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(Iam posting the whole thing because its behind a paywall)
No surprise there, but this is just another proof of it, Russia is manipulating everyone, they're dividing us all to create chaos.
Source : https://www.washingtonpost.com/w…
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''Secret Russian foreign policy document urges action to weaken the U.S.''Russia’s Foreign Ministry has been drawing up plans to try to weaken its Western adversaries, including the United States, and leverage the Ukraine war to forge a global order free from what it sees as American dominance, according to a secret Foreign Ministry document.
In a classified addendum to Russia’s official — and public — “Foreign Policy Concept of the Russian Federation,” the ministry calls for an “offensive information campaign” and other measures spanning “the military-political, economic and trade and informational psychological spheres” against a “coalition of unfriendly countries” led by the United States.
“We need to continue adjusting our approach to relations with unfriendly states,” states the 2023 document, which was provided to The Washington Post by a European intelligence service. “It’s important to create a mechanism for finding the vulnerable points of their external and internal policies with the aim of developing practical steps to weaken Russia’s opponents.”
The document for the first time provides official confirmation and codification of what many in the Moscow elite say has become a hybrid war against the West. Russia is seeking to subvert Western support for Ukraine and disrupt the domestic politics of the United States and European countries, through propaganda campaigns supporting isolationist and extremist policies, according to Kremlin documents previously reported on by The Post. It is also seeking to refashion geopolitics, drawing closer to China, Iran and North Korea in an attempt to shift the current balance of power.
Using much tougher and blunter language than the public foreign policy document, the secret addendum, dated April 11, 2023, claims that the United States is leading a coalition of “unfriendly countries” aimed at weakening Russia because Moscow is “a threat to Western global hegemony.” The document says the outcome of Russia’s war in Ukraine will “to a great degree determine the outlines of the future world order,” a clear indication that Moscow sees the result of its invasion as inextricably bound with its ability — and that of other authoritarian nations — to impose its will globally.
The Foreign Policy Concept of the Russian Federation, which was published March 31, 2023, and approved by Russian President Vladimir Putin, deploys bland diplomatic language to call for “the democratization of international relations,” “sovereign equality” and the strengthening of Russia’s position on the global stage. Though the Foreign Policy Concept also charges that the United States and “its satellites” have used the Ukraine conflict to escalate “a many-years-long anti-Russia policy,” it also states that “Russia does not consider itself an enemy of the West ... and has no ill intentions toward it.”
Russia hopes the West will “realize the lack of any future in its confrontational policy and hegemonistic ambitions, and will accept the complicated realities of the multipolar world,” the public document states.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it did not comment “on the existence or nonexistence of internal ministry documents” and on the progress of work on them. “As we have stated several times on different levels, we can confirm the mood is to decisively combat the aggressive steps taken by the collective West as part of the hybrid war launched against Russia,” the ministry added.
Russia’s recent veto against extending U.N. monitoring of sanctions against North Korea over its nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles program, effectively ending 14 years of cooperation, was “a clear sign” that the work contemplated in the classified addendum is already underway, said a leading Russian academic with close ties to senior Russian diplomats. The academic spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive deliberations in Moscow.
“Russia can create difficulties for the U.S. in many different regions of the world,” the academic said. “This is about the Middle East, northeast Asia, the African continent and even Latin America.”
The creation of the Foreign Policy Concept and the classified addendum followed a call to Russian academics for policy suggestions. One proposal submitted in February 2023 to the Foreign Ministry by the deputy head of Moscow’s Institute for the Commonwealth of Independent States, which maintains close ties to Russia’s security apparatus, laid out Russia’s options more bluntly still.
The academic, Vladimir Zharikhin, called for Russia to “continue to facilitate the coming to power of isolationist right-wing forces in America,” “enable the destabilization of Latin American countries and the rise to power of extremist forces on the far left and far right there,” as well as facilitate “the restoration of European countries’ sovereignty by supporting parties dissatisfied with economic pressure from the U.S.”
Other points in the policy proposal, which was also provided to The Post, suggested that Moscow stoke conflict between the United States and China over Taiwan to bring Russia and China closer together, as well as “to escalate the situation in the Middle East around Israel, Iran and Syria to distract the U.S. with the problems of this region.”
Zharikhin declined to discuss his proposal.
Western officials have warned that Russia has been escalating its propaganda and influence campaigns over the past two years as it seeks to undermine support for Ukraine. As part of that, it has sought to create a new global divide, with Russian propaganda efforts against the West resonating in many countries in the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Asia.
“I think the U.S. was convinced that the rest of the world — North and South — would support the U.S. in the conflict with Russia and it turned out that this was not true,” Zharikhin told The Post in an earlier interview. “This demonstrates the single polar world is over, and the U.S. doesn’t want to come to terms with this.”
