NEWSWATCH Moscow Times/Mark Galeotti: Russia Is Not the Threat the West Thinks It Is

Writing in The Moscow Times, Mark Galeotti comments on U.S. threat assessments of Russia.

Suddenly, it seems, America has decided that Russia is a threat, even an existential one. Really?

 

 

Air Force Secretary Deborah James said: ‘I do consider Russia to be the biggest threat.’ Nonetheless, she comes across as positively dovish alongside with House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry, who feels Russia is the ‘one country that clearly poses an existential threat’ to the United States.

 

 

Politicians are expected to say striking things, though. It is even more noteworthy when it becomes part of the military narrative, too. Speaking at his confirmation hearing to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford unequivocally affirmed that ‘Russia presents the greatest threat to our national security.’

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