Ex-US pres. candidate warns Biden pushing world toward nuclear war

Former US presidential contender and ex-lawmaker Tulsi Gabbard has slammed US President Joe Biden over his war-mongering, accusing the octogenarian leader of pushing the world towards a nuclear war over Ukraine.

Speaking on Saturday at a meeting in a university in Centennial in the US state of Colorado, Gabbard said the Biden administration’s war-mongering policy was shoving the world on the brink of nuclear disaster.

“We are faced with the reality. Now, President Biden's actions and policies have pushed us to the brink of nuclear war,” she said.

The former Democratic lawmaker from Hawaii warned that the US-led proxy war against Russia posed an “existential crisis”, threatening the very existence of humanity.

“This is an existential crisis, not only for us here but the world. This proxy war against Russia using the Ukrainian people’s lives continues to escalate,” Gabbard said in her speech which was broadcast on her social media.

She insisted that it was time for a reality check to see if Biden and his lackeys had any awareness of the risk and dangers of delivering more and deadlier weapons to Ukraine, saying it would “only increase the likelihood” of a possible direct confrontation between the US-led NATO forces and Russia.

“Now if you hear President Biden and his administration … talk about this, they talk about World War III and nuclear war as though it is just another war, just another conflict … it is so far removed from the reality … they are not being honest with the American people what the cost and consequences of these wars would look like,” Gabbard added.

West's weaponry for Ukraine pushing the world closer to 'nuclear apocalypse': Medvedev

Russia has warned that supplying more destructive and advanced weapons by the US and its allies to Ukraine increases the probability of a "nuclear apocalypse.”

Russia was forced to launch its military campaign in Ukraine on February 24, 2022, as part of its national security measure to protect the Russian motherland against persistent eastern advances and encroachment by the US-led NATO military forces.

Since the start of Russia’s operation, US-led Western countries have been supplying Kiev with a constant flow of financial and military aid worth tens of billions of dollars.

The shipments started with lighter arms and munitions, evolving into bigger artillery guns, shells, munitions, and training, which continues with the delivery of heavier weapons, rockets, missiles, armored vehicles, tanks, and possibly F-16 fighter jets.

Moscow has repeatedly warned that the Western military assistance to Kiev will only prolong the war and add to the death and destruction, without stopping Russia from reaching its security objectives.

It has frequently warned the Western side against providing military aid to Ukraine, saying the move amounts to participation in the war.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has issued warnings to them that the NATO allies’ numerous attempts at arming and training Ukrainians are tantamount to direct involvement in the war, warning that it sees the Western countries as being complicit to Kiev’s warmongers, thus making them legitimate targets for the Russian military forces fighting the conflict.

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