Editors' note: With a change of guard in the White House coming in January, the new U.S. president will have a chance to commission a review of U.S. domestic and foreign policies. This primer is the third in a series designed to facilitate such a review by detailing the impact Russia does or can have on each of five vital U.S. national interests worth advancing in 2021-2024. They are: (1) maintaining a balance of power in Europe and Asia; (2) ensuring energy security; (3) preventing the use and slowing the spread of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, securing nuclear weapons and materials and preventing proliferation of intermediate and long-range delivery systems for nuclear weapons; (4) preventing large-scale or sustained terrorist attacks on the American homeland; and (5) assuring the stability of the international economy, which is addressed below.
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