Another fine example of how Corporate Main Stream Media walks lock-step with the New World Order and NeoCons.  This type of "reporting" has an obvious agenda...

Perhaps the article should have mentioned the Russian Air Force  buzzing USS Donald Cook (earlier in the week) was likely an angry reaction to an anti-submarine exercise with Polish helicopters 50 miles off the coast of Kaliningrad (one of their major naval bases) ....or the forward deployment of an ABM system (Donald Cook is an Aegis system with a port-call in Poland).  Its recent cruise across the Baltic to Lithuania, from the Russian point of view, looked like a US violation of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty of 2010, amounting to an “extraordinary event” and cause for Russia’s withdrawal from the pact, according to Article XIV. What if this were going on in the gulf of Mexico?

It's nothing more than "OH MY GOD We're Under Attack!!!" subterfuge.  

 If you require  chapter and verse:
  http://johnhelmer.net/?p=1546