A man watches Russian military jets performing in Alabino, outside Moscow, in August. The Russian military says major war games, the Zapad (West) 2017 maneuvers, set for next month will not threaten anyone. (Pavel Golovkin/AP)Russia is readying this week for war games that Western security officials see as a muscular display of firepower along NATO’s most vulnerable region. “Transparency is the best way to avoid those kinds of incidents, accidents.”Russia annually holds war games that rotate among the country’s military districts. “Russian information war wants to convince our population that our country is small and indefensible, and that NATO won’t defend us.”[Lithuania fears a Russian invasion.

Source: Washington Post September 10, 2017 20:03 UTC