Russia and NATO have embarked on rival arms buildups and toughened their posture and rhetoric against each other, raising the security stakes between the two former Cold War adversaries while claiming to be reacting defensively to the other's threats.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
Los Angeles Times: Russia and NATO raising stakes with military buildups and rhetoric
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg gestures as he speaks to the media ahead of a NATO Defence ministers' meeting at the NATO headquarter in Brussels on June 24, 2015.
