When Rip Van Winkle fell into a deep sleep and awoke 20 years later, he found that his world had changed almost beyond recognition. But, were today’s Rip Van Winkle to sleep for no more than a year and a half, he would awake to a radically different Russian-American relationship—and not just different, but dangerous to the point where usually-sober students of international relations now openly worry about Washington and Moscow stumbling into a confrontation that could lead to a totally unwanted conflict.
From the beginning of this odd crisis, the Obama White House stressed that although it profoundly disagreed with …read more
Source: Brookings
