[Salon] Extending Russia: Competing from Advantageous Ground, or, How to Start a War, while Blaming the Other Guy

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Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2022 02:01:41 +0000

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Thread-topic: Extending Russia: Competing from Advantageous Ground, or, How to Start a War, while Blaming the Other Guy

Preface

This report documents research and analysis conducted as part of the RAND Corporation research project Extending Russia: Competing from Advantageous Ground, sponsored by the Army Quadrennial Defense Review Office, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff G-8, Headquarters, Department of the Army. The purpose of the project was to examine a range of possible means to extend Russia. By this, we mean nonviolent measures that could stress Russia’s military or economy or the regime’s political standing at home and abroad. The steps we posit would not have either defense or deterrence as their prime purpose, although they might contribute to both. Rather, these steps are conceived of as measures that would lead Russia to compete in domains or regions where the United States has a competitive advantage, causing Russia to overextend itself militarily or economically or causing the regime to lose domestic and/or international prestige and influence. This report deliberately covers a wide range of military, economic, and political policy options. Its recommendations are directly relevant to everything from military modernization and force posture to economic sanctions and diplomacy; consequently, it speaks to all the military services, other parts of U.S. government that have a hand in foreign policy, and the broader foreign and defense policy audience.

No surprise the CIA and US Special Operations forces are training “terrorists,” using the term the USG described Iraqi paramilitaries as, but it might surprise some to know we’ve been planning this military operation to “overextend” Russia militarily since at least 2015, if not before, and not restricting it to “nonviolent measures.” Reminicent of how we trained the Bay of Pigs invaders, and so many other “guerilla” forces, or if you prefer a post-9/11 US or WW II German designation: “terrorist forces.”

https://news.yahoo.com/cia-trained-ukrainian-paramilitaries-may-take-central-role-if-russia-invades-185258008.html

CIA-trained Ukrainian paramilitaries may take central role if Russia invades

Zach DorfmanJanuary 13, 2022

The CIA is overseeing a secret intensive training program in the U.S. for elite Ukrainian special operations forces and other intelligence personnel, according to five former intelligence and national security officials familiar with the initiative. The program, which started in 2015, is based at an undisclosed facility in the Southern U.S., according to some of those officials.

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