To be said while the Russians spread stories the US spreads their ABM systems around Russia. This policy is considerably more dangerous than anything either side did during the cold war and makes a US first strike on Russia considerably more likely than ever and worse pushes the Russians into either an arms race to develop their nuclear capabilities further including producing more warheads as well as warheads with ABM countermeasures as well as pushes them to lash out with even a potential first strike as soon as they'll fear that the ABM system is about the nullify their nuclear arsenal completely.<p>While no one can agree if MAD is the most effective strategy it has more or less prevented major global conflicts for the past 70 years, the ideological and cultural dissonance between the US and Russia is pivotal to "world peace" just as the balance of power.
If there is one thing that is worse than a single global super power is 2 that agree on everything and are besties, so at least the US is doing a good job at pissing Russia off, too bad they are doing it by destroying the nuclear balance of power between the 2 super states.