Zach Nunn: “The threat in Europe now is not Russian invasion of one of the Visegrad countries. The threat is the huge proliferation…”

“The threat in Europe now is not Russian invasion of one of the Visegrad countries. The threat is the huge proliferation problem with nuclear materials being smuggled across the borders to these countries, with Russian scientists under severe economic pressure being in demand in various parts of the world. But, hopefully, we can work together to prevent that. That is the threat. The threat is terrorism, the threat is ethnic strife, the threat is religious strife. It could change in 10 years. Ten years from now Russia could reemerge as a real military threat to some of those countries. We have to be prepared for that. We have to make sure we are in a position to react to that. But now we have many mutual interests, and not just with Russians, but with the East Europeans and others, in proliferation and working together against organized crime, which is one of the biggest challenges Russia has right now, their organized criminal activity which is devastating to confidence for investment, economic kinds of commitments by business people from all over the world. So we have so many mutual interests with Russia. We are also going to have many differences with Russia. They do not have the same interests we have in many parts of the world. They have historically had different interests. But we have got to build the common bridges.…”