For Mikhail Khodorkovsky — the longtime Putin critic who was once Russia’s richest man until a clash with the Kremlin landed him 10 years in prison — it is not surprising that Russia is seeking to do everything it can to undermine the United States. “For Putin, it is absolutely natural that he should try to create the maximum number of problems for the U.S.,” he said. “The task is to take the U.S. out of the game, and then destroy NATO. This doesn’t mean dissolving it, but to create the feeling among people that NATO isn’t defending them.”
The long congressional standoff on providing more weapons to Ukraine was only making it easier for Russia to challenge Washington’s global power, he said.
“The Americans consider that insofar as they are not directly participating in the war [in Ukraine], then any loss is not their loss,” Khodorkovsky said. “This is an absolute misunderstanding.”
A defeat for Ukraine, he said, “means that many will stop fearing challenging the U.S.” and the costs for the United States will only increase.
- Vladimir Zharikhin, called for Russia to “continue to facilitate the coming to power of isolationist right-wing forces in America,”HAL9001
- Moscow stoke conflict between US and China over Taiwan to bring Russia and China closer togetherHAL9001
- as well as “to escalate the situation in the Middle East around Israel, Iran and Syria to distract the U.S. with the problems of this region.”HAL9001
- RU seek to subvert West support fo Ukraine n disrupt the domestic politics of US & Euro through propagand campaign supportin isolationist and extremist policiesHAL9001
- ultimately, they want Civil Wars, US is a candidateHAL9001
- HAL90012
ISRAEL ATTACKING IRAN NOW
- they fighting everybodypango
- CAPS LOCKsted
- dronessted
- Israel vs. the worldutopian
- It's actually Bibi against the word!
Aren't all wars started by despots?grafician - Israel already attacked Iran last week.ApeRobot
- ffs caps lock
The sky isn't falling. This was as limp-wristed an 'attack' as Iran's response last week. Christ.Continuity - i don't care anymore about the middle-east. just nuke the whole place and we can move on.milfhunter
- https://j.gifs.com/v…palimpsest
- https://media.vlipsy…Nairn
- Elwin74-2
STOP WATCHING THE NEWS
- nb3
Oh my god
- HAL9001-2
Israel wants revenge over Iran.
ITS NOT OVER FOLKS!
stay tuned
- _niko7
all sabre rattling and a show. if Iran really wanted to hit Israel they'd launch their ICBMs 16,000mph vs 200mph drone and un-hittable since they go into outer space before coming down and striking their targets.
Just want to show they responded so they can get back to the real business of killing girls who don't wear a hijab.
- or maybe I'm wrong and they actually did fire ballistic missiles https://apnews.com/a…_niko
- but the ballistic missiles go 7km/s so they would have reached Israel in 2.5 minutes, not hours like they said._niko
- they definitely had ballistic rockets in use alongside the slower, mostly distracting, drones. The footage of them coming down is like a terrifying SpaceX vid..Nairn
- ..seeing them come in down the atmosphere at ridiculo-speed. This was a test as well as a slightly pathetic statement.Nairn
- Iran has been launching rockets at Israel from behind their girlfriend’s skirts for years. Unzipped their own pants this time to limp effectGnash
- Totally stealing "unzipped pants to limp effect", flol.garbage
- yuekit1
Channel 12 quotes a “senior Israeli official” pledging an ‘unprecedented response’ to Iran’s attack and urging Israelis not to go to bed due to what is coming Tehran’s way.
- yuekit2
Iran says its attack on Israel is a response to Israel's strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus, and "the matter can be deemed concluded."
- Really? Autoemasculation.Nairn
- for context - Iranian drones have 50HP engines and cost ~$20k to manufacture. US drones are typically ~$1m and on average kill 1 personkingsteven
- per UAV strike. Iranian drones i believe just crash in to a target. like an eco friendly V1kingsteven
- iran would know the chances of one making it through air defences which are designed to take out small rockets are next to nonekingsteven
- Agreed, it seems calculated just to say they responded. The same as when the Americans killed Qasem Soleimani.yuekit
- However, can Israel really stop at this point and not respond to Iran's response?yuekit
- Literally the plot of Boyz n Da Hoodprophetone
- It wouldn't be like them not to escalate, would the US intercept Isreal's missiles going the other way? fortunately when they're not committing genocidekingsteven
- isreal are capable of more targeted strikes.kingsteven
- lol prophetkingsteven
- lolyuekit
- Iran is patheticGnash
- @kingsteven lol at eco-friendly, and yes, you're correct. Iranian UAVs are lawnmower suicide bombs. I don't think they even have cameras, just GPS.garbage
- Our Predators are fucking insane, and are fucking terrifying. We literally call their deployment case "the coffin".garbage
- Fun things like the parasite UAVs they carry like Finder, which drop off from the Predator and are scanning for thermals and any cell transmissions.garbage
- While the Predator is in loiter mode looking for its target. I saw one while driving on some backroads in Nevada once and almost shit my pants.garbage
- Did not realize that I was getting really close to Area 51, and I guarantee you a trainee was told to use me as a training exercise. "Get those plates".garbage
- Me thinking "Why's that plane so low? Oh my god that's not a plane" and coming up with excuses that I missed my turn on my way to the Alien brothel.garbage
- Which is actually real. There's a combo gas station, restaurant and alien-themed whorehouse out there.garbage
- haha, i had some friends on an art residency out there and it looked bonkers.kingsteven
- i remember reading that the Iranians program their drones to hide behind the US drones while landing as it's the only way they can get close to US bases :-|kingsteven
- they don't seem to have much success in ukraine with them either - attempting to attack field targetskingsteven
- Interesting on the tailing drones, do you have a link?garbage
- think i read it on twitter but this seems to be the source: https://www.politico…kingsteven
- Those iranian drones are the modern day 'doodelebugs' - useless for anything other than terrorisatoin of vaguely-described large population centres.Nairn
- PhanLo0
'If the cloud is smaller than your thumb, then you run for the hills,
if it's bigger than your thumb, don't bother running...'
