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"Russia Already Considers Itself At War With The West"
Russia already considers itself at war with the West, according to an expert on the country.
Dr Igor Sutyagin, a research fellow at the defence and security think tank RUSI, says Russia's now engaged in a psychological battle for power with western nations.
He also says America’s plan to base a brigade of tanks across six European countries will have an impact on Russian aggression.
It comes as Russian military officials announce that the country is to deploy S-400 air defence systems near its Western borders by the end of the year.
Britain's Defence Secretary Michael Fallon, meanwhile, says the UK is to double its budget for training Ukrainian troops, to £6 million.
In April, meanwhile, the Romanian government approved draft legislation allowing foreign armies to transit, deploy and then base themselves on its territory.
The new law is part of a range of military-based legal and physical activity taking place from the Baltic down to the Black Sea.
It also answers, according to international relations expert Tim Marshall, the question President Putin asks in private about Romania and other NATO members - "If I push towards their frontier, what will they do about it?"
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Cover photo courtesy of RIA Novosti Archive/ Sergey Guneev via Wikimedia Commons
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