• 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.

• A former adviser says Vladimir Putin wants to invade Belarus, Finland and the Baltics some day

Alex P

Shared publicly - Yesterday 9:32 AM

A former adviser says Vladimir Putin wants to invade Belarus, Finland and the Baltics some day ► 
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/03/30/vladimir-putin-conquer-finland-_n_5058483.html. 
 It's funny how naive Finland is and how it allows Russia to build another power plant and doesn't join NATO. They forgot how Russia took a lot of their land 70 years ago.

• NATO to deploy small units in 6 Eastern European nations - Associated Press By LORNE COOK

NATO to deploy small units in 6 Eastern European nations
Associated Press By LORNE COOK

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg speaks during a media conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Monday, Jan. 26, 2015. Ambassadors met on Monday for an extraordinary meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Commission and released a statement condemning the sharp escalation of violence along the ceasefire line in eastern Ukraine. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

• Putin Is Infiltrating European Politics With Shocking Effectiveness - JEREMY BENDER

Putin Is Infiltrating European Politics With Shocking Effectiveness

JEREMY BENDER   

Putin has become shockingly effective at influencing European politics through a host of far-right parties.

The following chart from the Center for Eurasian Strategic Intelligence (CESI) shows Russia's growing influence within six different European Union countries.

• Moscow troops could be in five NATO capitals in two days, boasts Putin: Leader boasted to Ukrainian president about Russian power - WILL STEWART FOR MAILONLINE

Moscow troops could be in five NATO capitals in two days, boasts Putin: Leader boasted to Ukrainian president about Russian power 

by WILL STEWART FOR MAILONLINE

Putin, pictured here at a meeting of the Russian State Council, boasted Russia could be in Kiev in two days - and also in Riga, Vilnius, Tallinn, Warsaw and Bucarest

Shockwaves reverberated through Eastern Europe tonight after Vladimir Putin boasted he could invade five NATO capitals inside two days.

• Vladimir Putin threatened to invade NATO nations in alleged conversation with Ukraine’s president

Vladimir Putin threatened to invade NATO nations in alleged conversation with Ukraine’s president

Justin Huggler, The Telegraph

Russian President Vladimir Putin waves after a wreath laying ceremony at the monument to Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014. As the Ukraine crisis intensifies, the NATO countries closest to Russia have been pushing the alliance to set up permanent bases with troops on their land — with historical fears of Moscow heightened by new Russian aggression.

President Vladimir Putin privately said he could invade Poland, Romania and the Baltic states, according to a record of a conversation with his Ukrainian counterpart.