As Washington and Warsaw enhance their military cooperation, Moscow is almost certainly looking for ways to respond. While the temporary and rotational nature of the U.S. Air Force asset deployment to Poland is not fully satisfactory to Warsaw — the permanent stationing of such assets would be preferred — Moscow nonetheless sees it as one of the United States' first steps in slowly expanding its military assets from former Cold War battleground states, like Germany, closer to the current borders of Russia's sphere of influence.
