"A bellicose stance toward Russia has become so routine and widespread that we might not give it a second thought... Often the biggest lies involve what remains unsaid. For instance, U.S. media rarely mention such key matters as the promise-breaking huge expansion of NATO to Russia’s borders since the fall of the Berlin Wall... or the more than 800 U.S. military bases overseas -- in contrast to Russia’s nine... The lives -- and even existence -- of future generations are at stake in the relationship between Washington and Moscow... The [USA's] incessant drumbeat is in sync with what Martin Luther King Jr. called “the madness of militarism."