Great Power x Great Power = Safety?
"(...) I fully mirror your behaviour when you say that your anti-missile defense system 'is not targeted against us' - then our new weapon is 'not targeted against you' either."
Nobody has anything to gain from a nuclear stand-off against Russia. The power hungry decision-makers are few in number, but powerful enough to have subverted mainstream media to misrepresent Russia as the main threat to international security.