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I think the Russians are provoking the U.S. There is quite clearly an escalation of provcations.

Putin said as much, just last week. He said in a speech that the U.S. was involved in increasing hostilities, and they had no choice but to respond in kind.

We should expect to see a lot of this in the near future. There will be lots of "baiting", "waving the flag before the bull" type of thing. It will be glossed over, Russia will claim that it was a "mistake" or "they are exaggerating" etc etc.
But behind the bravado is a deadly seriousness.

The problem with the U.S., is it has so many enemies right now. They are basically taking on the entire world and you can only fight so many battles.