The bad-tempered prelude to the festivities stood in sharp contrast to celebrations five years ago, when former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and ex-Polish president and freedom icon Lech Walesa were present. . This time, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s visit ended Friday, while..…

The Alliance championed the so-called zero option as the outcome of US- Soviet INF negotiations because it would remove all INF missiles rather than simply controlling their growth in balanced ways. ..…