I KNOW YOU ARE BUT WHAT AM I: Michael Sarah Ashton-Cirillo acts like a teenage girl (dream come true!) as he hurls abuse via catty social media posts, ecstatic on all the attention from Russia's high level officials.

A popularity-building tactic - you latch on to people much more accomplished than you, smearing them, until they ultimately respond. Except his was actually a death threat, and treated as such even by a US Senator.

Earlier, Russia's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Zakharova questioned why Cirillo isn't 'defending' Ukraine in Ukrainian - the American doesn't see any imperialism in his otherwise 'altruistic' behavior.

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