Alla muutama lainaus Rand Corp:n 2019 tutkielmasta, Extending Russia. Vapaasti suomennettuna siis, miten heikentää Venäjää. Rand Corp on käytännössä USAn militarismin "aivot". Kummasti lähti kaikki nämä kohdat etenemään aika nopeasti sen jälkeen, kun "aikuiset" palasivat Valkoiseen taloon.
Muistakaa kuitenkin, että Venäjä hyökkäsi Ukrainaan "täysin ilman provosointia", Venäjä räjäytti omat kaasuputkensa, ja Suomi Ruotsi päättivät omien kansalaistensa aloitteesta ja vakaan harkinnan jälkeen liittyä Natoon.
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR3063.html
"While NATO’s requirement for unanimity makes it unlikely that Ukraine could gain membership in the foreseeable future, Washington’s pushing this possibility could boost Ukrainian resolve while leading Russia to redouble its efforts to forestall such a development."
"Russia’s commitment in Eastern Ukraine is its greatest point of external vulnerability; local opposition is active and Ukraine is a larger and more capable adversary than any of the other states where Russian troops are committed."
"Expanding U.S. assistance to Ukraine, including lethal military assistance, would likely increase the costs to Russia, in both blood and treasure, of holding the Donbass region. More Russian aid to the separatists and an additional Russian troop presence would likely be required, leading to larger expenditures, equipment losses, and Russian casualties. The latter could become quite controversial at home, as it did when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan."
"A variety of options exist for diversifying European gas supplies and extending Russia economically, although it is not clear how much control the United States has over them. A first step would involve stopping Nord Stream 2."
"Finally, any geopolitical moves to extend Russia would also need to consider other options that (for reasons of length and resources) were not considered here in depth—namely, intensifying NATO’s cooperation with Sweden and Finland, pressuring Russia’s claims in the Arctic, and checking its influence in the Arctic."
Muistakaa kuitenkin, että Venäjä hyökkäsi Ukrainaan "täysin ilman provosointia", Venäjä räjäytti omat kaasuputkensa, ja Suomi Ruotsi päättivät omien kansalaistensa aloitteesta ja vakaan harkinnan jälkeen liittyä Natoon.
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR3063.html
"While NATO’s requirement for unanimity makes it unlikely that Ukraine could gain membership in the foreseeable future, Washington’s pushing this possibility could boost Ukrainian resolve while leading Russia to redouble its efforts to forestall such a development."
"Russia’s commitment in Eastern Ukraine is its greatest point of external vulnerability; local opposition is active and Ukraine is a larger and more capable adversary than any of the other states where Russian troops are committed."
"Expanding U.S. assistance to Ukraine, including lethal military assistance, would likely increase the costs to Russia, in both blood and treasure, of holding the Donbass region. More Russian aid to the separatists and an additional Russian troop presence would likely be required, leading to larger expenditures, equipment losses, and Russian casualties. The latter could become quite controversial at home, as it did when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan."
"A variety of options exist for diversifying European gas supplies and extending Russia economically, although it is not clear how much control the United States has over them. A first step would involve stopping Nord Stream 2."
"Finally, any geopolitical moves to extend Russia would also need to consider other options that (for reasons of length and resources) were not considered here in depth—namely, intensifying NATO’s cooperation with Sweden and Finland, pressuring Russia’s claims in the Arctic, and checking its influence in the Arctic."
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Vanhimmat
"Furthermore, Germany appears determined to complete Nord Stream 2. Although European Commission officials have challenged the pipeline, the German regulatory agency responsible for that country’s infrastructure networks argued that the pipeline was not subject to the EU’s energy laws.64 However, when the U.S. Senate approved tougher sanctions on Russia in June 2017, including on Nord Stream 2, the German foreign minister and the Austrian chancellor argued that “Europe’s energy supply is a matter for Europe, not the United States of America.”65 Accordingly, it is difficult to see a way to stop or even limit Nord Stream 2, which might increase European imports from Russia and harm Ukraine and Central European members of the EU as well."
Taisi se tapa kuitenkin löytyä...
Ei kannata myöskään unohtaa Armenian ja azerien kahakointia.
"This chapter describes six possible U.S. moves in the current geopolitical competition: providing lethal arms to Ukraine, resuming support to the Syrian rebels, promoting regime change in Belarus, exploiting Armenian and Azeri tensions, intensifying attention to Central Asia, and isolating Transnistria (a Russian-occupied enclave within Moldova)."
Nosto.