Published 15:20 IST, October 9th 2022

Macron scolds Biden for nuclear ‘armageddon’ warnings, asks him to 'speak with prudence'

“We must speak with prudence when commenting on such matters,” Emmanuel Macron reportedly said at European Union summit in Prague.

Reported by: Zaini Majeed
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French President Emmanuel Macron scolded US President Joe Biden for warnings that world is at risk of a nuclear “Armddon." Macron told a presser that Biden, as a leer taken seriously, shall choose his words carefully. US leer stated that one must t underestimate extraordinary danger if Russia deploys tactical nuclear weapons, shocking world and triggering panic over a nuclear war outbreak. Biden was speaking at a Democratic fundraiser when he me controversial statement. 

“We must speak with prudence when commenting on such matters,” Macron reportedly said at  European Union summit in Prague. “I have always refused to eng in political fiction, and especially … when speaking of nuclear weapons,” he ded. “On this issue, we must be very careful," he was reported as saying. 

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In an extraordinarily confident remark about possibility of a nuclear war, Biden said at standard fundraising that Putin was “t joking when he talks about use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons.” “We have t faced prospect of Armddon since Kennedy and Cuban Missile Crisis,” he continued. Biden ted that nuclear threat from Russia's Putin is real “because his military is — you might say — significantly underperforming.” US officials scrambled to justify Biden's comments, saying that his claims were t result of any new intelligence from Russia and that US has evidence that Putin might pull  trigger on deterrent forces.

US HHS buys anti-riation pills after Putin issued nuke threat

It was also learnt that  United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has alrey spent an estimated $290 million to purchase  anti-riation drugs as Russia's President Putin sent nuclear warnings to US and Europe. Drug Nplate is developed by Amgen, based in Thousand Oaks, California, that treats acute riation syndrome (ARS). ARS, also kwn as riation sickness, occurs when a person’s entire body is exposed to a high dose of penetrating riation, reaching internal organs in a matter of seconds. Symptoms of ARS injuries include impaired blood clotting as a result of low platelet counts, which can le to uncontrolled and life-threatening bleeding, HHS explained in a statement. 

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As Russia annexed four of occupied Ukrainian territories in eastern Donbass region, Zelenskyy expedited a formal application to US-led bloc NATO seeking candidature into alliance. Ukraine's leer also me controversial remarks stating that NATO must do “preventive strikes” against Russia so it is unable to use nuclear weapons first, prompting a fierce response from Kremlin that said Ukraine was calling for a WWIII. 

15:10 IST, October 9th 2022