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The Phantom Menace

For citation, please use: Vershinin, A.A., 2026. The Phantom Menace. Russia in Global Affairs, 24(2), pp. 201–220. DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2026-24-2-201-220 In 2014, U.S. President Barack Obama called Russia "a regional power that is threatening some of its immediate neighbors, not out of strength but out of weakness" (Reuters, 2014). The Russian public understood these words

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WIRE — For citation, please use: Vershinin, A.A., 2026. The Phantom Menace. Russia in Global Affairs, 24(2), pp. 201–220. DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2026-24-2-201-220 In 2014, U.S. President Barack Obama called Russia "a regional power that is threatening some of its immediate neighbors, not out of strength but out of weakness" (Reuters, 2014). The Russian public understood these words

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