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Russian-American Relations: Exaggerated Threats
In the current environment of Russian-American relations, several different types of threats are being conflated and exaggerated. There is the threat of interference in each others domestic affairs-both Russian interference in the US elections and US interference in Russia's upcoming presidential contest. This is a non-kinetic threat, and based on what we know of the mature political systems in both countries, the role of external actors in shaping the outcomes is likely to be very limited compared to internal domestic factors.