Putin says Russia would be 'OK' with another Cuban Missile Crisis-level confrontation with the US

FOX NEWS - Vladimir Putin has warned that he's ready for another Cuban Missile Crisis if America should invite it, as tensions between the U.S. and Russia continue to escalate.

"They (the tensions) are not a reason to ratchet up confrontation to the levels of the Cuban Missile Crisis in the 1960s. In any case that's not what we want," Putin reportedly told Russian media late on Wednesday. "If someone wants that, well OK they are welcome. I have set out today what that would mean. Let them count (the missile flight times)."

The statement serves to support the claims Putin made during his state of the union address earlier on Wednesday that Russia would aim hypersonic missiles at the United States if we were to deploy intermediate-range missiles in Europe.

Of his own admission, tensions have not yet reached the chaos of the Cuban Missile Crisis, but Putin doesn't appear to be shying away from the potential of a new international clash.