Threat, Noncompliance: U.S. leaders should avoid promoting through summitry or incautious public statements the impression that theSoviet threat has already significantly diminished or disappeared or that theSovietUnion has now ended its pattern of noncompliance with international agreements.
The U.S. findings demonstrate a pattern of Soviet activity designed to secure for theSovietUnion maximum strategic advantage from the arms control process.
But with it went a pattern of global order based on competition between theSovietUnion and America, and also in part on a battle for influence with a rising China within the communist and non-aligned worlds.