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Communist government and they had done some things and so we went after them. they -- they threatened to come after us, and i remember our assistant secretary for europe at the time, larry eagleberger said, look, if you want to come after us, we will go right back after you. we are willing to take this relationship to zero because, frankly speaking, we don't care. and i don't think that's the position we want to take with the current russian government, but nonetheless i don't think we can allow them to get the better of us in any escalation. >> as a former u.s. ambassador, help us to understa...
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