Looming tension
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation staged one of its biggest military exercises in recent times along Russia’s borders. Russian President Vladimir Putin remarked last year that “only an insane person, and only in his dream, can imagine that Russia can suddenly attack NATO”. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made it clear that Russia had a “negative attitude” to the movement of NATO’s “military infrastructure to its borders”. The Warsaw Pact military alliance was duly dismantled, but within no time NATO started expanding towards Russia’s borders, taking Poland and other former allies of Moscow into the military alliance. The Russian Defence Ministry in a statement warned the U.S. against sending spy planes towards Russia’s borders with their transponders switched off.
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