<p>Former Attorney General Bill Barr warned during an interview this week that the United States cannot allow Russian President Vladimir Putin&#8217;s invasion into Ukraine to escalate into a nuclear war.</p>
<p>&#8220;We have to be very careful about getting into direct conflict with Russia — Russia is a nuclear power, and we can’t allow this to escalate into a nuclear war,&#8221; Barr <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/russia-ukraine-former-ag-barr-says-us-cant-allow-this-to-escalate-into-a-nuclear-war-calls-for-prudence">told</a> Fox News. &#8220;I do think now is the time for prudence, and that we do not escalate — I know people see what’s going on, and they feel terrible about it — but that’s the nature of countries getting nuclear weapons: our options are curtailed.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;That’s why having North Korea get nuclear weapons is a problem, and that’s why Biden’s efforts now in reopening these negotiations with Iran and letting Iran become a nuclear power is very sobering,&#8221; Barr continued. &#8220;After Ukraine, say some things like this happen in Israel — we would be dealing with a nuclear power.&#8221;</p>
<p>Barr said that he believes that Putin is &#8220;committed&#8221; and that there is &#8220;no off-ramp for him,&#8221; adding, &#8220;It is hard to see a way he saves face without continuing to push forward.&#8221;</p>
<p>Barr said that Russia has &#8220;diminished themselves in the eyes of the world as a military power, because their military is not functioning very well&#8221; and that &#8220;even on paper, they don’t have the military power to do more than what they’re doing.&#8221;</p>
<p>Barr said that Putin is going to try to install a &#8220;a puppet regime in Ukraine like in Belarus&#8221; and that once that is accomplished he will try to destabilize the Baltic States, which include Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.</p>
<p>&#8220;I don’t think there is any risk in the short term of him expanding this to include invasions of other countries,&#8221; Barr continued. &#8220;I don’t think that there is a game plan to move beyond Ukraine at this point.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;A lot of our foreign adversaries think President Biden is a weak leader, and I think that’s partly what invited the aggression in Ukraine. Putin has always made it clear that he would not tolerate Ukraine as a part of NATO, but there was no real urgency on that,&#8221; Barr said. &#8220;I just think that he saw that there was an opportunity for him to move quickly against a leader who he didn’t think would resist very effectively.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Putin also saw that Biden had curtailed American energy independence, thus increasing the leverage of Russia,&#8221; Barr concluded. &#8220;He didn’t do anything by moving equipment and resources into Ukraine before hostilities began, which might have deterred Russia,&#8221; Barr said. &#8220;If he had put planes there and built up the Javelin missiles upfront, you may have had more of an effect in deterring it.&#8221;</p>
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