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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I am really tired of our dumbass politicians giving away our best export for FREE!!! Why should Libya, Iraq, Syria get all the future infrastructure spending??? We can use that at home! If we stop exporting WAR we can make America Great Again!! Just think about it, we will save on transport of men and materials = more Profit!! More banker loans to rebuild after we destroy everything. Just wreck all the old stuff in your state so we can rebuild from new.... that's millions of new jobs! Jobs for everyone!! (if you survive of course - but perhaps your annoying neighbor will be gone!) We need to keep our Number one export here at home, we need it right here! Perhaps we can even then borrow from the AIIB and wipe our debts clean. It's a win win win situation. Let's start a WAR now with ourselves. I am sure it won't take long to find a reason as we are good at doing it abroad.
"Let's start a WAR now with ourselves." there already is one, unfortunately.
In very broad terms, it is a decadent, statist, whatever class that leverage govt to take whatever they can grab from good, productive ppl with a moral compass, that even though it gets out of adjustment, always ends up adjusting back to N.
the zio-cons are the masters of exploiting this dichotomy, but in the end, they are on the evil side, along with the 'whatever class'.
Now that Putin has established who is the real threat, I hope he will stop calling US and Europe as "our partners".
he will not. I think it is a linguistic and cultural thing. I have heard Russians and Ukrainians use that term when talking about someone they do business with.
We have a couple of real Russians here, so maybe they can verify if I am correct.
'Partners' is diplomat speech. It enables people to discuss things with other people they may truly despise without burning bridges through stupid childish petulence.
More recently, I am sure Putin at least has been using it sarcastically. Lavrov, however, it too much of a diplomat to do that.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/media.wbur.org/wordpress/11/files/2015/05/0512_k...
Putin meeting Kerry showing him his 'you fucking stupid imbecile' look. Lavrov meanwhile does his 'you cannot be serious' impression.
I hate diplomatic speech. I think it's responsible for all the woes in the world.
I say 'call a spade, a spade' and 'call a fucker, a fucker', even if it means being redundant.
Properly used, diplomatic speech allows you to call someone a motherfucker to their face even when in polite company and in the presence of ladies.
Calling someone a motherfucker is a waste of breath unless their ears turn pink.
"The annexation of Crimea ..."
Interesting.
They can have a vote for independence in Quebec, Scotland, but not Crimea.
Nor right here in the USA.
At least one nation on this planet has competent leadership.
Well putin is a jew so go figure you folks love him.
http://youtu.be/Hln_9rxYwfU
And you're a retard? Moron? Cretin? Imbecile? Half wit? You're certainly mentally deficient, I'm just not sure quite the correct technical term to use with you. Please advise.
You have the fucking intelligence of a gum ball.
da da - that whole Russian Orthodox thing is just for show to fool the masses.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GVlx76Yn-g
Ok, the majority here agree with Putin's assessment.
Yet, all of the hot war discussion seems way of target here.
This shit is full spectrum now, not just guns, ships and jets.
We know what the strategic purpose of the new oil export law in the US is about.
So, fuck the oil card for a minute,
1. It is in Russia's (China's) interest to spread U.S. Military thin in unwinable hot conflicts. Check.
2. The UN Security Council is in permanent stalemate and a non-entity. Check.
3. China is the largest holder of US Treasuries (behind the Fucking Fed itself). While not a permanent threat, they could dump on the market driving interest rates way up. The contagion would damage the US economy. Option.
4. The US dollar reserve currency enables all of this "exceptionalism", "grand chessboard", and "world hegemony" crap. Without it, you have a high debt, welfare-bully state called the USA. No other currency is a replacement at this point.
How to kill the dollar?
A. Cause hyper-inflation of the dollar.Work in progress.
B. Set up alternative banking system. Work in progress.
C. Cause a Petro-dollar demise. Work in progress.
D. Convert to gold-Backed Ruble/Yuan/Swiss Franc/Indian Rupee. Work in progress.
E. Drive the Fed to monitise 100% of US debt. Work in progress.
F. Stop taking US Dollar as currency for in country and intra-country transactions. Work in progress.
What else Droogies?
A-E - a good start.
F - team up with the Taliban to crush poppy growing in Afghanistan. Benefits - reduces drug problem in Russia, Europe, etc but most importantly it would put a serious squeeze on CIA funding.
this scenario playing out today between the great powers, ie. russia, ussa, eu, china and japan is [?] by following the footprint of complacencism gone mad?!?
