“Putin's strange fight becomes more dangerous than ever

September will be a month of nervousness in Eastern Europe. On 14 this month, Russia will reveal what may be the largest military exercise since the Cold War. In Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and elsewhere, officials openly express concern that exercise “Zapad 2017” (The West) in the vicinity of their decks will be used as cover for a military attack.

President Putin sees both conventional and nuclear weapons as useful tools to reconfirm Moscow's status as a world power and to intimidate its closest enemies. The three years since the prosecution of Crime have witnessed dramatic increases in Moscow's military activity.

But the escalation of Russia's confrontation with the West goes far beyond that. Moscow, Washington and other Western governments realise that any direct conflict between Russia and the West could result in catastrophic. Instead, the face is getting worse, often in strange ways. And while many Americans may blame Moscow, many Russians see this encounter with indifference.

This is partly because of the Kremlin media machine that constantly promotes the message that Moscow is providing for itself not to avoid being surrounded and impoverished and paints the West as chaotic, corrupt, and greedy. Such views are deeply rooted in the Russian national mentality. A disassembled report published by the US Defence Agency in June concluded that senior Russian leaders sincerely believed Washington was aimed at ousting them, especially under President Barack Obama.

This belief creates increased risks that harm and destabilise both sides and there is no indication that they can be eliminated.

On August 2nd, Trump was overcome by bilateral pressure by signing a law establishing new sanctions required by Congress. It was a sign how Capitol Hill, not the president, can now seek to confront ʹ Trump complained at Twitter that sanctions could pose dangerously in doubt relations with Russia, but that he was politically powerless to block them.

At the end of the Cold War, Western leaders made the uncontaminated decision to pull Moscow into Western economic structures to cement peace. The last round of sanctions may have been the last nail in the sky in this approach. Writing on his Facebook page, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev described them as <x0-economic war>”, saying they put an end to any hope for re-approachment under Trump administration.

Even if the battle of alliances between Washington and Russia seems to be toward the end in Syria, it in Ukraine seems to be intensifying. Last week, US Defence Secretary James Mattis announced that his government is considering supplying Ukraine's deadly weapons to US-made anti-tank missiles to be used in its current war with Moscow-backed Russian separatists.

Meanwhile, Moscow, in turn, is getting more and more involved in confronting Washington and North Korea. Last week, nuclear-powered bombers invaded Japanese and North Korean airspace. Moscow is encouraging Russian tourism in North Korea, inevitably complicating any American decision to take military action on the peninsula.

Russia's alleged intervention in Western politics now goes far beyond hackering or publishing sensitive data that was witnessed in American or French elections. Social media experts say an army of information tools or websites led by the Russians are already actively promoting their divisive narrative narativas in the American and European political debate.

“Nojla “suspected of being Russian links, believed to be automatic mass passers at Twiter Street, were spotted distributing extreme right messages both before and after the demonstrations of white primacy in Charlotteville, Virginia.

Similar tactics that even use the TV platform as “Russia Today” or the Sputnik website target Europe, sometimes with more focus.

There is a direct contrast to the early years of the Obama presidency when the administration hoped to bypass Putin by working first with the Russian president of the time, Medvedev. This, along with perceived support in Russia for the opposition and human rights groups within this country, has added to the Kremlin, especially in the wake of unusual anti-Putin mass protests in 2011.

Most experts agree Putin has its own personal survival priority more than anything else.

At the moment, all parties clearly prefer to face each other with economic, political tactics and other unorthodox means rather than with open force. The future Zapad exercise, however, will probably follow the same trace that has already been traditiond by the Russians by ending with a simulated nuclear attack on an enemy city or military installation. The last training “Zapad” of 2013 had Warsaw for target.

That is how Moscow reminds potential neighbours and opponents how much they can lose if tensions mount too much. The irony is that all of this only guarantees that a nervous world like the present will be even more nervous after this training. (Prepare: Julie Priest Tesheshi. com)