Putin Names US As Threat To Russian National Security In New Strategy Document
It’s no secret that relations between Moscow and the West have deteriorated the post-Cold War lows.
The annexation of Crimea and the conflict in Ukraine have pushed the two sides to the brink of a Baltic battle while Russia’s intervention in Syria changed the West’s calculus when it comes to pushing for regime change in the Mid-East.
Earlier this year, in a hilariously accurate assessment of US foreign policy, Vladimir Putin’s Security Council issued a statement entitled "About The US National Security Strategy". Here are some notable excerpts (translated):
The armed forces are considered as the basis of US national security and military superiority is considered a major factor in the American world leadership. While maintaining the continuity of the plants to use military force unilaterally and anywhere in the world, as well as to maintain a military presence abroad...
Significant efforts by the US and its allies will be directed to the formation of anti-Russian policy states, with which Russia has established partnership relations, as well as to reduce Russian influence in the former Soviet Union.
Continue the policy of preserving the global dominance of the United States, increasing the combat capabilities of NATO, as well as to strengthen the US military presence in the Asia-Tihokeanskom region. Military force will continue to be considered as the primary means of ensuring national security and interests of the United States.
Becoming more widespread to eliminate unwanted US political regimes acquire advanced technology "color revolutions" with a high probability of their application in relation to Russia.
Thus, the strategy was developed on the basis of American exceptionalism, the right to take unilateral action to protect and promote the interests of the United States in the world and bears the active anti-Russian charge.
In other words, Moscow views US foreign policy as decidedly Russophobic and The Kremlin pretty clearly sees Washington as a threat to Russia’s security. Well on New Year’s Eve, Vladimir Putin made it official by signing a new appraisal of his country’s national security which, for the first time, lists the US as a threat. Here’s Reuters:
The document, "About the Strategy of National Security of Russian Federation", was signed by President Vladimir Putin on New Year's Eve. It replaces a 2009 version, endorsed by then- President Dmitry Medvedev, the current prime minister, which mentioned neither the United States not NATO.
It says Russia has managed to heighten its role in solving global problems and international conflicts. That heightened role has caused a reaction by the West.
"The strengthening of Russia happens against the background of new threats to the national security, which has complex and interrelated nature," the document goes on to note.
Conducting an independent policy, "both international and domestic" has caused "counteraction from the USA and its allies, which are striving to retain their dominance in global affairs."
That in turn is likely to lead to "political, economical, military and informational pressure on Russia."
The document also implicates Washington in staging "anti-constitutional coup d'etat in Ukraine", which is of course true. The result: a protracted civil war and a US puppet government that is less popular than its Russia-backed predecessor.
The document also reiterates Russia's concerns about the expansion and strengthening of NATO. Here's an excerpt:
The buildup of the military potential of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and vesting it with global functions implemented in violations of norms of international law, boosting military activity of the bloc’s countries, further expansion of the alliance, the approach of its military infrastructure to Russian borders create a threat to the national security.”
The references are to the multiple war games and snap drills NATO has conducted near Russia's borders over the past nine months and to the inclusion of Montenegro in the alliance (documented here).
Of course one doesn't necessarily have to interpret the document in the way the Western media has. Compare and contrast the following two headlines, the first from Reuters and the second from Sputnik:
- Russia Outlines Priorities in Relations with US, EU and NATO
- Putin names United States among threats in new Russian security strategy
Those two pieces refer to the very same document although you wouldn't know it by what's implied. Here are some excerpts from the Sputnik piece:
The strategy defines main venues of Russia-US partnership on the global arena as the improvement of mechanisms of arms controls, the strengthening of mutual trust measures, joint efforts in the area of WMD non-proliferation, expanded cooperation in the fight against terrorism as well as in the resolution of regional conflicts.
"Russia supports the strengthening of mutually-beneficial cooperation with the European countries, the European Union…with the goal of developing a transparent system of collective security in the Euro-Atlantic region based on clearly-defined legal agreements," the text of the document, posted on Thursday on the government's legal information portal, says.
According to the document, Russia continues to view NATO expansion and military activities near Russian borders as a major threat to its security and a violation of international laws, but is ready to develop relations with the Alliance in the interests of the European security.
The takeaway here probably isn't whether or not the US is listed as a "threat" to Russia's national security but rather that The Kremlin if officially recognizing Russia's role in a kind of new world order wherein all matters of geopolitical significance are no longer decided in Washington.
