I firmly believe that the news these days are capitalizing on people's interest on Ukraine to report any non-incident with Russians as something terrible and foreshadowing of worse things to come, in order to generate interest on their pages.
"OMG! A Russian submarine may have been in Sweden!" Not important. The submarine could well have been damaged as the news report now. Not to mention that violations of national waters by the Russians or within NATO countries are common and nobody cares.
"Russians are sending their army to their border islands in the artic!" ( Here ) Yeah, they're trying to protect their oil exploration fields in the artic after Sweden sent their military in the area to look for the submarine. Kinda predictable and within their rights. NOTE: A lot of people with good arguments disagree that Sweden could do anything in the Arctic. I understand and I agree. But the "in reaction to Sweden's activity" was what the article said.
"NATO airplanes intercepted Russian airplanes in the Baltic!" ( Here ) So? The Russian airplanes didn't even violate NATO airspace according to the article. And again according to the article NATO regularly does that stuff and in neither of previous occasions the airplanes proved to be a threat.
Seriously all these non-incidents reported as terrible news and warmongering do in my opinion is take the world's eyes from real bad stuff Russia does in Ukraine or to their own people. They also scare the public and ferment slowly fear and distrust between the West and Russia.
News agencies, we know that a new Cold War would be awesome for your ratings. It would also be good for Hollywood. However, a new cold war would be bad for society, science, world economy and humanity.
Disclaimer: I don't say that Russia's actions in Ukraine are OK or within their own borders the tightening of the government powers and the purges. I don't say that the submarine isn't a violation.
I'm saying that there are incidents that are important, like Ukraine, Russia becoming more authoritarian and incidents Adar posted in post#14 (that never made it to mainstream news) ...
and there incidents that are OK (like Russia bolstering their arctic borders) or not important (like a single violation of national borders and Russian airplanes using the international airspace).
And the Media don't seem to be able to tell the difference.