years from being someone who was a kind of russian dove. you wrote in 2004 stop blaming putin. maybe we could even work with him to now of course saying more hawkish things. we can t trust him. he isn t a partner. he can t be negotiated with. fee i don t know narcotics where does that leaf us then? we can t go to war over ukraine, or are you suggesting at some point there will be open war between these two nuclear powers, that it s inevitable? because that s a pretty scary prospect. what we re trying to do is trying to figure out how to manage a relationship that s been on a confrontational path. the first quote is during the war in 1990s after a major terrorist attack in beslan in the south part of russia where a whole school was taken hostage. you know, later on, when you kind of look at the relationship with russia just before trump came into power, a lot of our senior military leaders were expressing concern that we were
him to now of course saying more hawkish things. we can t trust him. he isn t a partner. he can t be negotiated with. fiona, where does that leave us then? we can t go to war over ukraine, or are you suggesting at some point there will be open war between these two nuclear powers, that it s inevitable? because that s a pretty scary prospect. look, it s not so helpful to label things hawks, doves. what we re trying to do is trying to figure out how to manage a relationship that s been on a confrontational path. the first quote is during the war in 1990s after a major terrorist attack in beslan in the south part of russia where a whole school was taken hostage. you know, later on, when you kind of look at the relationship with russia just before trump came into power, a lot of our senior military leaders were expressing concern that we were battling towards a confrontation again where there might have been on russia s part a desire to event contemplate using a tactical nuclear weapon.