In other words, the era of unipolarity and US hegemony (which has lasted nearly a quarter century) has come to an end and Russia's discussion of the backlash from the US and NATO isn't so much an effort to cast aspersions (i.e. to call this country or that country "a threat") as it is to outline and assess the new reality.
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......RUSSIA's axis of evil......
USA - England - and every other bitchassed (UN)sovereign nation relying on 'mericas money printing press, commonly referred to as NATO!
I betcha, 0bama’s biggest disappointment has been… winning his second term!
The 0bamas were ready to leave the White House 3 years ago. They were sitting on suitcases full of everything and anything with the Presidential Seal on it, including towels, bathrobes and slippers, forks and pens, napkins and toilet paper.
Since then, His Cluelessness has been acting as a bored stoner counting minutes ‘till this presidential nightmare finally ends, and puffing the best ganja the taxpayers’ money can buy. I think? ;-)
Looney
Golfer in Chief
Prom Queen
Jeopardy bonus question...
Who is Barrack Hussein Obama?
Hey Tyler! You've got your Reuters/Sputnik headlines backwards.
When asked why Russia did not intervene immediately against the USSA backed coup in Kiev by restoring Yanukovich, an advisor for Putin offer the following analogy:
Imagine a huge stinking pile of shit. Then imagine striking it with your fist.
Here's the NATO EVIL Turk poking the bear again....Russia needs a contract thug on this guy:
http://journal-neo.org/2015/12/31/recep-erdogan-first-as-tragedy-second-...
Erdogan is an idiot. Sooner or later their military should kick him out, or they'll end up with a smaller country to worry about...
Turkish military has been effectively neutralized by Erdogan. Now only an external shock can restore the Turkish people to consciousness.
And while we're at it, could somebody take a few minutes to rewrite those Google translations into something legible?
y3maxx: Barrack Hussein Obama?
Who cares.
Article: References to MULTIPLE WAR games
Russia knows what is coming to their borders. Putin, and the Europeans are about to start The Grand Chessboard Game. Then, once China’s join in—obliged to take side once the oil is well over $200 dollars a barrel—that will become The Grand Eurasia Chessboard Game. If it comes to America, we will be looking at WW-3.
Zbigniew Brzezinski, September 1998:
The task facing the United States is to manage the conflicts and relationships in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East so that no rival superpower arises to threaten our interests or our well-being.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Grand-Chessboard-Geostrategic-Imperatives/dp/0465027261
Drooogies,
That fucking propaganda book is on par with Mein Kampf.
The Obomber unabridged version is "I'm Camp"
It's worthwhile reading the propaganda books - not because they're worth believing in, but because those who control the world do.
@fireman
LOL
holy shit. just read the book summary. its like reading current geopolitical events, except this book was written almost 20 years ago... totaly reading this over the next few weeks
Zig plagerized the concept from the british empire.........
'In a phrase coined by Captain Arthur Connolly of the East India Company before he was beheaded in Bokhara for spying in 1842, a "Great Game" was played between Tsarist Russia and Victorian England for supremacy in Central Asia. At stake was the security of India, key to the wealth of the British Empire. When play began early in the 19th century, the frontiers of the two imperial powers lay two thousand miles apart, across vast deserts and almost impassable mountain ranges; by the end, only 20 miles separated the two rivals.'
http://www.amazon.com/The-Great-Game-Struggle-Kodansha/dp/1568360223
What has the Republicans, Democrats, military or anyone done anything to stop him or his z-bosses?
America is TOTALLY corrupt from top to bottom.
I bet Putin signed that document with this playing in the background - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTTC_fD598A
massive lol. dumbass....
The US is a threat to every human being (except Israelis).
US is a stupid elephant in a china shop and Israel is ridding on her neck.
Hey, I got news for you Putin; the US is a National Security Threat to every Country on the Planet.
Including itself!!
Exceptional is a pernicious delusion.
I seem to remember the mythical Aryan race being regarded as exceptional. Til Berlin surrendered. And the land of the rising sun thought their fortitude would bring them victory, until the mushroom cloud. Historys littered with overconfident delusionists,
The idea of the exceptional American goes back to at least Toqueville, who viewed the freedom and industry of Americans in a good light. Once the world got increasingly into isms, e.g. socialism, communism, captilism, words started to lose their meaning.
