Alex Phillips: Is a war of words with Russia about to spill over into a war of weapons?

The most dangerous moment in decades. Those were the words of Boris Johnson at the Nato Headquarters earlier today. Meanwhile Foreign Secretary Liz Truss flew to Moscow to meet her counterpart in talks that seem to have yielded very little.

Russia has accused Nato of no longer being a defensive organisation, instead pursuing acts of aggression in Iraq, and has called demands for Russian troops to move from the borders of Ukraine as telling Russians what they can and can't do on their own soil.

Yet perhaps most cuttingly, the Russian Foreign Minister accused Western leaders of behaving in a cynically bellicose fashion to boost popularity at home, a comment that painfully plays against the Prime Minister's ongoing PartyGate saga and unhelpfully clings to the perhaps clunky decision by Liz Truss to pose in Red Square in a fur hat in what appears a desperate attempt to replicate Margaret Thatcher 35 years ago. But is a war of words about to spill over into a war of weapons?