How the West should deal with Putin’s threat of a nuclear strike – Opinion

People in 2022 are experiencing many things for the first time. For the first time in at least 60 years, an American president has sent her into the weekend with a concrete prospect of the end of the world. At a fundraising event in New York, Joe Biden spoke several times of an impending Armageddon. For the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, if the situation continues to develop, there will be a direct threat of the use of nuclear weapons. With his enormous foreign policy experience and access to the concentrated knowledge and belief of the US secret services, Biden expresses a concern that basically everyone who has recently listened to Vladimir Putin with one ear should have. The question is what follows from this.