Now it seems that American exceptionalism has been defined as an exceptional right to bully the rest of the world. For most of its history, America did not even care about the rest of the world, except to be left alone and out of foreign entanglements. I would prefer to think that we Americans, mostly, would prefer the first idea of exceptional to the one Obama promalgates
http://www.blacklistednews.com/HOW_CLINTON_AND_COMPANY_AND_THE_BANKERS_P...
...for those who need an introduction to the international financial buccaneers who control our lives, was the general director of the Harvard Institute of International Development (HIID) in Moscow (1992-1997), who facilitated the crippling of the Russian economy and the plundering of its industrial and manufacturing infrastructure with a strategy concocted by Larry Summers, Andre Schliefer (HIID's Cambridge-based manager), Jeffrey Sachs and his Swedish sidekick Anders Aslund, and a host of private players from banks and investment houses in Boston and New York -- a plan approved and assisted by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
Contagion can be read on many different levels.
At its simplest, it is a breezy, slightly cynical, highly entertaining narrative of Russian history from the last months of Gorbachev's rule to April 2000 -- a period which saw Russia transformed from a decaying socialist economy (which despite its shortcomings, provided a modest standard of living to its citizens) to a "managed economy" where home-grown gangsters and socialist theoreticians from the West, like Hay and his fellow Harvardian Jeffrey Sachs, delivered 2,500 percent inflation and indescribable poverty, and transferred the ownership of Russian industry to Western financiers.
Williamson was an eyewitness who lived on and off in Russia for more than ten years, where she reported on all things Russian for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and a host of other equally reputable publications. She knew and interviewed just about everybody involved in this gargantuan plundering scheme: Russian politicians and businessmen, the new "gangster" capitalists and their American sponsors from the IMF, the World Bank, USAID, Credit Suisse First Boston, the CIA, the KGB -- all in all, hundreds of sources who spoke candidly, often ruthlessly, of their parts in this terrible human drama.
Her account is filled with quotations from interviews with top aides of Yeltsin and Clinton, all down through the ranks of the two hierarchical societies to the proliferating mass of Russian destitute, pornographers, pimps, drug dealers, and prostitutes. Some of the principal characters, of course, refused to talk to Williamson, such as Bill Clinton's longtime friend from Oxford, Strobe Talbott, now a deputy secretary of state and, Williamson suspects, a onetime KGB operative whose claim to fame is a deceitful translation of the Khrushchev Memoirs. (A KGB colonel refused to confirm or deny to Williamson that Clinton and Talbott visited North Vietnam together in 1971 -- though he did confirm their contacts with the KGB for their protests against the U.S. war in Vietnam in Moscow. See especially footnote 1, page 210.)
The 546-page book (the best part of which is the footnotes) gives a nearly day-by-day report on what happened to Russia; left unstated, but implied on every page, is the assumption that those in the United States who think what happened in Russia "can't happen here" better realize it can happen here.
Once the Clinton regime and its lapdogs in the media defined Russian thug Boris Yeltsin as a "democrat," the wholesale looting of Russia began. According to the socialist theoreticians at Harvard, Russia needed to be brought into the New World Order in a hurry; and what better way to do it than Sachs' "shock therapy" -- a plan that empowered the degenerate, third-generation descendants of the original Bolsheviks by assigning them the deeds of Russia's mightiest state-owned industries -- including the giant gas, oil, electrical, and telecommunications industries, the world's largest paper, iron, and steel factories, the world's richest gold, silver, diamond, and platinum mines, automobile and airplane factories, etc. -- who, in turn, sold some of their shares of the properties to Westerners for a song, and pocketed the cash, while retaining control of the companies...
https://www.rt.com/news/327608-russia-national-security-strategy/
Geez, couldn't you at least provide a warning that the article you linked to contained graphic images?
What graphic images?
Lumberjack - Isnt it amazing how leadership continues to sell there people down the river whether your a Russian or American? Its a dirty world and the only thing I can say by research is it is better to be a cynic than a dreamer but dont let the dreamer part completely die.
Really?
Hitler was right and the what jews did to Germany they are now doing to the world. jews are an evil race of lower astral demons.
http://youtu.be/x4obeqaxhRs
Sorry.
He should have gone farther to call the US government a threat to the US population and world population. Come on Vlad. Make a real statement.
