Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters: "In fact, relations have now slipped to the level of direct confrontation." It might have been a over interpretation? But no clarification needed then? I'm guessing this is a dud. Misshapen by the Kremlin spokesperson made more bolatile by a village idiot somewhere in the internet. Dimitri is just saying what even Reuters and Xenhua need their audiences to know to justify a first strike. Putin has always said he will not strike first.