• Watch Out, America: Russia Sends Super Advanced S-400 to NATO's Borders Zachary Keck

Watch Out, America: 

Russia Sends Super Advanced S-400 to NATO's Borders

Zachary Keck

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/watch-out-america-russia-sends-super-advanced-s-400-natos-13199

Russia’s beefing up its air and missile defense systems near its borders with NATO countries, according to local media reports.

• Vienna Forum Hears Warnings of a New U.S.-Russia Nuclear Arms Race by Jonathan Tirone

Vienna Forum Hears Warnings of a New U.S.-Russia Nuclear Arms Race
by Jonathan Tirone

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-24/u-s-risks-weapons-race-as-russia-adds-warheads-senate-stalls

A Russian self-propelled surface-to-air missile systems BUK-M2E during the 'Army-2015' international military forum in Kubinka, outside Moscow, on June 17, 2015.
Photographer: Vasily Maximov/AFP via Getty Images

• Russia's Massive Military Buildup Abroad: Should NATO Worry? Zachary Keck

Russia's Massive Military Buildup Abroad: Should NATO Worry?
Zachary Keck

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/russias-massive-military-buildup-abroad-should-nato-worry-13132

As tensions between the United States and Russia continue to grow, Moscow is embarking on a massive military buildup in the country of Belarus. 

• Russia says it would match any U.S. military buildup in Eastern Europe - By Karoun Demirjian

Russia says it would match any U.S. military buildup in Eastern Europe
By Karoun Demirjian
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/russia-says-it-would-match-any-us-military-buildup-in-eastern-europe/2015/06/15/7db91350-1361-11e5-8457-4b431bf7ed4c_story.html

Polish tanks participate in a military exercise in Swietoszow, western Poland, on June 13. (Lech Muszynski/European Pressphoto Agency)

• U.S. Considers Nuclear Strikes As An Option Against Russia - By Christopher Morris

U.S. Considers Nuclear Strikes As An Option Against Russia
By Christopher Morris
http://www.valuewalk.com/2015/06/us-nuclear-strikes-against-russia-report/

Nuclear option on the table
 As tensions increase between Russia and the United States, a chilling report suggests that a nuclear strike is not beyond the realm of possibility. According to the report, numerous sources have reported on the meeting of US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter at the headquarters of the US European Command in Stuttgart, Germany, with two dozen other US military commanders and European diplomats in tow.

• Russia Gen. Leonid Ivashov:"neither Russia, nor China or anyone else can destroy US cruise missiles" - by Russia Today

 Russia must always keep America at gunpoint

"Tactical nuclear weapons that are constantly threatening the United States must become the factor that will deter large-scale aggression. Holding it at gunpoint - this is the deterrent," General Colonel in reserve, MGIMO Professor, Leonid Ivashov, said in an interview with Pravda.Ru editor-in-chief Inna Novikova.

• NATO: Big military build-up on Russia-Ukraine border - AP

NATO: Big military build-up on Russia-Ukraine border
AP

Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, meets with Denmark Prime Minister of Helle Thorning-Schmidt, right, at the Prime Minister's Office in Copenhagen on Monday April 20, 2015. (Thomas Borberg/Polfoto via AP) DENMARK OUT