Humanity at a Crossroads: Cooperation or Extinction
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ANALYSIS/OPINION:
When President Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin and invited him for a summit, I felt a relief almost like back in 1962 when I heard on the news that John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev had made a deal to resolve the Cuban missile crisis and avoid nuclear war.
When the gentleman invites someone for a serious business talk, especially in the search of peace, he does not start with insults, threats and sanctions, but as we see in this case he does what obviously puts the probability of this meeting in huge doubt.
So, it is too early to celebrate, and I agree with Sen. Sam Nunn, who came up with the expression “sleepwalking into nuclear a catastrophe,” when describing the state of U.S.-Russian relations. Many other foreign policy experts began using this term, and some supplemented it with the word “cyber” next to nuclear, especially after Mr. Biden directly threatened Moscow with the use of this relatively new weapon.
Such is the urgency facing our species that we ask you, as the leaders of your respective countries, to consider a symbolic gesture towards transforming the pattern of conflict into an opportunity to resume meaningful dialogue – not to ignore the past but, instead, to focus on taking new approaches.
We must promote our commonly shared aspirations to Live in Peace and Save the Planet together by toning down dangerous and uncompromising rhetoric and concentrating on a positive agenda.
April 25th, the 76th anniversary of the historical linkage when our two countries - at the time, allied nations- met at the Elbe River in Germany to end WWII, provides the opportunity to recall this vision of alliance and become a watershed to rebalance U.S.-Russia relations.