Posted on 09/21/2022 7:56:03 PM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
A 2019 Rand Corporation study commissioned by the US Army laid out exactly what the plan to undermine and weaken Russia through military support would be. The study suggested arming Ukraine, imposing sanctions on Russia, ramping up economic warfare, and taking a more aggressive and militaristic posture toward the United States international rival - all while warning this could lead to a military invasion of Ukraine.
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It is this study, Extending Russia Competing from Advantageous Ground, which has been online since April, 2019.
"Editor's Note, September 2022: We encourage you to explore this report and its accompanying research brief. However, because Russian entities and individuals sympathetic to Putin's decision to invade Ukraine have mischaracterized this research in recent weeks, we also encourage you to explore this helpful resource on Russia's “firehose of falsehood” approach to propaganda and our research on “Truth Decay,” which is a phenomenon that is driven in part by the spread of disinformation."It has been posted as the CIA Deepstate Bogeyman Damning Document of EVIL a half dozen times already. Maybe reading for meaning instead of reanding to make cheap accusations is warranted?
There's nothing about intent that can be inferred from the existence of a plan.
OK, you’ve made the accusation, Now you provide the proof!
Exactly.
Our guys didn't think "artillery" like the Russians did...
Russia / Putin had indeed been planning for this war for some time. Crimea was the first act. Plans were stalled by Trump’s election. After Trump was gone, it resumed.
Previous similar acts were the actions against Georgia that were thwarted. Putin is going to Putin.
You should have called Putin and told him not to start the war. He’s been setting this up for many years if not decades. He started the war. He invaded Ukraine. Also - Crimea, Georgia, etc.? His speeches wanting the Soviet Union back, etc.?
Only someone with their head in the sand or elsewhere doesn’t know that.
So embarrassing and ridiculous that people continue to defend this madman. How willfully ignorant and clueless do you have to be?
Unrelated to the topic of this thread’s do people honestly believe that deluge of rancid keywords accomplishes anything?
A hoot! Nuland plays Larry
Wow, we must be really good at commanding Russian forces to invade other countries all these years. If it wasn’t for us the Russians wouldn’t even know how to drive their tanks or which direction to drive them.
I bet you think women provoke their own rape, too, and neocon candy salesmen force pedophiles to offer kids candy to lure them into their vans.
Russia started invading parts of Ukraine before this report was even written.
Jimmy Dore is a socialist Bernie Sanders supporter. Every day this clown links to socialist content on FR. Why?
Guess where she is now.
I’m going to wager a guess Putin also started thinking what to do after euromaiden
Minsk failed
And other contributors
So here we are
The Syrian approach Russia tried is not working at least fast enough
So here we are
I figured they’d announce they were going to incorporate anti terrorism language after the spate of murders and assasinations of pro Russian civilians which Ukraine finally took responsibility for I think the two prosecutors
I didn’t expect this referendum and departure from limited war with mostly non Russian regulars fighters
Admittedly
OK. simple Danny, How long has Crimea been Russian ?
When I was in Moscow, *multiple times over nearly a decade (under Clinton), and by order, US and NATO exchanged war plan’s with Russian CIS command war chiefs 🇷🇺🇨🇳
Not defining full scope here, but these plans included myriad war planning scenarios, and their possible exploitation from various locations, including possible attacks against US and US allies, including from previously friendly countries which had been taken over by new CCCP/CIS and CCP/NK proxies.
🇺🇸 So of course, ABSOLUTELY YES — Scenarios included reaction to Russian’s subordinate CIS Order of Battle and likely operations from potential marshalling from invaded proxies such as Canada, Ukraine, the Balkins, Syria, Libya, Iran, etc, etc, etc... AND THANKFULLY I GUESS, MORE !!!/s
Over the years, (MULTIPLE TIMES), there were even groups of US and NATO officers which would meet with Russian officers (well known/studied and openly communist and antagonistic toward US, EU, and Israel), to 2000, who were in command authority over the combined forces of Russia’s subordinate CIS (which at the time included >Ukraine<), to “openly” discuss both CIS and US/NATO exchanged documents.
((Clinton would twice attempt to coax Russian Federation membership to NATO, but was turned down under Yeltsin [who was a true pupprt] the first time, as RusFed wouldn’t join unless given position of permanent control over NATO.
It was a joke, but blatantly revealed the yet survived goal of the necessarily transformed CCCP to CIS of ascendancy over European politics, economy, and foreign policy. While I hated who and what Clinton really was [ideologically a seditious and treasonous social and economic Marxist globalist, who justifiably should have been hanged or shot], we believe Clinton was significantly taken back on multiple occasions, by how he was rebuffed by the global leftist he sought to assist in keeping power behind the scenes in Moscow and within the very active Communist Internationale, which was simultaneously behind Gorbachev’s then bery string efforts through Green Cross to blueprint all the “climate accords” and UN-A21 and UN-A30))
We even had Russian/CIS war planning CDR’s regularly visiting and meeting US and NATO war planners at foreign bases and agencies from Germany, Belgium, Britain, France, Italy, Canada and others, as well as at military bases across the US, where we would always give tours, normally in advance of the war planners get together’s ordered by Clinton and his very carefully chosen staff.
All through this time, the US and NATO only ever met in Moscow at the same Russian/CIS location. So in a nutshell, closed to the US. Didn’t matter if taking place under Yeltsin or Putin.
At the end of the day however, the US DoD/Pentagon and NATO had for decades been deeply penetrated, so Russian CDR’s already knew what we shared with them, which was confirmed over and over. It was a joke from that stand point.
What we see today on FR is a generatiinal wave of younger people who are literally illiterate and clueless as to the contextual past, and have no real baseline or context to form realistic conclusions. As such, they are truly nothing more than pawns with good intentions, and hopefully a desire for truth and justice. 🇺🇸🇮🇱🎚
So Jimmy Dore is on Youtube. I guess that makes him an expert.
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