If I have understood you correctly in previous threads, you believe that the "Russians" are driving the bus when it comes to the post-cold war world order. At times I believe you have even suggested that they do so with the knowledge and complicity of the US political establishment (Bush I &II included).
Yet this doesn't square with Putin's angry departure from Midland and our subsequent unilateral abrogation of the ABM treaty, does it?
Do you believe the old Cold War competition continues, or are we merely seeing new partners squabbling over scraps and details? Would love to hear your ideas.