Biden. The Biden administration published their PPR (Nuclear Posturing Review), dropping the long held "deterrent only" standing and including "cyber attacks" in the list of "extreme circumstances" that may result in preemptive nuclear offensive attack from the US. Biden made public statements dancing around, but reaffirming, this official position, using soft terms like "any means necessary."

This resulted in huge and embarrassing worldwide gasp and outrage, so most news outlets have tried to hide their breaking articles about it and flood new articles that slide the topic, not mentioning the nuclear part, and cleaning it up. He also later had to back track and do a anti-nuclear escalation tour with foreign countries, to cool down his own escalations, and fears that he had provoked Russia with nuclear threats. News outlets covered this positive seeming effort extensively, as if it was purely about Biden being pro-active about Russia's non-instigated possible nuclear use in Ukraine.

• The New York Times: Pentagon Suggests Countering Devastating Cyberattacks With Nuclear Arms
• The Washington Post: The U.S. says it can answer cyber attacks with nuclear weapons. That's lunacy.
• The Telegraph: Joe Biden ready to use nuclear weapons first in ‘extreme circumstances