For the first timrre ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Kremlin has put its foot down. No NATO for Ukraine and Georgia. Period.

While the US is planning to increase its military presence in Eastern Europe to “protect its allies against Russia”, internal documents show what American “protection” in practical terms means.

Top lawmakers in US Congress hosted Mamuka Mamulashvili, an infamous Georgian Legion warlord who has boasted of authorizing field executions of captive Russian soldiers in Ukraine.

As the US ignites disruptive bushfires around Russia’s periphery -- in Kazakhstan (again), Belarus (again), Georgia, Poland, Moldavia and Transnistria -- why should the Axis not fan a few disruptions on America’s periphery?