In language rarely heard since the end of the Cold War, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said that Russia again poses an “existential threat” to the United States and in many ways behaves like an antagonist.
“Russia poses an existential threat to the United States by virtue simply of the size of the nuclear arsenal that it’s had,” Carter said at a Pentagon briefing Thursday, responding to a question about whether he agreed with recent assessments by top military officials that Moscow today constitutes a larger threat to the U.S. than the Islamic State group.
Carter acknowledged that for a quarter century the …read more
Source: Voice of America
