"Russia will have much greater respect for America when I'm leading than when other people have led it. You will see that. Russia will respect our country more."

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The Soviet Union was, by the 1970s and 1980s, relatively stable and predictable. Putin's Russia is much more volatile. Nuclear policy is really in the hands of one person, or a small group of people, instead of a huge party-state apparatus. The possibility of a mistake is greater now.

— Anne Applebaum