A larger presence of US and NATO military forces in Poland aims at “Drang nach Osten” (“Drive to the East”) against Russia. Belarus is likely to become a transit area for aggression against Russia. A pretext for escalation in the region can be anything, a made-up ‘Russian aggression in Ukraine” or a blatant provocation with the use of the American unmanned aerial vehicle MQ-9 Reaper as in the Gulf of Oman. However, the West’s collective hunt against Russia and its allies is doomed to fail because Russia will do everything to defend allied countries and itself.