{"id":52791,"date":"2022-09-26T16:56:45","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T23:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=52791"},"modified":"2022-09-27T13:57:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T20:57:12","slug":"us-faces-bleak-options-as-putin-turns-bellicose-on-nukes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=52791","title":{"rendered":"US faces bleak options as Putin turns bellicose on nukes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. officials are walking a careful line in response to Russian President\u00a0Vladimir Putin\u2019s\u00a0latest suggestion that he may be willing to resort to nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Following Putin\u2019s thinly-veiled reference to the nuclear option in remarks last week,\u00a0Biden\u00a0administration officials have said they are taking the comments seriously, while trying to avoid escalating the situation with more bellicose rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin\u2019s announcement, which also detailed aggressive new steps to try and turn the tide of the war in Ukraine back in Moscow\u2019s favor, has U.S. officials caught between\u00a0a bleak set of options with Putin\u2019s nuclear saber rattling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. officials are walking a careful&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52792,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52791\/revisions\/52792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}