“Russia doesn't pose the number-one national security threat to the United States,” Barack Obama told a joint press conference with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte at the close of the Nuclear Security Summit at The Hague. “I continue to be much more concerned when it comes to our security with the prospect of a nuclear weapon going off in Manhattan.”
Clearly it has not occurred to our most prized diplomat that belittling Vladimir Putin may be the quickest route to just such an event.