“Note to those who want to spam our page — you won’t stop us from serving and supporting our NATO friends and allies!” U.S. European Command responded on its Facebook page.

The comment came along with a picture of a Stryker paired with the text “they see us rollin’, they hatin’,” the chorus line from the popular 2005 song Ridin’ by Houston rapper Chamillionaire.

This statement would seem to imply a foreign power — like Russia — might be goading the commenters into action. For nearly a year, there’s been a flood of propaganda coming from Russia about the conflict in Ukraine.

Of course, there doesn’t appear to be anything concrete to suggest that Moscow is directly responsible for any of the anti-American sentiment. During the past year, NATO and European Union members have also been divided over how to respond to the Kremlin’s rhetoric and Kiev’s troubles.

Regardless, the Dragoon Ride has become a demonstration of Washington’s military strength and its ability to be on call when its friends are in need, like the Great White Fleet. The convoy is likewise reminiscent of U.S. Army soldiers driving through East Germany to Berlin in a show of force to the Soviet Union in 1961.

Besides claiming that American military maneuvers are destabilizing the situation, there’s little the Kremlin can really do to spoil the party.

To show its frustration with Washington’s policies, Moscow has had to rely on inflammatory rhetoric and tit-for-tat exercises.

In February, Russian paratroopers showed off their skills near the Estonian border while NATO troops took part in an independence day parade in Narva. The town is an ethnic Russian enclave that sits on the river of the same name, which forms a natural boundary between the two countries.

And while the Dragoon Ride was just getting started, Russia’s ambassador to Denmark took the opportunity to warn the small Scandinavian nation against joining NATO’s ballistic missile defense shield.

“If this happens, Danish warships become targets for Russian nuclear missiles,” ambassador Mikhail Vanin wrote in an op-ed published by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. Copenhagen’s top diplomat Martin Lidegaard quickly condemned the remarks.

Then on March 24, with the great green fleet on the move, two Russian Tu-22 Backfire bombers and a pair of Su-27 fighter jets streaked through the sky over the Baltic Sea.

One of the nuclear-capable Backfires was flying at supersonic speed, according to journalist David Cenciotti’s blog The Aviationist.

But none of this is likely to dampen the spirits of the Dragoons or curb local curiosity as the convoys travel from town to town. Additional American troops—along with more M-1 Abrams tanks—have also arrived to train with Baltic and Polish forces.

Maybe when Russia holds its annual May 9 Victory Day celebrations to mark the Soviet victory during World War II, Washington might see a more pointed response to the Dragoon Ride.