I think he has made his goals pretty clear. He speaks about them openly, which is to have all around him states that are in his orbit, rather than pursuing their own futures, their own independent futures.
Carter expresses concern over Putin's ambitions regarding Ukraine and its neighboring states.
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I don't believe that the nuclear agreement with Iran constitutes a grand bargain of any kind or will lead to your word 'detente' of any kind, or at least we're not anticipating that.
China has and shares important responsibility for this development and has an important responsibility to reverse it.
There are many things that we work with China on, but there are certain aspects of Chinese behavior that are very disturbing to us.
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