With all due respect, that's an exceedingly fine distinction to draw, particularly with a HN user whose first language might not be English. If I fear a nation'

With all due respect, that's an exceedingly fine distinction to draw, particularly with a HN user whose first language might not be English. If I fear a nation's military, it isn't an abuse of idiom to abbreviate that fear to one of the nation itself. Besides which, as mentioned ITT, when one reads TFA, the only mention of Russia is as a threat to Sweden: "simulating attacks", "infiltrating territorial waters", etc. There is no support in the text for any Russian fear of anything. Let us not go so far overboard in defending sensationalist headline-writing editors.