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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSecret Russian foreign policy document urges action to weaken the U.S.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/17/russia-foreign-policy-us-weaken/No paywall link
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Russias Foreign Ministry has been drawing up plans to try to weaken its Western adversaries, including the United States, and leverage the Ukraine war to forge a global order free from what it sees as American dominance, according to a secret Foreign Ministry document.
In a classified addendum to Russias official and public Foreign Policy Concept of the Russian Federation, the ministry calls for an offensive information campaign and other measures spanning the military-political, economic and trade and informational psychological spheres against a coalition of unfriendly countries led by the United States.
We need to continue adjusting our approach to relations with unfriendly states, states the 2023 document, which was provided to The Washington Post by a European intelligence service. Its important to create a mechanism for finding the vulnerable points of their external and internal policies with the aim of developing practical steps to weaken Russias opponents.
The document for the first time provides official confirmation and codification of what many in the Moscow elite say has become a hybrid war against the West. Russia is seeking to subvert Western support for Ukraine and disrupt the domestic politics of the United States and European countries, through propaganda campaigns supporting isolationist and extremist policies, according to Kremlin documents previously reported on by The Post. It is also seeking to refashion geopolitics, drawing closer to China, Iran and North Korea in an attempt to shift the current balance of power.
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Secret Russian foreign policy document urges action to weaken the U.S. (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Apr 17
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czarjak
(11,289 posts)1. Only since 1945 though?
Fake ruse, Right? Vlads glad, Suckers! Great Bear Of The North LIU.
crickets
(25,983 posts)2. Shocked, I tell you. nt
B.See
(1,277 posts)3. A policy "secret" only to those who've been living under a rock.
They may be updating, revising, and revamping the "plan" but Russia/Putin has had a plan to destabilize "the West" (and have been acting upon it) for decades now.