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Under globalist influence RAND Corp scripted U.S. war policy against Russia in 2019:

March 28 (EIRNS)—In 2019, the RAND Corporation published a 354-page report entitled “Extending Russia: Competing from Advantageous Ground.” It is a script for a policy of geopolitical confrontation against Russia, intended to weaken and undermine Russia as a state, EIR reported at the time that the RAND synopsis of the report said it all: “As the U.S. National Defense Strategy recognizes, the United States is currently locked in a great-power competition with Russia. This report seeks to define areas where the United States can compete to its own advantage. It examines Russian vulnerabilities and anxieties; analyzes potential policy options to exploit them; and assesses the associated benefits, costs, and risks, as well as the likelihood of successful implementation.”

Many of the steps towards confrontation proposed in the report have since been taken by the United States, as Rick Sterling, a San Francisco area-based investigative journalist, shows in an article, “Rand Report Prescribed U.S. Provocations against Russia and Predicted Russia Might Retaliate in Ukraine,” in Dissident Voice. “Rather than ‘trying to stay ahead’ or trying to improve the U.S. domestically or in international relations, the emphasis is on efforts and actions to undermine the designated adversary Russia,” Sterling writes. The report, he continues, “notes that Russia has ‘deep seated’ anxieties about Western interference and potential military attack. These anxieties are deemed to be a vulnerability to exploit. There is no mention of the cause of the Russian anxieties: They have been invaded multiple times and had 27 million deaths in WW2.”

Sterling notes that among the provocations proposed in the report are the following:

“• Repositioning bombers within easy striking range of key Russian strategic targets

“• Deploying additional tactical nuclear weapons to locations in Europe and Asia

“• Increasing U.S. and allied naval force posture and presence in Russia’s operating areas (Black Sea)

“• Holding NATO war exercises on Russia’s borders

“• Withdrawing from the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.”

“These and many other provocations suggested by Rand have, in fact, been implemented,” Sterling writes. “For example, NATO conducted massive war exercises dubbed ‘Defender 2021’ right up Russia’s border. NATO has started ‘patrolling’ the Black Sea and engaging in provocative intrusions into Crimean waters. The U.S. has withdrawn from the INF Treaty.”

What the RAND report does, he says later, is assess the costs and benefits of various U.S. actions. “It is considered a ‘benefit’ if increased U.S. assistance to Ukraine results in the loss of Russian blood and resources. Speculating on the possibility of Russian troop presence in Ukraine, the report suggests that it could become ‘quite controversial at home, as it did when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan.’ ”

Peace, on the other hand, Sterling says, is considered “disadvantageous.” “A peace settlement that guaranteed basic rights for all Ukrainians and state neutrality in the rivalry of big powers, would be advantageous to most Ukrainians,” he writes. “It is only the U.S. foreign policy establishment including the U.S. military media industrial complex, and Ukrainian ultra-nationalists who would be ‘disadvantaged.’ ”

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Whoops! It looks like the US has shot itself in the foot but isn't that exactly what the globalists want?

I have the impression that globalism (if it succeeds) will be a unipolar world run by the WEF/UN - no exceptionalism required.... maybe the current financial war on Russia is cleverly designed to trap the bigger fish.... just a thought.

https://www.activistpost.com/2022/03/currency-wars-center-on-russias-gold.html

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