Breaking the U.S.-Russia Impasse: Keeping the Door Open to Dialogue
... around NATO and European Union enlargement, Russian actions in Crimea and eastern Ukraine, as well as the nature of the conventional ... ... opposed the deepening of NATO military infrastructure, including Missile Defense systems, on the territory of new member states.... ... expanded to include other states, such as the European states and China? Washington is also in the process of modernizing its tactical nuclear weapons systems, such as the B-61-12, in part by extending ... ... the conflict between Turkey, Syria and the Kurds, and between Iraq and the Kurds, given Turkish, Syrian, and Iraqi option to ...