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Russia is going to war on September 14, and though it’s against a fictional country, NATO has been panicking about it for months.

Every four years, Moscow conducts its large Zapad military exercises in western Russia and Belarus for six days, and this year it will engage the fictional country of Veishnoriya in a test of its defensive capabilities.

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