NEW YORK, December 4. /TASS/. The world is currently closer to a nuclear war than ever before because the United States is in a "hot war" with Russia, and the majority of Americans do not even realize that, US journalist Tucker Carlson said in a video, posted on his website.

"We are, unbeknownst to most Americans, in a hot war with Russia, an undeclared war, a war you did not vote for and that most Americans don’t want but is ongoing. And because of that war, because of the fact that the US military is killing Russians in Russia right now, we are closer to nuclear war than in any time in history. Far closer than we were during the Cuban Missile Crisis," he said.

In his words, no one in Washington "is working to make sure that this conflict doesn’t become a nuclear holocaust."

"Tony Blinken, the current Secretary of State, cut off all contact between the US and Russian governments. There is no back channel. There is no conversation. There hasn’t been for more than two years," Carlson continued.

In his words, the current escalation reached its apogee after US President Joe Biden permitted the use of US weapons for deep strikes into Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on November 21 that the United States and its NATO allies had earlier announced that they would authorize Ukraine’s use of long-range weapons to hit inside Russia, after which American and British missiles struck Russian military facilities in the Kursk and Bryansk regions. He said that Russia responded to those attacks by firing Russia’s newest Oreshnik hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile with a non-nuclear warhead at a Ukrainian defense industry facility, the Yuzhmash plant in Dnepr (formerly Dnepropetrovsk). The Russian leader emphasized that the West’s provocative policies could have dire consequences if they further escalate the conflict.