-- Debunked many timesi_monk
- Surviving would be thumbs downPhanLo
- https://www.youtube.…PhanLo
- Ramanisky25
- https://media.tenor.…_niko
- I think it's the best they can do, pretend to retaliate against Israel._niko
- https://i.imgur.com/…Gnash
- the face only a mother-aunt could love ♥_niko
- really demonstrating your in-depth knowledge of the middle east with that meme gnash :-|kingsteven
- Iran committing suicide?Krassy
- Give those genocidal cunts hell, Iran.Milan
- also - religious wars fought in 20224?!? Humanity still living in ancient-think times. SMH.Krassy
- https://media1.tenor…_niko
- Only a terminally online moron would cheer on Iran12xu
- nobody's cheering on iran you fucking doltkingsteven
- https://media1.giphy…YakuZoku
- @kingsteven. you missed milan.pango
- Can we move on to WW4 now?neverscared
- Lol, apologies. Not sure if I missed the comment or the comma.kingsteven
- THE IRON DOME!!11milfhunter
- Iran is basically a meme nowGnash
- NBQ00-5
- yuekit-2
IDF intel chief warns 'worst is yet to come'
https://www.jpost.com/israel-ham…
Israeli embassies around the world put on high alert amid Iranian threats
- Isn’t Jpost Right Conservative?maquito
- Jpost is pretty much a stenographer for the IOF, regardless of their supposed editorial stance.face_melter
- Israeli politics overall is right-wing, even the "left-wing" alternative is just another right-winger.yuekit
- sted2
Poland quits the international agreement what limits the the maximum number of forces that can be stationed in one place.
- neverscared0
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GJGh…
EU leaders urged to put economies ‘on war footing’ at Ukraine negotiations
- its happening.... get your bunkers pimped up...neverscared
- Sons of a...OBBTKN
- how do you conclude WW3 from this?NBQ00
- more like how do u not....neverscared
- Ideally just melt in the first wavePhanLo
- Ramanisky23
Currently watching this one.
- yeah, same here ... watched the first two episodes, fairly decent history lessonBluejam
- Must watch: The Fog of War, 11 Lessons (Robert McNamara)nb
- ^ will add to watchlist.. thanksRamanisky2
- The Fog of War will make you uneasy for a bit, but is a must watch.garbage
- Fog of War is even better if you already know some of this history. It assumes some familiarity.nb
- https://archive.org/…nb
- ^ Thanks nbRamanisky2
- NBQ000
Russian media: what a nuclear attack on the USA would look like (video)
https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/…
How sad is this. We have all the money and creativity in the world and use it to destroy ourselves. Hopefully not.
- oh no!
https://static.wikia…pango - Tzar Dumba_niko
- "This clip is from the movie < insert hollywood blockbuster >."Bluejam
- We continue wasting precious resources on wars, instead of doing what is necessary to avoid them, in the name of filthy moneyOBBTKN
- We have not evolved, we are still big idiot monkeys. What a silly world we are leaving our children. It's both sad and infuriating.OBBTKN
- The world has forgotten the past and our ability to kill. In my country we have been at war for decades...OBBTKN
- and believe me, it's not as funny as they show it in the movies.
It's what I fear most in my life. Not for me, but for our young people.OBBTKN - strategic deterrence.
the us has the same ones (trident).uan
- oh no!
- NBQ00-8
- milking the doomscrolling hardBluejam
- yesNBQ00
- https://i.gifer.com/…pango
- NBQ00-5
- NBQ00-6
“World War III is about to begin. Everyone should be ready!” Kim Jong-un said.
He stated that due to the escalation in the Middle East, the "flames of war" may spread to other regions of the world.
https://x.com/NOELreports/status…
- What an odd photoGnash
- Love is in the airOBBTKN
- Where the FUN isRamanisky2
- Just about to cover him in butter and let him fly down a slip n slide.PhanLo
