Secretary Austin Calls Russia's Nuclear Comments "Dangerous and Unhelpful"

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin calls comments by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that the threat of World War III is "serious" and that NATO is "in essence" already in a proxy war with Russia "dangerous and unhelpful. "Nobody wants to see a nuclear war happen. It's a war where all sides lose, and so rattling of sabers and dangerous rhetoric is clearly unhelpful and something we won't engage in," he says. close