In a way, Russian-American relations since the fall of the Berlin Wall haven’t changed that much. During the Cold War, the security relationship was characterized as one of mutually assured destruction (MAD). Today, it's still MAD but now it's mutually assured distrust.
After seemingly endless rounds of talks with its Polish and Czech counterparts about fielding a missile defense system in Europe, the United States made some progressin early February when Warsaw and Washington jointly announced they had reached an agreement in principle to move forward with the deployment of ten interceptors in Poland.
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