Conflicts

Journalist Bob Woodward has published his book "War," which traces the history of three conflicts: the Middle East, Ukraine and Russia, as well as the struggle for the presidency of the United States.

In it, he reveals some of the conversations that current US President Joe Biden had as well as the information he had in order to manage to avoid a global conflict.

"Six months after Putin's faltering invasion of Ukraine and in the face of the Ukrainian counteroffensive, the Biden administration began to receive alarming information that the Russian president was getting increasingly desperate over his losses on the battlefield," Woodward writes.

"New intelligence reports indicated that there was a 50% chance that Russia would use a tactical nuclear weapon," writes Bob Woodward.

Joe Biden orders his teams to contact Moscow. A first, a tense telephone conversation takes place between the US and Russian defense ministers.

"I don't like being threatened," Shoigu warns, "Minister," Lloyd Austin replies, "I'm the leader of the most powerful army in the history of the world. I don't make threats."

(MH with MaSi/Source: War/Photo: Pixabay)