Kirby on Putin’s Nuclear Threats : We’ve Seen Nothing to ‘Make Us Change Our Strategic Deterrence Posture’

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KEILAR: “Just give us sort of -- give us the administration’s assessment here. Do you think Putin is closer to using tactical nuclear weapons or even this power plant as a nuclear weapon?”
KIRBY: “What I can tell you, Brianna, is that we’re watching this as closely as we can, and we’ve seen nothing that would make us change our strategic deterrent posture. So I think -- you know, look, we take these threats seriously as we must, and we have, since the beginning of this war. Because it was very early on when Vladimir Putin was using a bellicose nuclear rhetoric. So, we -- we have been taking it seriously for quite some time. Again, nothing that would cause us to change our strategic deterrent posture at this time.”