{"id":40,"date":"2018-03-11T00:22:09","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T00:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2018\/03\/11\/army-document-us-strategy-to-dethrone-putin-for\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:21:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:21:20","slug":"army-document-us-strategy-to-dethrone-putin-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2018\/03\/11\/army-document-us-strategy-to-dethrone-putin-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Army document: US strategy to \u2018dethrone\u2019 Putin for oil pipelines might provoke WW3"},"content":{"rendered":"
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…the document admits that far from the US being some innocently hapless victim of Russian interference, the US has at various times run covert \u201cinformation, economic and diplomatic\u201d campaigns to either \u201cdethrone Putin\u201d, or at least undermine his rule.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The document goes on to compare NATO policy to co-opt former Soviet
\nstates to an imagined Russian effort to incorporate Mexico or Canada
\ninto the Warsaw Pact, or deploy ballistic missile defences to the
\nAmericas\u200a\u2014\u200asuch actions have never been contemplated by Russia, and
\nwould of course never be acceptable to the United States. But, the
\ndocument says, their equivalence in Eastern Europe and Central Asia is
\nalready being carried out by NATO to weaken Russia. This is why the
\nincorporation of Georgia into NATO \u201ctriggered the 2008 Russian invasion
\nof South Ossetia and the Kremlin\u2019s first use of nuclear coercion.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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…the document also sets out more conciliatory gestures to appease Russia, for instance, in \u201cnegotiations on any of the frozen conflicts the US, the West and Russia are involved in\u2026 One notion might be a bigger role with Iran, Syria or even Turkey.\u201d<\/p>\n

This does, indeed, now appear to be the self-serving policy adopted in Syria, where the US is actively planning for an accommodation with Bashir al-Assad. In the words of the DIA\u2019s Otto, \u201cthere must be an understanding that some countries may suffer as a result of our actions. A strategy of partial withdrawal from Syria or the Ukraine may actually allow for better future negotiations. The springtime drawdown of Russia from Syria allowed negotiation space for Putin, and even Assad.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Army document: US strategy to \u2018dethrone\u2019 Putin for oil pipelines might provoke WW3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…the document admits that far from the US being some innocently hapless victim of Russian interference, the US has at various times run covert \u201cinformation, economic and diplomatic\u201d campaigns to either \u201cdethrone Putin\u201d, or at least undermine his rule. 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