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"Even louder and more relevant": the Russian Federation does not exclude the beginning of a "random" nuclear war

In the US, the decision on the use of nuclear war is made by the President in agreement with the Minister of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Committee of the Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces. The Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Mikhail Popov believes that the country's nuclear shield was crack.

The Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Mikhail Popov stated that the question of the risks of "accidental" nuclear war for American society sounds "even more louder and relevant". He reported this in an interview with "Izvestia". "Today, 50 years later, this issue sounds even louder and more relevant," said Mikhail Popov.

According to him, this is especially observed after the published report by a special prosecutor Robert Her, who was appointed to investigate a case of secret documents that US President Joe Biden and his entourage allegedly was taken out of the White House. Popov stressed that the prosecutor described Biden as "an elderly person with memory problems, who in many cases difficult to mention the basic facts and details.

" "And this person is the only person who can order the use of nuclear weapons," - said the Deputy Secretary of the Council of Russia. He is convinced that in the "difficult and nervous internal political environment" the United States has increased the price of management mistakes made by leaders of the country, as a result of "to the world catastrophe near.

" Mikhail Popov said that in the United States the decision on the use of nuclear weapons is made by the President in agreement with the Minister of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Committee of the Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces. This order works around the clock and continuously. However, there is no defense minister on the spot, but no one knows where he is and who replaces him. The US nuclear shield allegedly cracks, he added.

On February 13, the Vice President of the European Parliament and the leading candidate of German Social Democrats in the future European elections of Catharina Barley stated that Europe should stop relying on the US nuclear protection and create its own weapons. The Institute of War Study in the report for February 7 told that Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Federation, threatened nuclear weapons.