Russophobe

“I’m called a Russophobe and hater of Russian culture,” Lockshin says.

Once side-lined by some in Nato as a post-communist Russophobe, Poland has now become a linchpin in the eastern flank of the alliance.

Watching YouTube, he said, has made him more of a “Russophobe.”

He mentioned Senator Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican, and other critics of Mr. Putin in Washington as possible substitutes, but said: “None of them is as charismatic as John McCain. It will be hard to find somebody who can replace him as the main Russophobe.”

Life News, an outlet close to the Russian security services, declared him the West’s “chief Russophobe.”