New York Post – President Vladimir Putin said Russia wouldn’t back away from a second Cuban Missile Crisis if tensions between the two countries escalate, and suggested Moscow would have the upper hand in a nuclear conflict with the United States.
“They [the tensions] are not a reason to ratchet up confrontation to the levels of the Cuban Missile Crisis in the 1960s. In any case that’s not what we want,” said Putin late Wednesday. “If someone wants that, well OK, they are welcome. I have set out today what that would mean.”
He said Russian armed forces could deploy nuclear missiles on ships and submarines in territorial waters outside the US if Washington begins to move new short- and intermediate-range rockets in Europe.
