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Was Biden's chemical weapons threat a gaffe?

25 March 2022

11:56 PM

25 March 2022

11:56 PM

Did Joe Biden mean to threaten Russia with a chemical weapons attack? That seemed to be what he implied at yesterday’s Nato summit when he said Russia using chemical weapons in Ukraine ‘would trigger a response in kind’ from the US. To respond ‘in kind’ means to respond in the same way – i.e.

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