On Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Western countries that his country’s nuclear threats are “not a bluff.”
According to FOX News, Despite no NATO countries threatening to use nuclear weapons, Putin issued the warning after accusing Western countries of resorting to “nuclear blackmail.”
"This is not a bluff…"
— TalkTV (@TalkTV) September 21, 2022
Vladimir Putin warns Russia will respond with the might of its entire, vast arsenal if the West continued with what he called its "nuclear blackmail." pic.twitter.com/m08pDqKvFs
FOX notes that a Ukrainian counteroffensive has cost Putin’s military thousands of square miles of territory in Ukraine, making the Russian military’s prospects in Ukraine bleak.
On Wednesday, according to the Independent, In a speech to the United Nations general assembly, Joe Biden condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as “brutal, needless.”
Biden also addressed Putin’s threats to use nuclear arms.
“Russia has shamelessly violated the core tenets” of the U.N. charter with a “brutal, needless war” in Ukraine, President Joe Biden tells world leaders in a speech at the United Nations General Assembly. https://t.co/wFoJrZOwc3 pic.twitter.com/omD4NEeyzH
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 21, 2022
President Trump also took notice of Putin’s warning, writing on Truth Social, “President Putin of Russia is now threatening the use of Nuclear Weapons, saying “It is not a bluff.” The Ukrainian conflict should never have happened, and would not have happened if I were President. But as I have made very clear for quite some time, this could now end up being World War III.”

