A force of NATO warships, aircraft and marines stormed a beach in Norway to practice repelling an invader, part of the bloc’s largest military exercises since the Cold War.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/nato-exercise-sends-warning-to-russiaand-to-members-1540930970
The Kremlin felt confident enough to carry out the brazen novichok assassination attempt in Salisbury because of Britain’s failure to take strong action following a previous atrocity, the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, a leading think tank has claimed in a new report.
https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/29573567.html
https://newtimes.ru/articles/detail/171995
https://www.gazeta.ru/army/2018/10/30/12041209.shtml
https://www.svoboda.org/a/29572520.html
https://www.liga.net/politics/opinion/stolknovenie-mirov-zapadnyy-mentalitet-i-rossiyskiy-pragmatizm
https://www.gazeta.ru/army/2018/10/29/12040129.shtml