They serve reconnaissance and diversionary purposes, are test runs, and are intended to sow discord within NATO. There are doubts in the US itself, in Europe, and in Russia about whether Washington, under the slogan “America First,” still stands by the East-Central European NATO countries. However, there should be both a defensive reaction and offensive countermeasures in response to Russian provocations. First, it would be necessary for the Western European NATO countries to show complete solidarity with their Eastern European partners in word and deed. Further and greater Russian provocations are therefore foreseeable.