Biden Says World Faces ‘Prospect of Armageddon’ Over Putin’s Alleged Threat to Use Nuclear Weapons

U.S. President Joe Biden (L) walks to board Air Force One before departing from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on Oct. 6, 2022. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday night compared Russian President Vladimir Putin’s alleged threats to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine to the potential “Armageddon” of the Cuban missile crisis of 1962.

Speaking to Democrat donors, Biden invoked the specter of the Cuban missile crisis while remarking on the state of the Russia–Ukraine war, as Ukraine’s forces recapture more territory in the country’s south.