The world is on the brink of a third world war, this time with the major combatants having nuclear weapons. The world has been in a state of relative peace and prosperity ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 — but no longer.
From 2019 to 2021, I served as U.S. ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Vienna, Austria. As the United States’s ambassador to that 57-country organization, I worked to implement the Final Act of the Helsinki Accords of 1976. Those accords, agreed to by Russia, guaranteed countries the right to sovereignty, inviolable borders, the right to be a part of any alliance they chose, and human rights. The Final Act opened the path for a better future.
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