Glenn Diesen – U.S. Think Tanks – Soft Power & Hard Power
Tremregi | 6 June 2023
Glenn Diesen, professor at South Eastern Norway University, regular contributor on RT, expert at Valdai Discussion Club and the St. Petersburg Economic Form discusses how the U.S. Think Tanks hijack EU policymakers; his new book: The Think Tank Racket-Managing The Information War with Russia; and how the U.S. uses its military in 90 countries around the world, sanctions and often military might to advance its interests around the world. Propaganda is really marketing. A fascinating discussion. Please see the Rand Corporation report of 2019, the National Endowment for Democracy, a cover for the CIA funded by Congress, and a host of NGOs involved in America’s effort to maintain its hegemony and unipolar dominance of the world. But, 85% of the world, led by Putin and Xi, are working feverishly towards creating a multipolar world based on the sovereignty of all nations.
Source: https://www.bitchute.com/video/gjeVWoYOAiZ2/
Overextending and Unbalancing Russia
Assessing the Impact of Cost-Imposing Options
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Below is the review article by Manlio Dinucci, first published by Global Research on 25 May 2019, which provides a summary of the Rand Report above:
According to their analysts, Russia remains a powerful adversary for the United States in certain fundamental sectors. To handle this opposition, the USA and their allies will have to pursue a joint long-term strategy which exploits Russia’s vulnerabilities. So Rand analyses the various means with which to unbalance Russia, indicating for each the probabilities of success, the benefits, the cost, and the risks for the USA.
Rand analysts estimate that Russia’s greatest vulnerability is that of its economy, due to its heavy dependency on oil and gas exports. The income from these exports can be reduced by strengthening sanctions and increasing the energy exports of the United States. The goal is to oblige Europe to diminish its importation of Russian natural gas, and replace it by liquefied natural gas transported by sea from other countries.
Another way of destabilising the Russian economy in the long run is to encourage the emigration of qualified personnel, particularly young Russians with a high level of education.
In the ideological and information sectors, it would be necessary to encourage internal contestation and at the same time, to undermine Russia’s image on the exterior, by excluding it from international forums and boycotting the international sporting events that it organises.
In the geopolitical sector, arming Ukraine would enable the USA to exploit the central point of Russia’s exterior vulnerability, but this would have to be carefully calculated in order to hold Russia under pressure without slipping into a major conflict, which it would win.
In the military sector, the USA could enjoy high benefits, with low costs and risks, by increasing the number of land-based troops from the NATO countries working in an anti-Russian function.
The USA can enjoy high probabilities of success and high benefits, with moderate risks, especially by investing mainly in strategic bombers and long-range attack missiles directed against Russia.
Leaving the INF Treaty and deploying in Europe new intermediate-range nuclear missiles pointed at Russia would lead to high probabilities of success, but would also present high risks.
By calibrating each option to gain the desired effect – conclude the Rand analysts – Russia would end up by paying the hardest price in a confrontation, but the USA would also have to invest huge resources, which would therefore no longer be available for other objectives. This is also prior warning of a coming major increase in USA/NATO military spending, to the disadvantage of social budgets.
This is the future that is planned out for us by the Rand Corporation, the most influential think tank of the Deep State – in other words the underground centre of real power gripped by the economic, financial, and military oligarchies – which determines the strategic choices not only of the USA, but all of the Western world.
The “options” set out by the plan are in reality no more than variants of the same war strategy, of which the price in sacrifices and risks is paid by us all.
Source: https://www.globalresearch.ca/rand-corp-how-destroy-russia/5678456
Extending Russia
Competing from Advantageous Ground
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The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) – 2019 Annual Report