The United States sees no reason to change its nuclear alert levels at this time, a White House official said on Monday after Russia put its nuclear deterrent on high alert amid a barrage of Western reprisals over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
"We have not changed our own alerts, and we have not changed our own assessment in that front but we also need to be very clear-eyed about his own use of threats," White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki separately told MSNBC in an interview.
A White House official told Reuters that Putin was escalating the war with "dangerous rhetoric" and that Russia and the United States have long agreed that nuclear use would have devastating consequences. The official said the United States is assessing Putin's directive and at this time sees "no reason to change our own alert levels." Neither the United States nor NATO have any desire or intention for conflict with Russia, the official added.onto joint statements affirming a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.
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