1904-05 russo-jap war {sick man #2}
China's 'Qing Dynasty' gonzo 1911
1915-17 bolsheviks revolution (Russian Empire gonzo, replaced by Marxist/ Lenin/ Stalinism Communism
wwi 1917 ME demarcated (sykes-picot)
Austria-Hungary Empire gonzo 1917
Ottoman Empire {sick man #1} gonzo 1917 left with an ataturk that disbands the calphate and throws-up religion from its constitution (no moar fez for you)
Japan's Empire needs a Japanese Monroe [S. America's grocery store of goody's?] Doctrine' called Autarky' via zee `Qing de'china' sub-ordinates?'
Japan invades china in 1st war 1894-95 and again...the 2nd Jap-Sino war 1937-45-- but, what we have here is the crust of my thesis?
what we have yerteryear is quite similar to the situation in the MENA and Eurasia today?
China was fighting a civil war from 1927-50 within a fucking regional war with Japan. the ussa did everything in its power to defeat mao [prc] and keep the nat'list Chiang kai Shek (usa backed-up with Truman/Marshall dumping several billion dollars to prop-up kai Shek' nationalist party (corrupt to the core) from 1945-49. Russia's Stalin backed Mao and the communist won. Chiang kai Shek left for Formosa[Taiwan] with russia getting back n. korea and ussa taking control of s. korea as agreed upon. (btw, this hermit kingdom belonged to russia before the jap-russo war.)
so what we have in turkey is a civil war?
and what we have in Iraq is a civil war?
so, this means what we have in syria and yemen are also civil wars.
this was the mesopotamian landscape, once the levant before britain and france and the ussa drew lines in the sand. yes/ no?
what we have today as yesteryear is one big-fucking civil/sectarian war in the middle-east and a regional proxy war between russia/ china (axis of evil--- laugh if you must, because i'm laughing as i write) and the allied forces of Europe/ ussa.
it's remarkable that a quadrant of civil wars all proxy fights fomented by the saudi's and jews... is but a proxy war for the '21St Century Silk Road Autarky' for a now defunct an bankrupt ussa that could have had its cake and eaten it too, if not for the bush#43/Cheney [war criminal neo-con that bankrupt'd america] & rumsfeld, the unknown known asshole that molded a democracy into a dictatorship via the baby-bush fascist foreign policy bullshit[!], and the unmentionable watercarrier we now know as hole-n-one...obi1.
from $4trillion in debt to $20Trillion in 16 fucking years does a democracy ?can? afford....
jmo
I know the feeling.
If only to russian
bit verbose vlad. permit me to condense: they're comin' for ya vlad and won't stop unless stopped! keep tweakin' the nukes.
Thanks to Mr. Putin for stating the obvious.
The true axis of evil:
DC - Wall St - City of London - Basel - Tel Aviv
So Vlad, if you are going to nuke y(our) enemies please target accordingly.
Those of us in flyover country will have the popcorn ready.
Pentagram of Evil
US, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Turkey, Qatar
It's hard to underestimate how much better off America and the world would be if Putin leveled DC and Wall Street
Funny how only putin can save us-when he won't.
Spineless much?
hard to overestimate
770 Eastern Parkway New York City?
and ... this ... is suddenly 'news' .. in Pootie-world?
hahahaa!
A really slow news day, huh?
Element, it's not supposed to be news.
It's a billet doux from Putin to Obama.
Ever since the Horse's Puss (John Kerry) announced a few weeks ago that Bashar al Assad's removal from office was no longer a precondition for our murderous Saudi allies to sit down and talk cease fire for the Syrian Civil War, until a day ago when Obama, hisself, said that he was delaying sanctions on the Iranians, I've been worried Washington was only flattering the Kremlin into thinking that the US considered Russia to be ahead of the game.
Not 'flattered' the way the fox successfully flattered the crow in the fable; more like how the black crow fails to flatter Der Steppenfox in another version of the story.
Of course, Putin didn't over estimate what Washington's reverse on Assad really meant. He saw it as just more neocon beginners chess moves.
Declaring the US as Russia's biggest security threat, puts to bed any advantage the Negro may think he got from giving Assad more time.
The US is clearly trying to pass the buck for the creation of ISIS on to Turkey. I hope Putin's List contains evidence to fully implicate the US in spite of their attempts to weasel out of responsibility.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/bombshell-the-turkish-assault-on-russias-su...
it is too bad diplomacy prevents russia from revealing that the real problem is not the usa per se. the real problem are the zionazis running the place. for those who don't understand why putin is held in such high esteem by the more knowledgable population(obambam gave us a shoutout) is because we recognize the usa has been taken over by the cabal of zionazis who are using the usa for their own benefit at the expense of the american people. putin and china are the only ones with the cajones to stand up the zionazis. putin deserves the support of every american.
"why putin is held in such high esteem by the more knowledgable population(obambam gave us a shoutout) is because we recogn"
That is a logical fallacy. There are no putin worshippers who are 'knowledgeable".
Hell. I don't think that many russians are "knowledgeable".
