And of course the other (and highly likely) possibility is that they are doing it specifically for the purpose of provoking Russia, so that the US can create a pretext for ramping up a new Cold War with that country. Just think if the money that will flow if we could have a new Cold War (along with all of our other very expensive wars) to line the pockets of the military industrial complex (which, if I'm not mistaken, writes the paychecks of the person who started this thread).