Enjoyed Cryptonomicon immensely
The sad thing is, that those, who should listen to Putin´s announcement, are so full of themselves.
They really don´t realize, that he takes them down when he´s had enough of this.
Allow me to help you see things clearer... A useful and operational Definition of what constitutes a Rogue State, or an Axis of Evil:
Whenever a Nation/State or Alliance of Sovereign Nations defy the Private Cartel of Central Bankers, as headed by the US Federal Reserve, and threaten its fiat currency system in any way (e.g. buy/sell oil or gold in anything other than USD/Petrodollars), or resists its system of leveraged and permanent Usury, then that State is labeled a Rogue State and that Alliance is labeled an Axis of Evil.
If they possess non-conventional weapons, i.e. Atomic, Biological or Chemical weapons, which might re-balance the eminent military dominance of conventional and high tech weapons that the Cartel of CBs owns, then such States must be attacked with all means available. Their type of WMD are deemed as 'inhumane' and 'intolerable', when compared to the 'humane' WMDs that the Club of CBs possess.
Note that terms like Rogue or Axis-of-Evil are not absolute terms, but merely propaganda terms. These terms are useful tactically, in marshalling a pretext for action and obtaining sufficient approval or passivity by their domestic populace when action is taken eventually.
It really comes down to this: The Nations opposed to Usury, versus those in favor of Usury, whereby the CB empire of Usury seeks to control every country on the planet, without exception.
And the winner will be the one with the most sustainable Foreign Policy.....
Sometimes stating the obvious is just a way to make you seem closer to your audience.
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In 2016 citizens of Russia Federation will get rid of criminal putin regime as oil prices will plunge, budget deficit will grow, social budget spending will see huge cuts and RUB will crash that will take Russian companies under water as they won’t be able to settle their debts. Social unrests will take over and demand removal of putin regime. That may seem impossible as today putin enjoys 80 – 90% approval. But if you would ask what is Russian approval for USSR day before revolution started – the result would be the same if not even bigger support. When you are only window in the room it doesn’t take much to have huge approval. As things will change – so will support of criminal putin regime.
Russia Federation has planned it’s 2016 budget with oil price around 40$ per barrel.
Russian finance minister sees oil price at $40 per barrel in 2016
Oil export industry makes about 70% of Russia Federation GDP so any changes in oil prices makes big difference in Russia Federation economy.
8 Shades of Crisis – Russia’s Year of Economic Nightmares
So while on the face of it, the energy industry accounts for only around one-quarter of Russian output, in reality it is the source of up to 70 percent of Russia’s gross domestic product, according to research by Andrei Movchan, an associate at the Carnegie Center in Moscow.
That helps explain how, in the late 1980s, a halving in the price of oil precipitated the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Mean time Saudi Arabia panned it’s budget base on 29$ per barrel.
Oil holds losses as Saudi Arabia seen budgeting for lower prices
The kingdom’s 2016 budget is probably based on crude prices of about US$29 a barrel, according Riyadh-based Jadwa Investment Co. US inventories declined 2.25 million barrels last week, according to a Bloomberg survey of analysts before government data Wednesday.
It means that actually there is great probability that Russia is mistaken in it’s predictions and budget planning that can go horribly wrong for criminal putin regime. As it will be forced to cut even more social budget in time when RUB will crash even more because of low oil prices (Battered Russian ruble plunges amid oil price drops) With combination of West sanctions that denies credit for businesses (Russian companies face credit crunch danger) it can start the fire with social unrests. I guess criminal putin regime is aware of this possibility and that is why he signed this law:
Putin signs law allowing federal police to shoot women and children, and fire into crowds
So there is huge tornado coming to sweep Russia economy with criminal putin regime and it will get bloody in Russia. There is no other option how to remove criminal putin regime than revolution. So it will happen. There will be civil war in Russia in 2016. And criminal putin regime will be removed.
Questions remains: who will take power and what will happen with the nukes during criminal putin removal?
So the new guys in charge. Will not be hurt by $20/oil ????
/s.
The reason why putin regime is suffering economic recession is not only because of low oil prices (look at Norway who also is oil exporting country) and EU & US sanctions on putin regime – problem roots goes much deeper than that. It goes back into 2001 – 2003 when oil prices where booming and Russia economy just started to get on it’s feet from crisis that hit 1998.
