- North Korea says the missile launches were a simulation of a nuclear attack
- Putin’s response to the bridge attack is non-nuclear…yet
- Iran nuclear deal means higher gas prices
Global leaders are expressing new fears that the world is on the verge of a nuclear strike due to escalation on several different fronts.
North Korea confirms that the recent wave of missile launches was a simulated use of tactical nuclear weapons on the battlefield. It comes as Russia, which has threatened to use nuclear weapons on Ukraine, unleashed a fresh barrage of missile attacks against its neighbor this morning.
Communist North Korea says the seven recent missile launches, including two on Sunday, were exercises by its tactical nuclear operations units practicing to destroy US and South Korean targets. The regime in Pyongyang is angry over recent joint US-South Korean live-fire exercises in the region.
Meanwhile, the Russian regime unleashed a barrage of explosions that rocked several Ukrainian cities today, including the capital Kyiv, where one of the attacks killed at least eight people and injured 24.
The attack was Russian President Vladimir Putin’s response to Saturday’s explosion on the huge Kerch Bridge connecting Russia with its annexed territory of Crimea. The attack on the bridge is believed to be the work of Ukraine.
After the missile attacks, Ukrainian President Zelenskyi told his nation that Russia was trying to “wipe us off the face of the earth.”
Biden Talks About ‘Nuclear Armageddon’
This is due to ongoing concerns that Putin could use tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine. Biden recently warned that the risk of “nuclear armageddon” is the highest since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Fox News the comments were “reckless.”
“And I think more importantly, they demonstrate perhaps one of the biggest foreign policy failures in decades, which was the failure to deter Vladimir Putin in the same way that the Trump administration has done for four years,” Pompeo said.
White House national security spokesman John Kirby defended Biden’s statement, saying, “The president reflected the very high stakes that are at play right now.”
Former Joint Chiefs Chairman Mike Mullen told ABC that Putin’s nuclear threats should be taken seriously.
“I believe he’s a cornered animal,” Mullen said, referring to Putin. “And I think he’s getting more dangerous because of what’s happened in the last 24 hours.
With oil risks rising, Biden is still pushing for the Iran nuclear deal
Meanwhile, Biden’s foreign policy in the Middle East puts the US economy at greater risk.
OPEC is cutting production, in part because the White House is trying to strike a nuclear deal with Iran that many Arab countries oppose.
Biden continues to draw on strategic oil reserves in an effort to keep gas prices at lower levels in the weeks leading up to Election Day.
Pompeo called it “…a failure of American policy. Joe Biden is directly responsible for where the world is on energy, and frankly his party, the progressive left, for 25 years of thinking you’re going to run the world on solar and windmills.”
Even former President Barack Obama’s economic adviser blames the White House for the new American energy crisis.
Larry Summers told Bloomberg’s Wall Street Week: “Look, we made a mistake when we canceled the Keystone Pipeline. We made a mistake when we slowed down all kinds of permitting activity. We made a mistake when we were hostile to natural gas as a country.”
Gas prices are already hurting Democrats, and the last thing they need this morning is another price increase.
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