Leonid Bershidsky: The West shouldn’t fear Russia’s ‘hybrid warfare’
A Russian soldier stands near the besieged Ukrainian military base in Simferopol on March 18, 2014.
In the two years that have passed since Russia annexed Crimea, the expression "Russian hybrid warfare" has become a fixture in the Western political, media and academic lexicon. It's a catch-all for Russian hostility - and a perfect mirror image of the Kremlin's own paranoia about the West.
