Russia & Eurasia

[Obama] clearly would like to do something more on arms control, so one question is, are the Russians prepared to respond to the proposals that he made in Berlin in June for reducing the new START limits by a third?

If I were the president I wouldn't go [to Moscow]. There's nothing but downside here. Obama doesn't like aimless diplomatic chitchat. One, he's not going to go to a meeting just to be humiliated; and two, he doesn't want the same dynamic as in Northern Ireland where the two of them clearly didn't have much to talk about.