US President Joe Biden is considering deploying thousands of troops, as well as warships and aircraft, to Eastern Europe and the Baltic States.

NATO member countries are putting their forces on standby and reinforcing the deployment of weaponry in eastern Europe amid escalating tensions between Russia and the US over Ukraine.

American writer Daniel Patrick Welch wonders at “the audacity” of American officials who say Russia is sounding the war drums in Eastern Europe.

The Biden administration has rejected a media report that the US is ready to scale back troop deployments and military exercises in Eastern Europe.

The terse warning to Moscow comes on the eve of a virtual meeting between US President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

New COVID-19 infections in the region have surged alarmingly in recent months, averaging over 83,700 new cases per day.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says the United States and its Western allies are working to create a belt of instability around Russia, and that they are attempting to drive a wedge between Moscow and its closest neighbors to achieve that goal.

The MKO, or MEK, is nothing more than a dying cult, comprising dwindling numbers of brainwashed members, no longer aware of who they are, or what their purpose is as they remain trapped in their prison-like compound in Albania.