bluff

The fear is that although Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threats have turned out to be largely bluffs, allowing Ukraine to hit targets deep inside Russia with Western-supplied missiles could provoke a major escalation.

Putin has previously warned that such a move from the US would amount to direct participation of Nato countries in the war - but Maj Omelyan said this was simply “bluffing”.

Jens Stoltenberg, the former Nato boss, said the West had “called Putin’s bluff” over nuclear threats - implying it had crossed many of Putin’s red lines without anything happening.

Walk through the gate and follow Seascape Trail along the bluffs to Point Vicente.

Down below, excavators, cranes and graders were building a bluff where a new border wall will join an existing 30-foot wall the Trump administration spent billions of dollars to erect.