A few news items of interest:

Poland wants permanent US military base, willing to pay $2 billion for it

Russia is opposed to a US military base in Poland for reasons that are at best unclear. Off the top of my head, only two reasons would exist:

1. Russia is afraid that Poland, with US military assistance, is going to invade Russia. Perhaps the beginnings of a worldwide Polish empire, with Russia as its footstool?
2. Russia is afraid that a US military presence in Poland will be detrimental to Russias plans on invading and conquering Poland

One of those ideas seems more likely to me than the other.

If Russia neither fears Poland nor plans on conquering Poland, then their best course of action would be to shrug off the US military presence and spend not a single ruble on countering it.

And…

China’s navy ‘warned off’ US warships that sailed through disputed South China Sea

Far as I know, the only parties who dispute that the South China Sea is international waters is China.