speaking to state run media, he said the danger was serious, israel, it cannot be under estimated. he added that he did not want to see the risk to nuclear war artificially inflated. tucker: he does not see it as an artificially inflated. so what they are saying is we will use nuclear weapons against you and your allies if you don t back off. if, for example, this seems existential, like you re trying trying to overthrow our government. it s hardly in defense of russia to say that s a possibility, and has been for quite some time. so it was two years ago that vladimir putin revised russia s nuclear deterrent policy. the new policy allows russia to use nuclear weapons in response to a conventional strike. that means some sort of nonnuclear provocation. in march, russia s former president dmitry medvedev, who sits on russia s security council, reminded our country of this policy. he warned joe biden that russia