Russia crosses the “line” regarding nuclear or other weapons of mass destruction, stressing it would result in “catastrophic consequences” for Moscow. Sullivan made the statements in three separate appearances on Sunday news shows.
The Hill notes that while he didn’t get into the details of specific US actions – such as the potential for a US nuclear response – he repeated his words of willingness to “respond decisively” seven times in the three appearances Sunday.
“Let me say it plainly: If Russia crosses this line, there will be catastrophic consequences for Russia,” Sullivan told NBC’s “Meet the Press” in the Biden administration’s strongest warning thus far.
He added, “The United States will respond decisively. Now, in private channels we have spelled out in greater detail exactly what that would mean, but we want to be able to have the credibility of speaking directly to senior leadership in Russia and laying out for them what the consequences would be without getting into a rhetorical tit for tat publicly.”
He also said that Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant falls under the administration’s warnings related to Russian actions which could cause nuclear catastrophe. Sullivan outlined that any accident or deadly radiation incident at the plant, which is Europe’s largest, would be Russia’s fault, given its forces occupy the site:
“It is actually still being operated by the Ukrainian operators who are essentially at gunpoint from the Russian occupying forces, and the Russians have been consistently implying that there may be some kind of accident at this plant,” the US national security adviser said.
On the same day a fresh interview with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky aired on CBS wherein he also addressed Putin’s nuclear rhetoric. Putin it must be recalled, in his ‘partial mobilization’ speech on Wednesday vowed to defend Russian territory (to include portions of Ukraine which are currently holding a 5-day referendum on joining the Russian Federation) “by all available means” – further saying he’s “not bluffing”.
Zelensky in the weekend interview called it “a very dangerous signal” at a moment of success and momentum for Ukraine’s ongoing eastern counteroffensive.
“He knows that he’s losing the war,” Zelenskyy said. “In the battlefield, Ukraine has seized the initiative. He cannot explain to his society why, and he is looking for answers to these questions.”
Zelensky explained that he’s taking the nuclear threat seriously: “Maybe yesterday it was a bluff. Now, it could be a reality,” he said in the “Face the Nation” interview. “He wants to scare the whole world. These are the first steps of his nuclear blackmail. I don’t think he’s bluffing. I think the world is deterring it and containing this threat.” The Ukrainian leader added, “We need to keep putting pressure on him and not allow him to continue.”
But then again, it’s more likely the weight of Western sanctions pressure and ongoing unprecedented shipments of NATO weapons into Kiev that’s leading to what’s increasingly looking like dangerous nuclear brinkmanship – as at the same time a diplomatic solution or potential for sit-down negotiations looks to be completely in the rearview mirror.
In the meantime, Putin doesn’t look in the mood to back down either, now having expended so much in blood and treasure in the “special operation” launched seven months ago…
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Exactly, limited nuclear weapon use, bomb, most likely a dirty bomb or as you say hoax bomb. Doesn’t matter. Its a coming. And “freedoms and identity” are about to take a serious hair-cut. Rooting for MEGADEATH. Radiation is real. The use of it may or may not be.
That’s it, I’m going down to the beach definitely not a London subway….
The only way to freely comment on any ZH article is to do it here on TBP.
ZH has been totally captured by the thot police.
As for Russia, we’ll, they expressed their grievances, which we chose to ignor, so here we are.
Fuck ZeroHedge.
Agreed, and I am a foundation member when it was a blog (an excellent blog) and Marla had Friday night music. the original Z Hedge was days in front of important news that mattered.
Now, it is rubbish because in response to the British Finance Ministers(Kwasi Kwarteng) solution to the crisis I posted “This appears to be a Nigger in the Woodpile” the Post never made it to a warning.
I always went on Zerohedge, and yes info was way out in front. Never commented, then after the changes quality went sideways, and comment/Poster Quality went more negative than hexa-boosted immune systems. Now it’s premium???? It’s so easy to be way out in front, storm front, they have laid it out everyday now even lukewarm babies can figure out tomorrows headline.
I remember now. MILLION DOLLAR BONUS!!!
Yes to all of this.
Jake Sullivan knows less about military matters than Jake from State Farm.
He has ZERO credibility.
Ignore him. He is nothing but a talking head buffoon. I doubt anyone in positions off power takes this talking dick seriously. He should boink that kneeeegrow press secretary … produce a child with an IQ of 1.
His job is to keep foreign policy focused on Israeli interests, not game nuclear wars.
After reading the headline, I thought:
Wow, finally something I can agree with Jake on!
Sullivan: Russia’s going to use a nuke.
Translation: America is going to use a nuke.
The hypersonic does a LOT of damage just on inertial impact energy alone…..no radiation!
Can’t wait to see some Plasmoid missiles fly over on their way to USSA.
Well that real or false flag event would need to take place in “the West”, as I cannot conceive a scenario where such in Russia would not be answered with a full out response strike.
Then however, such a false flag [in the West] wouldn’t result in your listed outcomes for Russia and it’s allies, meaning your extension to worldwide implementation seems overblown.
Do you for one minute think that the first use of a low yield Nuclear multi head rocket would have the heavier response by the first user nation, baked in.
They would have everything targeted before its use and any response to the low yield would, unfortunately be meet in full, as in everything required, is on point, out of bed and locked down with commands at the ready.
It is a bit like chess, the first mover has the advantage.
Russia would have to be pushed into a very serious corner to set this response up. It seems this has been forgotten as “they” pursue its hobbling.
One thing is for sure there will be NO notice of intent, just preplanned action for the least disastrous outcome worked in.
The technocracy will have their war, one way or another (only because most folks buy the narrative):
The pResident declared war on Russia when he applied stringent economic sanctions in March this year
It’s so true, Sanctions are soft war, but war nonetheless. And it is directly aimed at citizens.
sorta reminds me of US/Japan in the late ’30s
All war is always directed at the civilians. The U S murdered over a million civilians in Vietnam in the name of saving them. Kind of like the Spanish inquisition on steroids.
Sullivan Vows Decisive Response, Catastrophic Consequences If Russia Uses Nuclear Weapons
But it’s not your fight, Mr. Sullivan.
Another Bolshevik cadaver involved in all things evil…no one could’ve known…reeeeeeee
On March 24, 2022, former President Donald Trump sued numerous people including Hillary Clinton and Jake Sullivan alleging a conspiracy by the Hillary Clinton campaign to invent the Russia collusion scandal.[23]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Sullivan
A few megacities destroyed after a limited nuclear exchange (whether real or staged), and people will be terrified that the apocalypse has arrived. Then the Globalist fuckers come out from behind the curtain and offer the dumb masses the deal of the century – in exchange for peace, food and shelter at a comfortable subsistence level, but they will own everything and you will be happy.