Cash from oil was flowing in Russia economy and it kept that way for next 10 years which was a chance for putin regime to make decision what way will Russia develop. One option was to invest in developing: industrial complex, agriculture, science, democracy, free market, free media, civil rights, free elections, fight with corruption – that all would bring to Russia more foreign investment, differentiate economy structure, stabilize social structure, etc. But instead putin regime choose different path: create regime control over media, attack opposition till their leaders jailed, killed, silenced, etc. Court system works for regime, but regarding economy putin regime didn’t invest in: industrial complex, agriculture, science, etc. – because it was easier to earn money now from oil export and buy everything needed as import from EU, US, China etc. So year by year more Russian manufacturing companies closed because could not compete with EU, US, China import. In order to stop unemployment level from rising in Russia – putin regime made different steps, like increased bureaucrats, created different kind of projects that had nothing to do with economic reason. Of course all those projects where created in order to steal more and more Russian nation money that was coming in from oil.
So more cash to elite, more simple jobs to people of Russia and everyone put on blind eye on corruption and economic reason and that could work for 10 years. Because oil export was booming, price of oil was high and everyone get his share of a pie. If something was necessary – it was simply imported. So In result today Russia manufacturing industry can’t work without importing many parts that are produced in EU, US. Now what that means for Russia economy in future? It means that as RUB continues to collapse it’s more and more expensive for manufacturing industry to produce anything as they need to import parts from EU, US but they must pay more and more RUB. In result their products get’s more and more expensive and they loose the market share. So they have to lay off more workers and this problem only will increase.
There is no way out of this. RUB will crash because of low oil prices and because Russia economy structure is not differentiated (as for example Norway has) and linked to oil export. Problem with Russia economy started before putin regime invaded Ukraine. It goes back into 2013. So only way for putin regime to stay in power is to create artificial outside enemy in order to mobilize Russian patriotism so that Russian do not to attack putin regime who makes him self as only savior. This can be done only if putin regime controls main stream media – which is what putin regime does. Putin regime and it’s elite knows that there is no way out of this situation. They know Russia is heading for a collapse. But they have no options to solve this. They know they have been stealing oil money for more than 10 years, they know they have been breaking international law by invading other countries like Georgia and Ukraine. They know they can’t simply leave their positions. Because than they will be hanged. And they know they can’t escape Russia economy collapse.
Another stupid comment.
Meanwhile Vlad Putin is more popular than ever among Russian people.
Including those in Crimea and Sevastopol who just voted to be short of electricity needs by 15% for 4 more months rather than acquiesce to Ukraine's gratuitous Russophobic insults.
Zinu, I hope the Ruble collapses, with Russia defaulting on their external debt to the USSA central banksters. As for her Nukes, I hope she saves one for you after destroying Washington, London etc. Be careful what you wish for, Asshole.
Is not be necessary Russia to expend on Latvia any military resources.
Able Latvians flee the country at a pace to alarm. Another ten years only Latvians remaining are those reside in prison or, like Zinu, mental hospital.
Guess whats approval rating for Kim Jong-un in North Korea. Loll there shows they are ready to die for him.
So? Have you any thoughts why putin, hitler, stalin, kim jong-un, mao has/had such "approval" ratings?
What if you where criminal? What if you wanted the biggest heist ever made? What if you wanted to steal not million, not billions but trillions for many years? What if you wanted to steal a whole country? Not only a country – but biggest country in world with all its natural resources?
What would you do? How to achieve that?
Now you are at power and you can steal as much as you want. Never forget to share itwith your mafia.
Now imagine you are a citizen that has been fooled by this criminal. Imagine how it is to acknowledge that your country has been stolen by criminal mafia. Imagine how it feels to know – your country is stolen by mafia. Criminals are at power – you have no access to justice system, you have no access to democracy tools to remove this criminal and actually for some years you where supporting this criminal because you also where fooled by this mafia.
Imagine how it feels for common Russian under criminal putin regime.
Bullshit from the first word to the last. Though you be not shame to copypaste this nonsense in here.
Gee, Zinu - until I got to the last sentence, I thought you were writing about the good 'ol US of A.
Seems like everyone's in some kind of leaky boat.
I've read through your comments, and just for one brief moment I though you weren't referring to the US.
China and Russia got strong because US was obsessed with minerals in Afghanistan and oil in Iraq. A quest for some big companies.