Your article clearly states this is a responsive move by Russia, they are not escalating the aggression, Lord dumb-arse is and Macron.
The rules of war back up what Russia has said. eg Want to play war and think you can just keep arming, assist with targeting/ intelligence and logistical support without your home bases being targeted? Grow up and wake up quickly. Not the Taliban you're fighting here.
BTW Russia would only use nukes as a last resort. They have plenty of conventional weapons with hypersonic missiles to complete the job of taking out hostile command center's anywhere in Europe (and the US) without using nukes.
This is not a game and US leaders better wake up quick they are no longer the "exceptional" country.
No one wins if things go nuclear. The West needs to admit they miscalculated badly re Ukraine and count their losses.

@puff Russia has been the aggressor since the 1600s. They have attacked their neighbors over 60 times in land grabs, this is just the latest. We have learned from history Russia must be stopped.

@glennlab Besides the Nazi's and Napolean I guess
This, nuclear drills, is not really news. Clear as in the Kremlin's doctrine there for all to see. I'm amazed they have let it go thus far because sure as shit if a foreign country supplied weapons to another that were used against the US mainland, the US would take them out yesterday.
Since 2001, 9/11, the US became a rogue state thanks to the Patriot Act bypassing all checks and balances regarding war. They undermine the UN, hold countries to ransom via sanctions, destroyed nation states like Iraq and Libya. Passing FISA, banning tic toc when the Constitution specifically forbids Congress to censor the American public with laws...........................Why should any listen anymore to freedom loving/ rules based order America when they ignore their own Constitution and Bill of Rights? Let's go BRICS!!!!!!!!!

Recent history by NATO/ US and proxys (like us in Aust) has taught Russia to stand up in Ukraine or die. They stood up and when faced with an equal enemy, bully boys "The West" have been shown to be wanting. Suck shit, good when bullies get what's coming to them. The world watches.
Face it, Ukraine is done thanks to NATO expansionist policy. Russia is now stronger than ever thanks directly to this US administrations foreign policy.
Can't blame Trump forever, Ukraine/ Afghanistan/ Israel are all Biden babies because he's the one who fucked them.
Since the fall of the USSR, 1991, Russia has not been expanding. NATO and US garrisons have though, that's the history That matters. Recent history.

@puff So Chechnya was not an invasion? You are so full of shit it is unreal.

@glennlab Interesting history has Chechnya, but right now? Proud members of the Russian Federation'.
[en.wikipedia.org]

@puff Colonized slaves you mean.

@glennlab Unlike Iraq and Afghanistan who were not enslaved but had freedom imposed on them. Who runs US foreign policy? Not anyone you elect.
[eurasiareview.com]