We must be able to talk to a nation that has the world's largest tactical nuclear arsenal and the second-largest, or possibly the largest, strategic nuclear stockpile.

Axar.az reports that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said this in an interview with journalist Catherine Herridge.

"Even at the height of the Cold War, even in the worst days of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union had communication. And the reason why from a – if you want to be mature and grown-ups about it, I’m not a fan of most of what Vladimir Putin has done, and that’s largely irrelevant when it comes to statecraft, because we ultimately have to be able to talk to a nation that has, in some cases, the largest tactical nuclear weapons stockpile in the world and the second largest, if not the largest, strategic nuclear weapons stockpile in the world. So, you have to have – I mean, at the end – whether we like it or not, Russia is a power, a global power, and they’re involved and engaged in Syria; they’ve been involved and engaged in the Middle East; even in the Western Hemisphere, certainly in Europe. We have to have some communication with them," he noted.