putin delivered his annual state of the nation address to both chambers of russia s parliament earlier today. he touted husbais nuclear arsen including a new hyper sonic targeting center and nuclear icbms he claims are impervious to defense systems. he accused the west of quote ignoring us, well, listen to us now. it comes less than three weeks before russia s presidential election in which putin is overwhelmingly expected to win his fourth term. joining us now, the author of the book a world in disarray richard haass. putin first. what s going on there? look, vladimir putin loves nuclear weapons. it s one of the very few do mains he can compete in. it s a throw back and just the other week the united states in
they can t compete. china is so much bigger and it will be more of a race to the bottom, trade agreements on china s terms it seems to me a big mistake. moral authority. the president met with two essential autocrat schs, putin duterte. putin first. he doesn t talk to him in any big or direct way about what they did in the united states election. he does say enough with the sanctions. they ve been sanctioned so much already. we need to move forward and do better. it s good to be friends with russia versus enemies. what do you make of that posturing? it s not good to be friends with russia, per se. it s good to have russia behave in ways to show greater respect for international rules. i don t want them using force in ukraine, sitting on crimea the way they are, indiscriminate bombing in syria or meddling in our elections. i don t care if we have a, quote, unquote, good relationship with russia. i want a russia that stops behaving as an international spoiler. duterte, trump says o