Associated Press:
"I don't throw around terms like 'new Cold War,'" Rice said on her way to Moscow for a visit amid growing tensions underlined by President Vladimir Putin's increasing criticism of the United States. "It is a big, complicated relationship, but it is not one that is anything like the implacable hostility" that clouded ties between the United States and the Soviet Union.
"It is not an easy time in the relationship, but it is also not, I think, a time in which cataclysmic things are affecting the relationship or catastrophic things are happening in the relationship," Rice told reporters aboard her plane. "But it is critically important to use this time to enhance those things that are going well and to work on those things that are not going well."
Last week, in a speech commemorating the defeat of the nazis, Putin alluded to the US while denouncing it for "disrespect for human life, claims to global exclusiveness and dictate, just as it was in the time of the Third Reich." When someone thinks you're like the freakin' nazis, things aren't really going very well...
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