At dangerous times, vital countries are called (Comment)
When the 9/11 attacks struck New York and Washington in 2001 and the U.S. armed forces went on full alert, then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice immediately got on the direct line to Moscow and told Vladimir Putin not to worry: the United States was not going to attack Russia.
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