Barack Obama actually said...

The national security of both Russia and the United States will suffer if the world experiences a breakdown of the nonproliferation regime.

Russian internal political developments have definitely been going in the wrong direction for some time now.

I'm skeptical of quid pro quo deals of this kind. Successful diplomacy rarely involves trades of completely unrelated issues.

Barack Obama and Joe Biden will address the challenge posed by an increasingly autocratic and bellicose Russia by pursuing a new, comprehens...