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Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP In remarks at a private fundraiser on Thursday night, Joe Biden claimed the world was facing the prospect of “Armageddon’ if Russian President Vladimir Putin used a nuclear weapon in Ukraine.
Biden got a scolding from French President Emanuel Macron for even discussing the use of nuclear weapons. “We must speak with prudence when commenting on such matters,” Macron said at the European Union summit in Prague on Friday. He’s right, of course. Nuclear diplomacy is best conducted in the shadows, given the stakes involved. In 1962, John Kennedy and Nikita Kruschev established a “backchannel” — a trusted go-between who delivered private messages to the two leaders. As the two sides “negotiated” in public and at the UN, a deal was sealed behind the scenes.
But just because Putin is running off at the mouth about using nuclear weapons doesn’t mean Biden has to play that game. Nor does Biden have to let the world know about how the U.S. intends to get Putin off the perilous ledge he’s on.
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“We’re trying to figure out: What is Putin’s off-ramp?” Mr. Biden said in a speech at the home of James Murdoch, the son of Rupert Murdoch, executive chairman of News Corp.
“Where, where does he get off? Where does he find a way out? Where does he find himself in a position that he does not — not only lose face, but lose significant power within Russia?”
In 1962, Kennedy was confronted with the same problem: how to keep Kruschev in power without emasculating him while preventing World War III. Kennedy chose to give the Russian premiere a bone: removing U.S. missiles stationed in Turkey. (The White House spin at the time was that the […]
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