Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Steven Pifer: Putin’s nuclear saber-rattling – What is he compensating for?
Visitors walk past a Russian self-propelled surface-to-air missile systems BUK-M2E during the 'Army-2015' international military forum in Kubinka, outside Moscow, on June 17.
On June 16, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited a new "military-patriotic recreation park" near Moscow. His speech there made headlines, and not because the park is what one Western reporter called a "military version of Disneyland," where kids can fire rocket-propelled grenades. (Sounds like the kind of park that I would have wanted to visit as a kid.)
