NATO and Russia playing dangerous game with military build-up

Luke Harding, The Guardian (United Kingdom)
Despite the cold war atmospherics, there’s little prospect of Russian tanks rolling across the border into the Baltic states anytime soon. Rather, Russia’s latest sabre-rattling is part of a hybrid Kremlin strategy. Abroad, the goal is to project Russian military power and strength – “willy-waving” in the words of one analyst. Since Putin became president in 2000, he has been determined to restore Moscow’s superpower status, with Russia as a global co-equal of US “hegemony”.