It is interesting that cyberwarfare is developing into something conventional and attacking objects, infrastructure, and critical services.

In 2008, when Russia attacked Georgia, Western countries took it as an isolated incident, but probably this was the start of the push against our underlying international security architecture. And this push then started a landslide which in 2014 resulted in Crimean occupation.

We are past the stage in our relations that you come to Washington with an empty goody bag and then you go back with a bag filled with stuff.

Not everything is so bad... Whichever way you look at it, we feel that we can face the future when the liberal, democracy-based world sticks together. We have great trust that it will.

My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.

By the 1880s, English translations of both the French and the Russian editions were available, and Americans began to read 'War and Peace.'

We didn't get television until quite late, the late fifties, but we had radio, and I can remember listening to the Korean War news on the radio with my family and sensing the anxiety of the adults although not understanding it myself, not understanding exactly what was going on.

As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country.