Putin is a jewish agent. Always has been.
http://youtu.be/Hln_9rxYwfU
I honestly have never met an intelligent or 'knowledgeable' russian.
The rus are the trash of europe.
I'm not one to cast aspersions but you're a fucking idiot.
Damm it Spock, "Beam alibi up to the deck. I want to have a drink." "Scotty fetch your finist Scotch."
Headline should read,
"Putin Names Obama, Hillary, Kerry, McCain, Lindsay and their ilk As Threat To Russian National Security In New Strategy Document."Damm this is getting so predictable...Scotty, "beam me up to the deck."
Ukraine is only on hold.
Show me better on-the-ground Ukraine battle footage if you have links.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LzEx03UQFI&index=30&list=PLw613M86o5o5z...
Some of the vids between Dispatch 80 and Dispatch 100 and particularly bloody.
The Ukraine will NEVER take NovoRussia. The Nudelman-Soros-ZATO-Nazi Ukraine cannot field a decent army. They can force conscripts but most will not fight or will surrender as fast as possible - which is the right thing to do. They can keep trying to bring in Mercs but they will lose.
Today - Donetsk and Lugansk aka DPR and LPR can field an army that could beat most western European countries armies. Much of their gear came from the Ukrainian Army ditching it during two cauldrons (encirclements).
DPR PM Alexander Zakarchenko said there will never be a Minsk 3. Minsk 1 and Minsk 2 were the west including Kerry et al suing for a ceasefire because LPR and DPR were destroying Kiev on the battlefield.
Zakarchenko said that is there is a next time - they will not stop. They will keep going and taking more land.
Donetsk around Christmas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag99dGhRqwQ
Looks like a normal city.
The following is an interesting interview in that it provides a looking glass into the thought processes of a segment of the American establishement. - Eric Dubin, Managing Editor, The News Doctors
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We are moving towards a "major war" - Michael T. Flynn, retired United States Army lieutenant general, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
http://thenewsdoctors.com/?p=574321
i did not read the strategy paper. did it mention the international space station? did it mention sea launch?
Mr. Putin,
Not all of the US are a threat to Russia, just certain select criminal assholes in key leadership positions.
Escalation in Syria may lead to WW3 in 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uODxeO4ViMg
ONLY A BELATED TIT
for western tats
http://russia-insider.com/en/2015/02/06/3191
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/09/politics/joseph-dunford-russia-greatest-th...
TITS HAPPEN
Also mark the first nuke strike target on yellow stone national park
with bunker buster missiles loaded with Hydrogen bombs (say 10) of megatons yield
as there is the worlds biggest (monster) volcano lies sleeping
Let it awaken and it will destroy all the America slowly
with an interesting spectacle all the northern America will be destroyed
Fire & Brimstone
to the homosexuals
It should be obvious by now, even in my black list USA government (not the beople) is by far #1 dangerous country for humanity than I$I$ , due to it's run by force that is not human.It ought to be destroyed, stop any election,seize the power(white house and pentagon) kick out every son of bitches from every office up to down discusses what's been wrong with the country openly for one year and come to consensus that $dollar should be printed by people govt, no fund for election no devil worshipers and put zem in bottomless pit.At least this was my wish list to do.
I am saying clean the house or too late that dark cabal power seek to destroy now even its citizen, shit the term 'terrorist' wouldn't have been known to us if a terrorist country itself USA allowed to have such accumulated dark force and run by devil.
Honestly i don't see any human power will able to do this house cleaning, it is too powerful even to be touched except by spiritual means because it's dark spiritual force, remember
http://biblehub.com/ephesians/6-12.htm
'For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." Ephesians 6:12 i am coating the Bible.If this verse said 2000 years ago then how about now?
How many of us even accept the existence of GOD? If we don't want to hear God's call to us and ignored HIM and do our stuff on our way and doesn't expect such thing to be reality? Ignorance #1
If we hadn't make God part of our life,then what the fuck we expect GOD to do it about? forbid this from happening to us? Helo you have a freewill if u want it u will get it,and for God to intervene you must diligently pray and ask HIM, right?
Today killing black or anybody on a broad day by a police is not only possible but a reality.
This mass killing and human migration suffering whether be it in ME or USA or Africa is increasing from year to year,just see year 2015 alone and what will be next.We are doomed unless we realize this aspect too.No book even Qur'an (sorry my Muslim brothers) will tell you this reason except the Holy Bible.
If what God has done to Sodom and Gomorrah and put the lesson for us in the Bible why the hell do we allowed it to be legal?Human modernity or ignorance or is it free country or what? Are USA high court, USA congress are above GOD to rewright what was BAD sinn to be human right?
This show GOD's wisdom and patience for everyone to make his mind and buckle up for the end some of you especiall GAY/Faggotes might not like this comment.
How did we come to this point,the cost of silence ?