Rounds Says Russia Testing American Resolve With Ukraine Tensions

Rounds Says Russia Testing American Resolve With Ukraine Tensions

PIERRE — The U-S military Monday put some 85-hundred troops on heightened alert as tension with Russia grows over Russia’s placement of over 100-thousand troops on the country’s border with the Ukraine. South Dakota Senator Mike Rounds serves on the Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees and says Russian president Vladimir Putin is playing games with the West…

Rounds says amassing military hardware in Ukraine may force Putin to back down…

Other Russian allies like China, North Korea and Iran are all acting provocatively toward American allies at the same time. Rounds hopes it doesn’t escalate to a third World War…

Rounds says part of the Russian saber-rattling is to see how the U-S responds after the problematic U-S withdrawal from Afghanistan.