After his meeting with fellow Western foreign ministers today in Brussels, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned that President Putin could open a “Pandora’s box of trouble” for the entire world, adding that Nato did not seek conflict, but “if conflict comes to us, we are ready for it”.
A sign of just how far relations between the US and Russia have deteriorated since the end of Soviet communism seemed to usher in a whole new era of history.