NATO’S JULY SUMMIT IN WARSAW CONFRONTS RUSSIAN BELLIGERENCE: The summit (which begins July 8) is the subject of my Creators Syndicate column this week. NATO’S Warsaw meet up has been preceded by a lot of political and military signaling –signals directed at Moscow. This month-old Observer essay on NATO’s June 2016 war game in Poland is something of a companion piece to the new column. Today I read an essay the Atlantic Council just published advocating a NATO Black Sea command. My column mentions Bulgarian, Turkish and Romanian concerns about increased Russian military activity in the Black Sea region. My column also mentions NATO naval modernization. The detailed Atlantic Council essay tells you why that matters in the Black Sea.