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Disillusionment and Missed Opportunities: Russia-U.S. Relations in 2017
On MSNBC, Chris Matthews asked candidate Donald Trump if he would ever use nuclear weapons. After being pressed several times, Trump thought about it for a bit and
said
... ... autonomous withdrawal from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty in 2002 did not help. The ABM Treaty was a cornerstone of international security. Without this treaty to hold countries back, Russia started to rebuild and modernize its nuclear arsenal in order to hold off NATO and deter nuclear threats. Vladimir Putin
said
as much in the latter third of his recent address to the Federal Assembly ...
Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election has generated an enormous amount of speculation about the future ... ... observers. Among them, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg’s attempt to explain to the US president-elect the importance of NATO, or the German defense minister’s remarks that NATO cannot be approached as a business. Do these seasoned officials ...
Europe and Russia are anticipating an undeclared tender for a new contract with the Trump administration
For the EU, Donald Trump’s ascension to power poses a challenge, although European leaders are not openly talking about it. The EU is seriously concerned not so much about NATO as a forum for a daily political dialogue with the United States as about the future substance of the north-Atlantic alliance’s policy. Trump has warned the EU that “business as usual” is unacceptable. Could a new “Trump Doctrine” ...
