Biden Pledges Response If Putin Uses Chemical Weapons

President Biden was asked whether the U.S. has gathered specific intelligence that suggests that Russian President Vladimir Putin is considering deploying chemical weapons and whether the U.S. or NATO respond with military action if he did use them, ABC News reports.

Said Biden: “I’m not going to give you intelligence data, number one. Number two, we would respond. We would respond if he uses it, and the nature of the response would depend on the nature of the use.”

Meanwhile, Axios reports that White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan confirmed that he has tasked a special “Tiger Team” of experts to conduct contingency planning for the possibility that Russia uses chemical weapons in Ukraine or strikes NATO territory.