With Vladimir Putin in office for another six years, international security experts agree relations between the United States and Russia could sink even lower than they are now and that the danger of conflict between the nuclear giants is greater than it was in the darkest days of the Cold War. Speaking at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., Strobe Talbott, a former senior State Department official in the Clinton administration, said Russia “is ratcheting up the arms race” at the same time as “we are not seeing anything of arms control” as existing treaties are being ignored or allowed … Continue reading Security Experts Worry About Russia’s Increasing Actions Abroad Despite Sanctions