The Pentagon has long played up the idea of Russia posing a grave threat, and is looking to again this weekend, with a white paper accusing the United States in general of “underestimating” the threat Russia really poses.
The white paper accuses Russia of using disinformation to sway public opinion around the world, and also warns that an even greater threat would be posed if Russia and China see their interests unify.
The Pentagon therefore proposes, in a public enough way as to make actually carrying such a move out highly problematic, that the US State Department should engage in its own campaign meant to sew divisions between Russia and China.
The report also accuses Russia of believing it is already at war with the US, and that it is engaged in “hybrid warfare” against the US. This report comes just days after President Trump met with the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, about trying to improve relations, and not engaged in a costly arms race. Clearly the Pentagon are the beneficiaries of any arms race.
Quite strange report. It is ignorant , arrogant and cowardly.
It is ignorant, as the collaboration between Russia and China has been under way for a long time encompassing areas of science, military, space, infrastructure, foreign policy harmonizing, education, culture and trade.
It is arrogant, as it assumes that it will be easy to saw divisions— assuming Russia and China are stupid and inferior— incapable of crafting tactical and strategic policies. And that Russia has no right to promote its interests around the globe, as anybody else.
Cowardly, because it is not acknowledging areas of vulnerability. Maturity of Russia-China Shanghai Cooperation Organization, its members and their obligations are serious constraints within which US must operate. US cannot talk about being left behind in space, civilian nuclear energy, supersonic technology, missile technology, missile defense, submarine technology, icebreakers, new high heat resistant alloys, telecommunications, big data, AI, internet of things, even possibly quantum physics and mechanics. While some of these may not be difficult for US to catch up with, in others, time frames are not on the horizon. However, it is such a wide ranging field of technological gaps — that prioritizing is a must. Pentagon must live up to its name — defense, in the light if the gaps, and the need for prioritizing, how is the defense of homeland being insured?
From our point of view (regular Americans) you’re describing gross incompetence, and I believe fraud. From their point of view, I fear they’re practicing their core competence and doing it very well indeed.
Very good point. These are key characteristics of pagan societies. Pagans are happy when everything goes their way, and turn barbaric at the slightest threat to their self-defined domain. There are no concepts if morality in pagan world, even though they were capable of grasping the relationship between Hubris and Nemesis. But true pagans wallow in their self-righeousness, they have a deal with their God, who favors them for the eternity. So, yes, they are doing it right. Robert Kaplan wrote a manual on Pagan Ethos, making it rather clear that leadership requires brutal, self-centered approach to management.
US leadership, just like Kaplan — hoping to become a modern version of Machiavelli’s Prince — fail to read the lessons of history, including the very reason Christianity undermined the power of barbaric Roman Empire. Barbaric leadership believes to be God like, forgetting that their God like delusions hurt people who have entrusted them with their fate. Snd at times, even people become corrupted by the drunken giddiness of power and invulnerability. And the outcome is a mythical Babel, where God mixed up languages so nobody could understand each other any more. Or just plain Humpty Dumpty — whose entire existence was based on word acrobatics, and once it crashes in the bottom line of reality— nothing can put it back again. Paganism always eats itself from the inside.
Same old Red Scare rubbish from the Pentagon. It wants more money. It’s always about the benjamins.
Our beloved Pentagon showing its prowess at lobbying for more money and Information War. I have no idea how good they are at real warfare anymore.
I don’t see the threat…the US still has the wealthiest military investment recipients in the world ! #1……;?)
When all is stripped away, if Russia presents a challenge to vital US interests (those that ultimately could pose an existential threat) then Russia is a danger. Equally, if the US presents a challenge to vital Russian interests (those that ultimately could pose an existential threat) then America is a danger to them. There are certain positions governments cannot back down from.
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The U.S. has been menacing Russia ever since the fall of the Soviets. What the Pentagon is really worried about is that Putin has done a good job of running Russia, and he gets more bang for the buck on weapons development than the U.S. does. Russia just might be able to counteract U.S. aggression in a painful way for the U.S. That’s what bothers the MIC.
The reality is 100% the exact opposite.
Who would have thought Russia and China would unify against the North American Terrorist Organization .NATO . They partnered up 18 years ago after NATO destroyed Yugoslavia with many false flag attacks and persistent arial bombing until Yugoslavia was dismembered and separated into 5 or 6 little powerless Balkan states . The leaders that tried to protect Yugoslavia were arrested on trumped up false charges and tried as war criminals in the Hague political court . This was all done against the wishes of both China and Russia . and even formally agreed upon rules of international law . Wesley Clark the US. general commanding all NATO forces issued orders for the English soldiers to shoot the Russian soldiers because they might try to protect Orthodox Christian civilians . The English refused the orders because they did not want to start W war 3 .Non the less those orders stopped the Russians from protecting the Orthodox Christian civilians they had promised Milosevic they would protect . Those orders brought down Yeltsin’s government in Russia . Russia wanted a stronger leader someone strong enough to standup to NATO . The Russians selected Putin .
About this same time frame the United States accidently on purpose fired a missile into the Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia . Bill Clinton Claimed it was a accident . George Tenet admitted to the U.S. congress he picked the Chinese embassy for a target . I believe this is what China was talking about when they said they have not forgotten or forgiven what happened to them in Yugoslavia . Both China and Russia were humiliated in Yugoslavia as they did not feel strong enough to stand up to NATO to protect Yugoslavia . But for the last 18years or so they have been sharing all military technology and my bet they will stick closer together than the NATO countries .