A young boy looks down the sights of a gun on a Stryker vehicle during the ''Dragoon Ride'' military exercise in Kupiskis some 160 kms (100 miles) north of the capital Vilnius, Lithuania, Sunday, June 12, 2016. PAimages/Mindaugas Kulbis. All rights reserved.
“Is Russia preparing for war?” read the headline of an International Business Times article on January 12. The story was about the movement of 4000 US troops, along with 87 American tanks and 144 armoured vehicles, into Poland.
BBC News ran a similar story the previous week, headlined “US tanks arrive in Germany to help NATO defences.” It was about “the largest shipment of US brigades since the fall of the Soviet Union” arriving in Northern Germany, ready to move east.
