US troops recently paraded near the Russian border in Estonia, just 900 feet from Russia. This act was seen as potentially provocative. A Washington Post reporter covered the incident and discussed how the parade in the Estonian town of Narva so close to the Russian border could be viewed as provocative or even dangerously provocative by Russia.

1. Yahoo
US troops just paraded along the Russian border. Is that as insane as it sounds?
On Wednesday, the US Army did something that seemed, and maybe was, dangerously provocative:
it paraded soldiers and armored vehicles from the Second Cavalry Regiment in the Estonian town of
Narva, just 900 feet from Russia's border. The Washington Post's Michael Birnbaum, reporting the
incident,...

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