In the real world, the confrontation on a military level with Russia has reached heights quite possibly not seen since the Cuban Missile Crisis:
-U.S. Navy sailed contested Russian territorial waters
-USAF flew unprecedented surveillance overflights of the Ukraine with forward and side (looking into Crimea) looking system capable aircraft
-U.S. military commanders have re-affirmed their support of the Ukraine
-NATO just ended one of, if the largest post cold war military exercise that has ever been held, on the cusp of the Russian frontier: 50,000 troops, 265 aircraft, 50 warship, upwards of 10,000 tanks/troop carriers/support vehicles
-The U.S. Navy plans more sail through and a larger presence in the Black Sea
-300 U.S. military personal remain in the Ukraine advising their military
-U.S. State Department working to get Germany to abandon the Nord Stream-2 pipeline deal with Russia
-US Troops to (sadly) remain for the foreseeable future in Russian Client State Syria
-US Abandons nuclear "agreement" with Russian Client State Iran
-US continues full court press for long term military partnership with Russian client state, India
In other news, Mueller unilaterally erases 19,000 texts, still nothing of any substance on Russian COLUSION.