frank, joe biden said nato would respond to any russian chemical weapons attack. was he being specific? what kind of response was he talking about? this is either cunning ambiguity or a dangerous misuse of words, whichever way you want to look at it. ithink it is whichever way you want to look at it. i think it is deliberately ambiguous. the west does not have chemical weapons, ambiguous. the west does not have chemicalweapons, both ambiguous. the west does not have chemical weapons, both russia and america are signatories to the 1997 chemical weapons convention, 193 countries around the world have signed up to bits, banning these horrific weapons. it did not stop them being used in syria, the course, but there is no question of america or nato responded with a chemical weapons attack to a suspected russian one. what i think he means is that if russia escalates this war by deliberate use of, for example, toxic gas of which there are plenty of industrial stocks in ukraine, orammonia, something like that which causes mass civilian