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US top diplomat Blinken: Putin’s nuclear rhetoric is ‘height of irresponsibility’
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken during a news conference at the State Department in Washington, DC, on February 22, 2022. (Carolyn Kaster / POOL / AFP)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken calls President Vladimir Putin’s “provocative” nuclear rhetoric “the height of irresponsibility” Wednesday, days after the Russian leader put his strategic deterrence forces on alert after invading Ukraine.
“It’s dangerous. It adds to the risk of miscalculation. It needs to be avoided,” Blinken tells reporters in Washington.
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