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3: Iran, Syria, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan...the UN...etc. The US and Russia are still superpowers and the rivalry still has significant impacts on other geopolitical crises. Russia's actions here add further complications in other such cases. We spent weeks discussing and dithering over what to do about Syria, while Russia just took instant action in Crimea (while, laughably, criticizing our actions in Afghanistan and Iraq for being too unilateral ). Putin is outmaneuvering the West at every turn and it just keeps getting worse.Vanadium 50 said:One interest is that the Administration does not look like a bunch of mopes who have been caught by surprise.
A second interest is in nuclear nonproliferation.
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